System: Turinge

[3067] Unfortunately, though intended to protect the rights of workers everywhere, some Lyran labor unions (and those in other realms, to be fair) have occasionally become a focus for organized crime. Because of their inherent clout as watchdogs over vital industries, larger unions tend to attract the attention of the mafia, yakuza or their local equivalents, leading to many cases where corruption in the union can grow so bad that the organization itself becomes more harmful to its members than corporate management could ever be.

In one recent case, the planetary court of Turinge sentenced the entire upper leadership of the local farm workers’ union, the Turingen Agro-Ranchers’ Association (TARA), to thirty years in prison apiece on charges of extortion, racketeering and embezzlement of union funds in association with the Brusikov Cartel. The charges came soon after Turinge’s planetary authorities successfully convicted “Don” Elijah Brusikov on nine counts of murder and conspiracy to commit murder, as well as a host of other crimes.

There are no functional factories located on this planet.