Chapter 223: Message from the Nest Capital World_2
It was evident that in the Empire's value system, human life had a price: merely the production value of five years.
Korolya III had over four hundred billion people, and the tax they had to pay each year reached 4.2 billion Tax Currency. More than half of that tax was satisfied through the exchange of population.
They would hand over five hundred million people each year to cover 2.5 billion Tax Currency; then, they would pay several billion more in industrial goods and processed foods. That was the structure of their tax payments.
Korolya III was poor and suffering, its people living in dire straits. But in reality, looking at the big picture, it was a powerful and wealthy planet.
The largest source of wealth was its four hundred billion population.