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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[The Culture] What are the Idirans doing after their defeat by the Culture?
gpt
Some commit suicide, others join the Culture, others just work for it. They are all Watched.

Individual Idirans are able to do what they like. Some commit suicide, some join the Culture, others just work for it.

The ability of the Iridians to wage war is removed when their AIs are upgraded to super-intelligence. Now that their technology gets a say in what happens, it would need to consent to any further aggressive actions.

So the Culture has done what it does, or at least wants to do, to all civilizations it meets: Turn them into a version of itself.