Another cheery shrug. "You could be not from Earth, then," he says. "Say you're from - hm - Georgios-5. A planet about six wormhole jumps from here. No one could call you on it except for those with some Galactic education, which consists of Miles, Sonia, and Olivia. Or say that your version of alternate-universe Earth does still have aristocrats - that doesn't seem so hard to believe. That after the collapse of civilization, they built it up into a neo-feudalist form, just like happened on Barrayar. No one will question it."