It also happened at this time that the financial sector of Zato’s society had become a giant raping machine operated by laughing bankers who preserved their condition by rotating their personnel in and out of the government ostensibly responsible for regulating them, the integrity of which government suffered mightily, as you can imagine. The laughing bankers who were laughing all the day at the bank had every delusion they deserved top honours in an upside-down system. The siphoned from the productive sectors of society as much wealth as they could connive to entitle to themselves, draining away the value of actual work and injecting it into their own pockets. Magical paper financial assets ballooned in price, while payment for labour sank to the bottom of the tank.