Apostles of the Enlightenment

Today, a most unusual group of people arrived in our capital asking for an audience with our our ruler. The leader of the group introduced himself as the representative of an institution of learning in a faraway land. They state that their mission in our lands is to document, measure and categorize our plants, wildlife and society. They wish to learn everything they can about our country and then take this knowledge elsewhere so that others may compare what they find to other parts of the world. It is quite clear that these are men of learning and that we could probably put some of that knowledge to good use. If we allow them to travel our lands as freely as they wish, however, we risk dangerous intelligence falling into the hands of what may well be foreign spies...