Status Updates From Die wandernde Erde

So in "For the Benefit of Mankind" we get a more interesting protagonist and set up, but it's all ultimately in service to being an audience for an extended exposition of the author's Big Idea.

And then we had our next stock character, The Provincial Who Comes To The Big City And Never Complains About Anything Because He's Too Gobsmacked By The Wonders All Around Him.