the thing about city RPs is that the very basis of the economy is based around being as huge a richard to your fellow man as possible
if you're a policeman, you have to go around and basically mute, contain, demean, and then taunt (or at least, allow to be taunted) people who are literally just doing their job
if you're a robber, you have to go around and steal money from people who are just doing their agonizing, boring job of waiting for money to appear
if you're not either of the above, you have to wait for money so you can join either of the above jobs
if you've managed to amass enough money to become an official/godfather/whatever, good job: now you have the means to be an even starfish to everyone because you are the best at being an starfish
and the worst part is, as an official, you will have people asking for pardons n stuff and you can basically just jerk them around and send them on ridiculous-ass ego quests (or just demean themselves) so people have to tolerate your assholism if they want to get what they want (which may or may not have been brought around by other people being an starfish to them)
there is nothing that doesn't boil back to someone being an starfish to someone else
