Princes Point

Princes Point was as lawless as the Anna Polis Seabank was civilized. An industrial maritime port in the Bailey of Dominus Columbia South, much smaller than the Seabank's twenty-five miles of docks, it was a place defined by what it lacked: no government, no law enforcement, no legal structure, no requirements of any kind. Ships that would not be allowed to enter more respectable settlements to the north could buy, sell, and trade their wares through illicit channels overseen by what could generously be called a criminal network. Slavers, weapons dealers, thieves, flesh peddlers, and merchants of every forbidden commodity operated in the open. The complete lack of restriction on the content and nature of trade was the settlement's only selling point.
  The structures matched the people. Hovels at best. The majority of the settlement consisted of temporary shelters and piles of scrap leaning against a small number of stone and earthen buildings. Both the buildings and the people showed the wear of existing in Princes Point: riddled with scarring from bullet wounds, covered in filth, bearing the visible distress of countless acts of depravity. The town and its residents shared an appearance of poverty and suffering that was difficult to tell apart.
  The population was not there by choice in any meaningful sense. When citizens of Dominus Columbia were found to be a danger to their area, their traveling papers and right to live there were revoked. Over time, as individuals burned bridges and failed out of more and more communities across the territory, the hovel of Princes Point became the only option left. There was no one to tell them they were not welcome. Thieves and murderers were as common as merchants. The unprepared often lost both their material wealth and their lives. Through this port the Darwinists of the J. Andrew Technology Enclave procured not only a large portion of their material goods but also a large number of their unwilling experimental subjects. The disappearance of the "unwanted" from this under-society drew less concern from civilized Dominus Columbia than the disappearance of regular citizens would have.
  Dominus Columbia's solution to Princes Point was neither conquest nor reform. The Undermaw, a tribe of Lascarians who held full citizenship in the settlement, had been given control of a number of underground bunkers and tunnels beneath the port. They had been given free rein to hunt and consume anyone who drew their attention within Princes Point. The rationale was simple: Dominus Columbia believed every citizen had a right to live as they chose, so long as they could do so without harming the greater populace. Those who traded in slaves, stolen goods, and dangerous materials had proven they could not. Rather than wiping out the port and causing its undesirables to congregate elsewhere, the authorities allowed the Undermaw to create a steady decline in the number of people considered problematic. Somewhere in the tunnels below, the Lascarians watched and waited. The criminals above rarely thought about what lived beneath their feet, and those who did tried not to think about it for long.