Organised crime in Kiravia

Organised crime in Kiravia (Kiravic: Iskorvibalv Kiraviē) is a fairly pervasive phenomenon and has been a perpetual challenge for law enforcement throughout the modern era.

The vast majority of criminal organisations in Kiravia have an ethnic or caste basis.

Nightworkers, Gravediggers, and other Backward Kir
The largest and best-known organised criminal groups in Kiravia originate among the lower castes of the Kir people, the wordhere and the similarly positioned "village menial" castes.

Paisonic Mob
Ethnically Paisonic crime families are the second-largest, but perhaps most powerful organised criminal element in Kiravia.

Paisonic crime syndicates sit alone at the top of the food chain in Valēka and most other cities in Kiygrava and Niyaska, Primóra, and Vondor. They compete for dominance with the Nightworkers in Escarda and other industrial cities of the interior.

Ĥeiran Mob
Ĥeiran Coscivians were the face of modern, truly organised crime in Kiravia from its beginnings with the rise of industrial urbanism until the [DECADE]s, when fierce competition from Paisonic Mob and other groups wore down their dominance in most places. Ĥeiran crime families are still preëminent in Northeastern cities like Béyasar and Livern, and some smaller cities such as Glengarry-Glenross and Dēvlinsar. Historically, most Ĥeiran mobsters have been Æran Coscivians, with some members from other Ĥeiran subgroups or from Celtic-Kiravian backgrounds. In Valēka and Eriadun, Ĥeiran and Gaelic organised crime have more or less merged, whereas in Béyasar families with Ĥeldican Coscivian and Kiravian Gaelic members face competition from newer and more violent criminal groups organised among recent Gaelic immigrants.

Prison Gangs
See also: Incarceration in Kiravia

Prison gangs in Kiravia generally function as pragmatic alliances among the organised crime groups to which many of the most dangerous repeat offenders in the Kiravian prison system belong outside of prison, though they also induct previously unaffiliated inmates as members and have expanded their activities beyond prison walls.

Rural Organised Crime
Closely related to agrarian paramilitarism in Kiravia.