The funny thing was, I was talking about the story all the time to Wakanomori, and he totally heard "Raj" when I was saying "Radch"--and when I realized that, I asked Ann if that had been her intention, and she said no! But who knows how the subconscious affects one's word choice.

But yes, it's definitely our far future. In a part you'll get to, there's a joke about how difficult, or not, it is to find the home planet whence sprang all humans.