Isekai by Moonlight

[Bob Schroeck]

"Letting"? I had the impression it was more like requiring. And when a government requires people to have surnames, it's for keeping track of taxes.

As I may have mentioned on the boards in a different context, this is the reason the Dutch have family names -- when they got conquered/occupied by Napoleonic forces, they were required to so the French could track them better. As a result, they frequently took trolling or even offensive terms as family names under the assumption that they were going to be temporary anyway...