[quote=@Dinh AaronMk]
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So my biggest comment I have to make is that between the time the Gaülletics arrived and now, the Merchant's Monopoly would have most likely taken over any organized trade by Kur-Myrthina. While I'll offer a bone that Kur-Myrthinians could be members of the Monopoly, or have residents who work for it; it does not really equal the same trade networks as possible and if anything they'd just have the ability to make send a little bit home skimmed off the top. Most likely in the times between then and now, the old trade infrastructure would have broken down along the lines of independent actors and not entirely dependent on being from a single location, and mostly trading in the general economic production of the region, and not high-luxury items. Because it otherwise seems that the kingdom is moving on a momentum of trade that would have disappeared.

Their religion causes them to covet luxury goods.
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My idea is that the independent Myrese trade networks were confined to the shallow coast and rivers of Mycoria and after the arrival of the Empire all of that infrastructure would have been ceded to them immediately. The fact that they use flat-bottomed shallow boats similar to (scaled up versions of) Chinese Sampan meant their networks were unsuitable for trade outside the province anyway. I'll leave the degree of their involvement in Imperial trade networks up to you at any rate -  the point isn't really that the kingdom is rich, only that its aristocrats and priests are. I'll hopefully be able to show the destitution of its 'impious' common people.