Slavery

Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold as commodities. During the decades after the Great War, the buying and selling of slaves became a lucrative business for those with loose morals. Although many communities have outlawed slavery, the practice persists throughout the wasteland.

The slave trade is a very profitable yet specialised business, as most people in the wasteland are already perfectly willing to work in slave-like conditions in order to simply stay alive. As such, the only people actually worth enslaving are either exceptionally beautiful, have particularly useful skills, or have bizarre mutations.