Cheerfully, "All right. So you are from Las Vegas, in the state of Nevada. In America, called the United States, of the world Earth. And I am from Gilead in the Barony of New Canaan, in In-World, called All-World. Do I have it?"

All-World-That-Was, nowadays. The Affiliation is gone, and the unity that Arthur Eld forged thirty generations ago is gone with it. But Alain has not quite adjusted to saying that, not yet.