Organised crime in Kiravia: Difference between revisions

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

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

==Major Ethnic Crime Families==

The most powerful and institutionalised actors in Kiravian organised crime are the ethnic crime families. These groups sit at the apex of the criminal underworld in any given city, undertaking the most sophisticated and diversified criminal activities, accumulating the most wealth and political influence, and enjoying supremacy over other forms of criminal organisations, with which they have a complex web of interrelationships. The crime families are hierarchical and disciplined organisations with a high degree of intergenerational continuity. They have well-developed financial operations and money-laundering schemes, and are increasingly involved in white-collar crime and often have relationships with legitimate businesses.

===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. During the industrial era, many people from lower-caste backgrounds fled the rigid social structures of rural Kirav to seek better lives in the cities, but found themselves still at the bottom of the economic ladder and often turned to criminal enterprise after being shut out of legitimate opportunities for advancement.