This is really interesting actually, it really puts Elysium into a new perspective for me.
Here they are worried about the Pale slowly eating away at their world, which of course they should be concerned about and from their perspective is very worrying! Yet from our perspective, even with that they must have many, many times more space than we do here on Earth. If our dynamic duo can spend an entire week conducting a stereo-investigation into the tiny little corner known as Martinaise, then in comparison to their entire world as they know it, Revachol and all the rest of the isolas as well, there must be so many people, all the sea, so much land, so much world out there to see.
Losing it is scary, but they have so much of it to live through yet. More than we do here on Earth anyway, and Earth is, to us, already so large and has so many diverse things to experience. Maybe if we could live on all the planets in our solar system and they all could contain life, maybe then we'd understand. If we could traverse the giant scale of Jupiter and Saturn, their many moons like little isolas, then maybe we could begin to glimpse what they have in Elysium.
I guess Mirova really is a world away. I didn't really get that before, I knew it was a lifetime away, but really, it really is so far too. Everything past Revachol must be such a distance apart, but even just Revachol itself must be so massive. No wonder the RCM are so devoted to it, it's like the connection humans have to Earth itself, it's more than just a home city, it might as well be everything for most of the citizens there. To hear a voice that is as much as all of Revachol really is like speaking to the world itself. "City" as we know the word is such an understatement here.