Inland, all except criminals lived in a tightly pulled net of regulations, duties, social standing, tax collection, expectations of how to act and speak and think-"sort of like late twentieth-century USA” Everard grumbled to himself. (Poul Anderson)

Inland, all except criminals lived in a tightly pulled net of regulations, duties, social standing, tax collection, expectations of how to act and speak and think-"sort of like late twentieth-century USA” Everard grumbled to himself.

Poul Anderson

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