Nagariel is very poor.
Before confirming this issue, there is another question: how poor must one be to be considered very poor?
In Nagariel, at least twenty to thirty percent of people have never owned a banknote of their own from birth to death.
It's difficult for people to calculate how much income an ordinary person has in a year because most of their income is traded through barter, and these are all essential goods that are quickly consumed in their daily lives.
By the end of the year, their home might just have some stocked food, extra clothes, or a sturdy patch on a leaking roof, and that's it. That's all they have.
Yet the ruling class lives a life comparable to the upper echelons of some developed countries, an indulgent lifestyle, as evidenced by the gold-trimmed table in front of the Provincial Governor.
It's not just him who is wealthy; the merchants serving the ruling class are also rich.
