Wang Yue had originally wanted to ban gambling altogether, but considering that some of Old Xu's military funding came from casinos, he had decided against it.
However, the large number of gamblers was also affecting stability in the Nawa region, so Wang Yue suggested that Old Xu move those businesses to the Golden Triangle.
Since the area lay along the border, clearing out the flour trade had left it without a distinctive industry.
With tourism thriving everywhere, there would always be visitors who couldn't resist trying their luck a few times. It was still much better than having casinos scattered all over the place.
Old Xu thought it was a good idea, too. With a flick of his hand, he pulled off a grand relocation and tossed this sweet burden onto Devil Island in the Golden Triangle.
The many casinos there modeled themselves after Las Vegas and operated quite respectably, bringing the ruined Devil Island back to life.
While the Multilateral Cooperation Organization brought in economic revenue for the three regions, the Anti-Crime Cooperation Organization had also achieved remarkable results across the four regions.
Over the past two years, it had cracked down on all kinds of crime more than thirty thousand times, helping stabilize the situation in each region.
This was especially true after the automated screening system was set up. Anyone caught on camera in the four regions could quickly be identified as either a threat or not.
Once someone had been flagged, escaping arrest was practically impossible, because the joint policing system had adopted drones from the Nawa region.
Whenever the drones spotted criminals, they immediately began tracking them, leaving the fugitives with nowhere to run, whether in the sky or on the ground.
With criminals being arrested in large numbers, word spread that they couldn't stay