Who gets the money?

[Inferno]

the lore of costs and fines and whatnot goes towards standard government things. Paying LPI, since they're a corp, general projects, terraforming, house defense, welfares, and so on. The stuff you expect a government to do. As for electing and decisionmaking, assume it's your classic federal republic that the US is doing. Or not, I actually don't know how it works, I'm paid to make sure it doesn't stop existing. To do what you are asking and making a checkbook for a multi-system supergovernment is to ask us to assemble an aircraft turbine engine with a couple of forks and a polished dinner plate, or something absurdly unreasonable to ask of something.


out of lore, the infinite supply of credits thrown at the LibGov account goes to funding the bounty board as well as the respective factions that can't exactly 'make money' playing as themselves. Aka, defense factions
The faction leaders of the (lawful) Liberty factions as well as their secondary leaders make up LibGov, and we vote in a democratic method, even though that sometimes is an annoyance. That's what gives us laws n stuff.
I don't know what the factions that do get paid do with their credits, but I know for a fact that it goes to equipment and, soon, my members as activity rewards, at least for my own faction.

also the 1.5 bil is better long run if you're an ore spot or something since it bypasses any monthly costs that you had to deal with