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West Pangasinan wrote:

"Yes, that is truly a surprising news to us, a Neko serving in such a high position. An inspiration for Neko-jinn rights activists in Pangasinan, and for the world as whole," Francisco replies, hoping to maintain his hosts attention by addressing the Maneiran prime minister, lest they notice the temporary shift in attitude of Col. Alonzo from the early comment made by President Kusuma. While it seems he has regained his composure, it's better to be safe than sorry. "Unfortunately, the status of Neko-jinn in Pangasinan is still a thorny subject, due to a combination of historical biases and religious opposition. Thankfully, hate crimes against them are almost non-existent, the few who do are mostly religious fanatics or the odd human supremacists. Maybe with the help of the current talks with a government featuring such a prominent Neko-jinn, we can finally break down the last barriers to integrate them into the wider society."

“It is rather sad that Neko-Jinns around the world are discriminated against, and especially our second closest neighbor, the backwater down south of Maneiras. Even though Maneiras is a muslim majority nation, we respect and tolerate the existence of other religion, species and ethnicities.” the president comments, he swipes again and the screen switches to the Sarya main avenue in the blistering ray of the sun at noon. Lively and full of people, the street is lined with stalls, storefronts, and even interspecies friend groups are seen. Some looked Usnistani, while others looked Nonsciscan. “Maneiras is built on the foundation of tolerance, and unity in diversity. Not because of an ideology, however out of necessity.”

The screen is swiped, and is now a graph of supply and demand with the timeline stretching into the late 1800s. “Here, we can see that before the year 1903 and the tolerance act, the economy of Maneiras have been rather stagnant with no rise in productivity or demand. Simply equilibrium, an equilibrium that equates to low unemployment, low demand and low productivity due to our lack of manpower. As before the act, Neko-Jinns are barred from employment outside of agriculture.” he then marked the graph, that then shows the line of demand skyrocketing after 1903. “Basically, we introduced a ton of manpower into the economy, give it some government incentives and a little debt crisis and the economy is industrializing. Manpower and brainpower shortages no more.”

He swipes again and its back on the brutalist building, it's noon in the footage, and students are entering and exiting the academy building. “Nowadays, we are advocating for the equal rights of Neko-Jinns, as an equal creature. Not just due to it being socially correct, it additionally gave us more brainpower and manpower to use, thus an educated and skilled labor pool.”

He swipes and the screen slides into a collage of footages, CCTV footages and photographs of CCTVs present in nearly every building corner, lightpole, or windows, with drones deploying and landing on rooftops of buildings, glinting the red glare of their camera. “And in preventing hate crimes, or any crimes for that matter. As the most monitored state in northern Orientalis as a whole, with 2 million security cameras, several dozen thousand of surveillance and pursuit drones, and thousands of online personnels be it private or in the police monitoring the internet. We have ensured that Maneiras is one of the safest nation to live in.”

“Not even a single person that has entered Maneiras or Maneiran onlinespace is undocumented.”