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How can money work if there is no monetary system? Who makes those gold coins in skyrim who pursutes adulterators where is a 'federal bank', exchanges (weren't those pharmacists in the middle ages?). If money isn't aligned to poltical power that grants value stability how it comes that it is even used as a currency? How can there be trade on monetary basis if there is no tax no - from what do all those jarls live, how can they produce economy? If so - I would exchange my sabre cat pelts not for coin but for food, ingridents, ore directly. At least Khajit, Imperials and Stormcloaks would go for their own monetary system. What kind of currency that would be - they would share? They would have their own mint and there would be money transports with guards and bandits who try to steal. The would be some of those 'Robin Hood' like quest - steal from the rich and give it to the poor - there would be social differences between the courtly world, the nobility and the inferior people. But all of them - they earn nothing and spend nothing. It's obvious that a feudal system could only exist if there where taxes on trades - taxes on land and where are taxes on trades there would be smuggling and deception. O.k. - there is a political conflict, there are creatures and cultists - these make sense to me, the conflicts are obvious. But apart from them - there is social harmony over all skyrim - no rich, no poor - you can commit crime only against people and property, but you can't commit a crime against civil order or authority. Are there laws in Skyrim? I'm not shure - there is human live and property. But laws like 'you aren't allowed to pee on the city streets' or 'you aren't allowed to ride your horse inside of Dragonsreach' - some kind civil order doesn't exist in skyrim. So the crime system in Skyrim is very poor: Steeling an Killing, that are the only bad things you can do. That's what guards care about, that seens all a jarl cares about. He absolutely does nothing for economics. In my hometown they make me even pay a fee for my horse - I mean, for my car. I need licences for everything and so on. All these 'civi order things' are completely absent in skyrim. Those reaches in skyrim they are a complete fake. They exist out of nothing, on no economic or juidical base. How can jarls have power or influence? So citizens couldn't even say 'let's kick out the jarl'. kick him/her out of what? He demands nothing from them. all he does is sitting in his house (some bigger, some smaller) and waiting for the dragonborn to hire him. He solves a problem here and a problem there - well he's more than a democrat, he's some sort of development aid volunteer. And he pays me even well and I would be courious to know how he finances all this efford. There is no real social structure in skyrim - there are only clothes to fake as if there were a social structure. But nobles don't have any privilegs. If the poor man in skyrim goes to an inn - he gets drink and a bard playing. The nobels in their palasts - they have no exotic dancers around or some buffons, juggler - well all those things you see in movies that makes nobles to be nobels - in Skyrim? Nada, rien. They may have a servant or a crabby court magician. But then - what does a court magician the whole day? Most of the jobs in skyrim are more interesting than beeing a jarl. With no economic system without to settle laws and to care for civil order ... well he do what he does ... sitting there and waiting for the player to show up. Well if there was a modding issue left for skyrim - me, personally, I would say - please dear modders - put some sense in a jarls life. Make them something more 'jarlish'. Thank you for reading.