Abi
Abi asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

How did Barryar not have a population crisis after the time of isolation with scads more women escaping to freedom in other places? It seems like you wouldn't have to be a mercenary to get away, there'd be a thriving human trafficking operation going on like in the former Soviet block countries where women would rather be prostitutes or mail order brides to men in less heinous countries than to stay where they are.

Lois McMaster Bujold
I don't, really, have a 30-volume set of the Encyclopedia Barrayarica (with commentaries) in my garage, so readers are free to speculate about questions like this as best suits their needs. (They will anyway, I have discovered.)

Ta, L.

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