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Knjaz, you're vastly underestimating the perilous situation Rheinland's economy is in, even before the IC fiasco. If you read the event news articles, you'll also see IC's shipping fleet withdrawing isn't what's causing the problems.
The problems are derived from the looming threat of financial services being withdrawn, which would cripple the house. That's loans as well as insurance. Currently the price adjustments are being caused by investor uncertainty on the stock markets and panic buying of goods.
Not to mention the fact that this situation was written in by the devs, specifically because there's a lore news article that details what would happen based specifically on this particular scenario. Looking at it that way, your 'nope' doesn't really work.