16-02-2026, 10:41 PM
Smuggling In Medina
The Dovani Economic Report
Smuggling in Medina is a significant problem that is affecting the country and its economy negatively. Illicit goods plays have infiltrated many sectors of the economy, with many citizens participating in the black market to buy various illicit goods. The illicit market spans various items, such as consumer goods, fuel, energy and technology, all the way to weapons and drugs.
The contribution of illicit trade to the country's economy has increased over the last few years due to the insurgencies and resulting economic downturn. The war with the insurgents has resulted in many goods becoming more difficult to obtain. In particular, the communist insurgency has resulted in oil and other forms of fuel becoming scarce, as the areas affected by the insurgency are the areas responsible for a significant part of the energy needs of the country. As a result, the illicit trade of fuel has increased to being responsible for the procurement of around 45% of the country's energy needs. It is likely this number will rise as long as Medina does not find a new source of cheap fuel, internal or external. There has also been a noted increase in the price of food as result of the Abadiist insurgency in the largely agricultural west.
The government has in the past maintained a relaxed attitude to the sale of illicit goods in the country, with elements of government even relying on it for procurement of goods that are more expensive on the legal market. However it has recently begun to take initiative against the trade, through increasing funding for security forces and cracking down on officers and army members complicit in the drug trade. The government has been working on establishing a policing force to deal with it, it believed that it will be announced soon.
Many of the smuggling routes on land are on the Yerrawa border, with the two countries sharing a large and generally unguarded border. These routes are mostly under the control of various gangs headquartered in some of the larger in land cities. The profitability and efficacy of these routes has taken a sever hit after the rise of the insurgents however, as both the ACP and ALA have taken a generally hardline stance against black marketeers. The production of various drugs, grown in the fertile Perin region, has been increasingly targeted by members of the ALA whom have decried the drug trade and corrupt and vowed to crack down on it and the people profiting from it. The same can be said of the ACP, which, in the name of the common good, has also been fighting against the various gangs in the area, as they consider them capitalist exploiters to be shot on sight. Both of the organizations have received increased support from the citizens as a result of this stance. These factors have resulted in the illicit trade being less conducted in the affected regions.
The Illicit trade has gained numerous new routes however on the waterways. These new routes have resulted in the increase in illicit trade and the rise of new bandit groups. The transport of illicit goods across the waterway is made especially hard due to the woeful lack of equipment for the Sea Patrol.
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The Dovani Economic Report
Smuggling in Medina is a significant problem that is affecting the country and its economy negatively. Illicit goods plays have infiltrated many sectors of the economy, with many citizens participating in the black market to buy various illicit goods. The illicit market spans various items, such as consumer goods, fuel, energy and technology, all the way to weapons and drugs.
The contribution of illicit trade to the country's economy has increased over the last few years due to the insurgencies and resulting economic downturn. The war with the insurgents has resulted in many goods becoming more difficult to obtain. In particular, the communist insurgency has resulted in oil and other forms of fuel becoming scarce, as the areas affected by the insurgency are the areas responsible for a significant part of the energy needs of the country. As a result, the illicit trade of fuel has increased to being responsible for the procurement of around 45% of the country's energy needs. It is likely this number will rise as long as Medina does not find a new source of cheap fuel, internal or external. There has also been a noted increase in the price of food as result of the Abadiist insurgency in the largely agricultural west.
The government has in the past maintained a relaxed attitude to the sale of illicit goods in the country, with elements of government even relying on it for procurement of goods that are more expensive on the legal market. However it has recently begun to take initiative against the trade, through increasing funding for security forces and cracking down on officers and army members complicit in the drug trade. The government has been working on establishing a policing force to deal with it, it believed that it will be announced soon.
Many of the smuggling routes on land are on the Yerrawa border, with the two countries sharing a large and generally unguarded border. These routes are mostly under the control of various gangs headquartered in some of the larger in land cities. The profitability and efficacy of these routes has taken a sever hit after the rise of the insurgents however, as both the ACP and ALA have taken a generally hardline stance against black marketeers. The production of various drugs, grown in the fertile Perin region, has been increasingly targeted by members of the ALA whom have decried the drug trade and corrupt and vowed to crack down on it and the people profiting from it. The same can be said of the ACP, which, in the name of the common good, has also been fighting against the various gangs in the area, as they consider them capitalist exploiters to be shot on sight. Both of the organizations have received increased support from the citizens as a result of this stance. These factors have resulted in the illicit trade being less conducted in the affected regions.
The Illicit trade has gained numerous new routes however on the waterways. These new routes have resulted in the increase in illicit trade and the rise of new bandit groups. The transport of illicit goods across the waterway is made especially hard due to the woeful lack of equipment for the Sea Patrol.