The Tradeswomen Syndicate
The Tradeswomen Syndicate, or simply the Tradeswomen, is an under ground criminal organization that began as a under ground black market in the late 1670s in the Metisian Republic. The organization began primarily as a large group of international sugar smugglers and rapidly grew into powerful criminal force within just a few decades.
History
The Tradeswomen Syndicate began following the restrictions on sugar imports into the Metisian Republic in the 1670s. After a wave of reports of forced labor and poor working conditions in the sugar plantations, mills, and refineries the Metisian public was in utter uproar. People began to refuse to buy products that contained cane sugars and even many products from the Middle Islands. The government's solution was to create a series of checks and evealuations that would investigate a sugar company and evaluate weather or not to approve its products for import into Metis.
Here is where the Tradeswomen come in. This raised the cost of sugar due to the increased tax to pay for the processing and red tape and allowed the approved sugar companies to raise their prices due to scarcity. Thus, the Tradeswomen saw an opportunity and donned the Metisian tradition of piracy. Stealling the sugar directly from the plantations and their ships, they were able to skip the new approval process and sell it on illegitimate markets in Metis for a much lower price.
This tendency to avoid government check ins continued well into the organization's history. The Tradeswomen are involved in a veriety of industries such as counterfit good, drug trade, and illegal weoponry. Often they allow their good to be made through child labor and will target low income communities in search for emplyees.
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