[when scien talks about other people who are still alive, he normally is doing so to make fun of them or asking for the bare minimum updates on their existence

he decides that this is too much serious contemplation about someone who isn't around to give their own input]

I'm very sure that the royals of my country wouldn't be able to hold their own in a war, and since I don't care to ever get involved in that level of massacre and headache, we'd probably fall to ruin if we had to deal with international affairs.

It's just another reason to be content in our isolation for now.