What opinions does the New Zealand woman express about normal people? How do these comments echo the very same problems in the attitudes of the normal people and the fringes people? How does she explain the causes of Tribulation?

The Sealand people are supposed to represent a more enlightened society but instead seem to represent similar narrowminded traits as people from Waknuk. David felt they sounded advanced but a little conceited and condescending.

We let her prattle on. It was difficult to make sense of a lot of the things she said, and possibly she had not got
them right, anyway, but the one thing that did stand out clearly was that these Sealanders, whoever and wherever they
were, thought no small beans of themselves. It began to seem more than likely that Rosalind had been right when she
had taken 'primitive' to refer to ordinary Labrador people.