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Thalasus wrote:

According to NS you have a much bigger black market than I do and I am personally offended

Drugs may be legal in Thalasus, but we're a narcostate (among other things).
More pragmatically, it's because apparently state-owned industry doesn't actually seem to run anything in NS, since every time any sector of my economy grows, the black market grows right alongside it.
Probably the moment I privatize everything, the black market will collapse.
Which would deeply disappoint the corporate nobility, because now the plebs would own things.
I mean, not that the plebs don't own things, but when they own enough things, we have a little sit-down and 'discover' genealogical records indicating they were nobility all along.
It's a win-win system.