Editing Interstitial Peace Committee (section)

=== The Black Market ===

Being cut off from the multiverse and consigned to the Interstices is inconvenient: there's no fixed world to inhabit except what people have cobbled together out of the metaphysical detritus, and attempting to return to reality ends in tears before long as you're inevitably rejected by the universe. But where some might despair, others see an opportunity: the Incoherents (a term of art for the inhabitants of the Interstices) may not be able to return to their old lives, but they can visit many different universes that would otherwise be cut off from each other entirely.

That means its possible to buy goods cheap from a universe where they're plentiful, and transport them through the Interstices to another lacking them entirely. The potential for price gouging is monstrous. These traders have formed an underground society in the Interstices, separate from the IPC, called the Black Market. The IPC doesn't approve of exploiting reality like this, but their ability to secure resources is nowhere near the Black Markets' capabilities. Thus a miserable peace exists between the two groups, as the IPC lets the Black Market make their profit and live in luxury, while the Black Market restrain their members so as to not force the IPC's hand.