[He eagerly nods along.]

That's what I thought! I met two other countries like you on the last world I visited that had a calamity to deal with, Việtnam and France.

[Never mind him casually revealing that he's crossed the multiverse before, the point is that he knows how country people work!]

I didn't talk about this in-depth with either of them, though. I just thought that it had to be hard for you to be away from your land and your people.