After the outbreak of war, the benefits acquired by the Northern Alliance through governance made everyone green with envy, while also revealing the foresight behind the Alliance securing its ruling power.
Apart from the influx of refugees into the Free World and the substantial taxes filling the Northern Alliance's coffers, the gathering of blockade-running ships, smuggling ships, and pirates also brought unprecedented trade levels to the Free Port. Every day, the Free Trade Hall handled transactions worth billions and trillions, indicating only one thing—the Northern Alliance's profits.
More importantly, when trade, taxes, transport, defense, law and order, and port management are all concentrated in the hands of a single organization, the benefits that organization's industries can reap are beyond estimation.
Even if these powers were nominal for many years beforehand.
