Nakahama

"You are still in the Empire," Sorato says, a hint of laughter in his voice. "Not among the Karushan aliens. Not even a frontier colony. Though maybe you'd find that wasn't so bad, either."

"Even when we were confined to a single world," Kazushi retorts, shaking his head, "there was a marked difference between life in the capital - or other large cities - and life in the provinces. I expected that the same would hold true now, perhaps even more so given the interstellar distances involved and the alien lands we've claimed and terraformed."