Out of those eleven billion people perhaps seven billion lived where polygamy is legal, and Stu’s opinion manipulators played up "persecution"; it gained us sympathy from people who otherwise would never have heard of us—even gained it in North America and other places where polygamy is not legal, from people who believe in "live and let live." All good, because always problem was to be noticed. To most of those bee-swarm billions Luna was nothing; our rebellion hadn’t been noticed.