Extraterrestrial Refugees - where would they choose / be welcomed to settle?

[tenyari]

(Hopefully this topic won't get 'political'. If it does, then please move it. But hopefully we can just list some places.)

This is for my current inwork story series. Hoping to publish in August. To pick where to place my Aliens. I think this topic fits in 'Story Ideas' and not the Author Hangout but I wasn't fully sure...

So you've just arrived in orbit around Earth and you've got 1 million refugees from the destroyed Home Planet with you. There's no going back.

Where do you settle?

The question I have is, help me pick ten countries a pack of Alien refugees will choose to settle in.

These are their criteria:

This is NOT a "these need to be 105% perfect" list. Rather it's about "who does decently better than their neighbors on these things?"

• Good human rights record.
• Welcoming of refugees who come from very different ethnic groups
• Open to diverse sexualities.
• Either secular and accepting of religious diversity or religious and accepting of secularism.
• Not militarily adventurous.

Basically they want to settle somewhere friendly where they'll be welcome and not stuck fighting or being attacked.


The Aliens:

Somehow sexually compatible with humans (this is for an erotica story after all, so these are "Star Trek Aliens" and not scientifically logical aliens).

For 'erotic comedy' reasons the aliens are basically like horny naked humans in funny colors.

For story reasons I've already selected two "middle class" highly diverse countries of Canada and Mexico. They originally land in Mexico simply because they see one of the planet's largest cities has a lot of open area around it in case they have to settle away from the locals. The large city choice means their landing will be public (and sets up the initial comedic moment).

Looking for more places, and figure if I can get it to ten more I'll have a good list for 'background filler' and 'future stories'.

So far when I google a lot of places I thought would be great, I come back with problems on that list.

 

[sirhugs]

Canada has lots of space,I mean room.
Just no havng them mate with the mooose.

 

[NewOldGuy77]

Norway. They only have a population of 5.5 million, less than the Chicago metro area in the US, and if the TV series Ragnarok portrays the culture accurately, are extremely open to alternative lifestyles/sexuality.

 

[NewOldGuy77]

Canada has lots of space,I mean room.
Just no havng them mate with the mooose.

Weighing up to 1700 pounds, 7 feet tall at the shoulders, deadly antlers AND they can swim, yeah, mating with a moose is a BAD idea!

 

[LupusDei]

Seconded to Norway, or northern Europe in general.

Eastern Europeans may be famous for being notoriously racist, but are so in a slightly different ways, and wouldn't be more racist to colorful aliens wanting to walk around nude than to anyone else like closest neighbors or own minorities, even less so if not feeling threatened to be overwhelmed by them. Small countries would seemingly mean you can't dump in too large numbers and hope to easily integrate, but if you seek to establish semi-independent colonies that may be even easier than elsewhere, due not in small part to poor and helpless governments. Maybe even more so if you established favorible contact with EU structures early on.

You may even secretly land in Russia, there's plenty of space and locals may generally not mind too much eiter, but it won't be completely conflict free and you definitely do not want to deal with authorities there, and writing that realistically would need special knowledge basically not accessible or even comprehensive to outsiders.

 

[RicoLouis]

I think you might need to explore there biology a little. What is there home world like? If its super hot they would want to settle near the equator and may not have the same human standards in regards to clothing or they could be nocturnal not going out in the sun during the day. While if its cold they may have a desire to settle somewhere like Norway or Canada such where the summers don't get as warm but could have less social taboos as there communities are more tightly clustered together for survival. Are they aquatic or amphibious in nature in which case they would want to live in a coastal region? Or are they just copy and paste humans?

 

[LupusDei]

The easiest way to get human-like aliens is to assume they are humans indeed, just stolen from earth some time ago (humans as species are around for 2M, and virtually indistinguishable art performing varieties no less than 80K years), but affected by the different culture of the host species and probably undergone some biologic adaptation, likely guided by the same.

The alien human population can have been arbitrary large as there's few biological limitations to human breeding, you can easily have tens of billions in a handful of centuries. The original host aliens may have been completely replaced even before or went extinct with their planet, or continue to live within the now human-formfactor dominated society, perhaps literally within said humans, maybe in microbial form.

