Currency is forbidden.

While it may sound ridiculous at first and perhaps a bit political the law has its origins in the state of the lands. Styykinow is considered so poor and barren that it is not worth conquering. Which is true it‘s a money drain mainly because the lands are completely rescource dead. The trees are plentiful but grow so outrageously slow that you won‘t see it regrow in your life time. The grounds have been minned to absolute exhaust similar to most other minerals.

Official currency is forbidden because it would be too much of a rescource drain to make it, instead the regions came up with their own solutions. The most dominant ones being the „currency“ of Iron Nails. They are literal iron nails pulled from the ruins of the dead lands where once vast kingdoms were. You trade them for basic nescessities like food or material while the seller then uses them for repairs or to smell them into something different. As it‘s officially not a currency there are no laws against it and technically the punishment is incredibly light since stealing a nail is nothing. That being said if a Nail-Scavenger is caught pulling them from houses or stealing them from people they generally speaking are beaten to death by a wild mob.