That's a frankly terrifying thought about a country of twenty million people. He might have to expand his hiring search outside Cheliax sooner than any person would have considered sane from a Security standpoint.
"All right, you know, if this is basically the best hiring pool we're ever going to get, let's go with trying all eleven except the bottom woman, and if all eleven seem to be working out great I'll suck up the rapid expansion and tell Maillol I'm sorry about having failed to correctly forecast my hiring needs."
"Actually, maybe ask the woman on the bottom of the ordering if she wants to try too despite my prior prediction being that she won't make it and what happens to her if she doesn't, maybe I'm just wrong about who's promising and somebody in Governance is right."