Eronite law is more concerned with keeping public order than protecting individual rights, so guards often do not get involved in street-level crime when it doesn’t pose a significant political or economic threat. Because of this, the wealthy can often get away with hiring those brave or desperate enough to risk their lives for money to do their dirty work. Becoming a smuggler, mugger, or assassin is an enticing prospect for the republic’s most underprivileged, and if skilled enough can be one of the best options to pull themselves out of poverty. Many tribes will even recruit officially recognized agents from the streets, and it is rumored that some chieftains’ most trusted praetorians were once lowly thieves (though it would be unwise to suggest so to their faces).