Editing Shattered Lands/Azteconomics (section)

==Pochte==
Wealthy merchant houses, known as pochte, serve the noble houses, and handle their finances.  As a result, they are fabulously wealthy, but unable to publicly display this wealth.  They control the economy, set prices, and keep an eye on Draji citizens and slaves to assure that each is "kicking up" the appropriate portion of their acquired material goods to their noble houses.  Think of these pochtes as organized criminals, with the support of the state. They also don't have the same Xenophobia that most Draji do, since they - above all other groups - deal with foreigners on a more common basis.

===House Tsalaxa===
House Tsalaxa is the largest and best known of the Pochte Trade houses.  They have a well-earned reputation as being ruthless, underhanded, and relentless in their pursuits.