"Guess we're off to Tempest….?" he wasn't fully convinced himself, but the truth was that Nate genuinely didn't have anything more to do in Linto. His plans for the kingdom were far more complex than simply ordering or firing a few people. He planned to make the waste management system better, he had ideas for using the unused crop remains or other waste products. While these were very rough, all of this was sketched up in a single day.
For example, simply using the trash in landfills was a bad idea, of course, a lot of these ideas were also generated or inferred to from reality. It was 2076 outside in the real world, and inside the world of Genesis, a place where the concept of time was rather shaky, there was no way there could be a properly functioning waste management in place.