Oshuria Principality, Fort Destiny.
Mrs. Merston, the Arrogant Killing Minister, had been in a good mood lately. Even the number of times she personally killed someone had dropped significantly.
However, that was not because she had suddenly changed her ways, but because there were barely any targets left whom she considered killable or potential enemy threats.
It was hard to say how many innocent lives had perished in the bloody storm she had stirred up. Yet ironically, after those people truly died, everyone discovered in surprise: the pollution was gone, public safety had improved, unemployment had been solved, corrupt officials and snide cowards had vanished, the social climate was astonishingly positive, and people's happiness had reached unprecedented heights.
Only then did people realize that the Arrogant Killing Minister's slaughter had not been senseless madness. Her methods had indeed been extreme, but the results were good.
There was a saying in the Abyssal Realm: what made you give up revenge was never despair, but hope for life.
Most people did not choose to break the law and commit crimes because of innate factors. Granted, certain ethnic groups had made quite a name for themselves in crime rates, but most of the time, crime required a calculation of costs.
The economy and profit—those were the root causes of crime.
When the economy was poor and social order was in disarray, gambling one's life for survival resources, trading blood for reward like a beast, became a perfectly natural reason to commit crimes.
But when the economy was doing well and the rule-of-law system was sound, people naturally felt that landing themselves in prison for a few hundred bucks was not worth it.
Therefore, for rulers, building a sound legal system and maintaining a normal economic environment was far more conducive to social stability