No, I'm not against stimulating a flagging economy. But with the new trade routes and mining runs, the economy in-game is anything but flagging. If they wanted to, official factions could easily gather the money to pay governments to protect them. The problem here is that the lawfuls should already be protecting lawful faction members. So an increased bank account to pay the governments to do so would not be a reward for the official factions nor a curb to ooc violations. It's a nice idea for expanded roleplay, but I cannot see it helping solve the problems we face here.
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