I always see such things as 2 roles.
1. Trader get taxed. Trader pay money. Rheinland receives cash.
2. Rheinland receives cash. Trader stays alive.
3. If trader refuse, trader die.
Getlemen, this is what pirates do. Have Rheinland become a state of criminals? What's with Daumann and Kruger? They have to pay fines too? I don't really get that reason for that traders will be fined now, cause they just do hard and fair mercantile. There's many danger out there for some reason. Do you give those peoples even escorts? Do you bear responsibility for that trades? You really care about those guys and girls who may travel trough hell to get their cash to survive in a harsh universe? Or is it just economic survival? Maybe 'Give money and you live'? And then asking why Rheinland is getting unattractive. That's funny.