@anthracite not sure how to include kerri in the reply but the real reason is that it was a reference to a very obscure SNL sketch that had become a running joke between tris and me *shrug*
but the in-world reason i guess is that they're an ultra-modernist Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communist society that eats polyhedra flavored with numbered ester compounds or some shit
@anthracite this'un https://web.archive.org/web/20100105034810/https://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75wdeath.phtml