UnitOmega wrote:

EDIT Here's the relevant passage, for future reference:

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KRON KARTELYEI˘ The flow and use of the Titanian kroner is heavily regulated in a way designed to encourage investment in Plurality-chartered microcorps. It’s a currency that is invested but rarely spent. Loopholes exist, however, and several semi-legitimate banks specialize in exploiting them. Once kroners move out of the microcorp system, they’re real money, a liquid asset. Sometimes desperate Titanians needing credits in other parts of the system make deals with these banks (many of which go badly for the person trying to change their money). Other times, the Kartelyeı˘ are involved in what amounts to little more than wire fraud. They’re red market operations, often with their central hubs located in places like Phelan’s Recourse or Extropia. Short of sending Labor and Finance Ministry strike teams to exact vendettas against the Kartelyeı˘, there’s little that can be done about their operations. The Kartelyeı˘ do have agents on the ground. Few have ever been charged successfully with involvement in money laundering; Kartelyeı˘ VPNs are a tough hack. The Kartelyeı˘ are largely of Russian or Ukrainian ethnicity and, in addition to banking, run almost all of the chess boxing leagues (legitimate and otherwise) on Titan.