Then, the alien humans may have never worn any clothing throughout their history, and be as offended by the idea of routinely wearing armour (what any clothes are in their perception) as some of us by social nudity.

 

[tenyari]

I think you might need to explore there biology a little. . . . Or are they just copy and paste humans?

So the story I'm working on is a bit of an 'erotic comedy' where the aliens are almost identical to humans in many way. They're your "this show has a very low budget so just put green makeup and rubber antenna on that actress" variety of TV alien.

They are limited to 'CMNF' - half of them are stuck Nude on Earth, so they seek warmer climates at first as 'for story reasons' most of their tech doesn't survive the journey. A lot of the warmer climate parts of Earth have been conflict zones for a while - thus complicating my thinking.

I'm writing this story to purposefully put myself into more silly erotica than what I used to write when I was active 20 years ago. So my alien refugees need to be somewhere I can play things for a little humor. It's basically "My new neighbor is a hot naked alien girl from Planet XXX", rather than say... Alien or District 9

 

[Carnevil9]

Texas.

The vast majority of Texas is empty, unusable space. Give them a few million square miles that are otherwise going to waste, and they'll never have to see a native Earthling if they don't want to.

And it's hot enough that they will be glad that they are naked.

 

[Probus888]

Not Britain! Despite our recent heatwave of a few days it's gone back to cool and rainy again. Total passion killer. However, I've never been but how about Argentina? It's got a lot of space and I think northern Argentina is warm and pleasant.

 

[tenyari]

... long story summary deleted ...

TL : DR:

On another forum I asked this same question and people kept insisting everywhere in the world was bleak, the aliens would invade or be dissected, and so on and so forth, so I posted up a long background to explain what I was asking and why and trying to rely that my plan was for a happy outcome not a dystopian nightmare...

Nobody here has derailed in that direction, so that long "rant" isn't needed here.

 

[SteelPoint]

Somewhere in a galaxy far, far away, there's an erotic story writer who keeps writing fanciful stories about these weird creatures with a head, two arms and two legs who might visit them from outer space one day and mate forcibly with the poor, helpless, tentacled locals.

The tentacled writer keeps getting told by its tentacled readers that such a thing is utterly preposterous and that the more it keeps writing these stories, the more bored readers get because they simply can't empathise, there being no rooting of the tales in their everyday reality. They can't suspend their disbelief. Tentacles are sexy. Fingers and toes aren't. Boring, boring...

The writer boldly carries on, boldly writing what no tentacled writer has ever written before, losing readers with yawns on their fanged and tentacled faces by the hundred with each successive chapter... but convinced in its own mind that one day recognition will come...

 

[Magineer]

Good one!

 

[LiverpoolMaster]

Somewhere in a galaxy far, far away, there's an erotic story writer who keeps writing fanciful stories about these weird creatures with a head, two arms and two legs who might visit them from outer space one day and mate forcibly with the poor, helpless, tentacled locals.

The tentacled writer keeps getting told by its tentacled readers that such a thing is utterly preposterous and that the more it keeps writing these stories, the more bored readers get because they simply can't empathise, there being no rooting of the tales in their everyday reality. They can't suspend their disbelief. Tentacles are sexy. Fingers and toes aren't. Boring, boring...

The writer boldly carries on, boldly writing what no tentacled writer has ever written before, losing readers with yawns on their fanged and tentacled faces by the hundred with each successive chapter... but convinced in its own mind that one day recognition will come...

Sledgehammer satire but, yes, it seems we can't rid ourselves of all the aliens, goblins, ray guns and hobbits, much as though that would be desirable. Some minds are just fixated, I guess.

 

[sirhugs]

Sledgehammer satire but, yes, it seems we can't rid ourselves of all the aliens, goblins, ray guns and hobbits, much as though that would be desirable. Some minds are just fixated, I guess.

and some just want to have fun.
Like when I shook up the LW tropes by having the wife fucked by a tentacle monster not by hubby's bff. I paid the price (but I enjoyed writing it anyway).