| From: | Pierre-Alexandre Garneau <paganator@*********.COM> |
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| Subject: | Information about Amazonia |
| Date: | Fri, 9 Jan 1998 10:59:54 -0500 |
of interest in the cyberpirates sourcebook. All the useful information
can be found in these two posts about why there ain't piracy around
amazonia: ((c) 1997 Fasa and all that...)
(>) What about Amazonia? Nobody ever mentions them. They've got
everything a pirate's looking for---restrictive government, a large
population with a history of instability, magic and natural resources up
the hoop. Does anyone go there?
(>) Laser
(>) Amazonia takes restricitive government to an extreme. I don't know
anyone who's gone into the interior, and I know few who've spent time in
the country at all. Everything I hear says play it straight--go as a
tourist if you want, but crime pays better elesewhere. If you must
pirate there, stick to northern coastal villages. They're fighting with
Aztlan, so some people buy contraband guns, but often buyers one month
disappear the next. Personally, I don't think it's worth it. All they've
got are drugs (which we do better and cheaper) and magic (which Africa's
got in bucketloads, without a three-dragon-backed government to protect
it).
(>) Big Haul Bones
I think the part on the restrictive government (to the extreme) and the
three-dragon-backed governement parts are what should interest you
mostly. They did change my perception of Amazonia when I read it.
There's virtually nothing else of interest about Amazonia in the rest of
the book, except there-is-a-lot-of-trees type of comment. The more I
read about amazonia, the less I know about it...
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PaG
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