This is a place travellers usually avoid. Smoug is small, densely populated and miserable. The inhabitants live in tunnels and some tarnished domes. Severe mismanagement in the government has led to widespread poverty. The results are easy to see: The poor have created their warren of tunnels, ruled by gangs. Occasionally, a new leader arises among them, inevitably leading them against the priviledged in violent uprisings. But so far, the state has proven to be stronger. This is quite easy as only the police is allowed to wear weapons and possession of weapons of any sort is prohibited by law. The police go down very hard on display of weapons of any sort. The steak knife is not the most common murder weapon by chance either.
The government lets out only a small amount of people each local year, and these must face severe harassment - to the point of public humiliation by running the gauntlets to the starport. This leaves most emmigrants traumatized and seldom able to start a new life on other planets. The government sends agents after them to cover their story, leading to additional stress. All this serves as an additional deterrent for the citizens of the Citizen's Republic of Smoug, the CRS.
The priviledged employees of the state-owned corporations live in sealed domes and clean corridors. The actual digging work gets done by the worker class who get priviledge vouchers based on work load. With a good amount of sweat, workers can send their kids to the right schools and prepare them for recruitment. That is, barring emmigration, the only way to get out of the squalor.
There is a thriving black market with raw minerals taken from the Rat-Tunnels. Traders do this usually only on a last resort basis since the colonial navy comes quite hard down on those it gets. Nonetheless, a shipment of radioactives at the right time can pay an overhaul.
Smoug exports radioactives and heavy Elements.
Orbits:
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Orbit 2 F-23056C-8 Colony
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Orbit 3 XS00000-0 Asteroidengürtel
Orbit 4.2 AA00000-0 Captured
Orbit 4.9 C14078A-9 Captured; Mainworld
9 G423139-8
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Orbit 6 Large Gas Giant
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8 G35240D-8
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Orbit 7 Small Gas Giant
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