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Of course, this means that only the upper classes of the population seeking to flaunt their social status are drawn to the procurement of such materials for their own wear. The wealthy and affluent tend to lean toward clothing styles which set them apart from their middle-class counterparts, with clothing possessing all-natural fibers and vibrant colors universally popular among the League's elite circles. Leather is also an expensive product, as the majority of League worlds tend to be heavily-urbanized, meaning that land that would be used for pasturing livestock is instead converted into housing, industrial centers, commercial spaces, or greenhouse complexes, limiting the number of livestock available on a given planet. As with cash crops used for the production of luxury goods and clothing, livestock not being used for food production will often been sourced from less developed worlds in the League, meaning that the cost of shipping items procured from livestock such as leather, are extraordinarily expensive to purchase within the League.

The income levels within the League vary wildly depending upon where and which planet a citizen resides upon, and their income dictated by the industry they work in and where within their region of space that industry supports or is supported. For example, a government worker on the planet of Family Pride will be very well by League standards, as they are employed by the League itself and reside upon the safest and most developed planet in League space. However, a miner from Brass will generally exist on the lower-end of the economic ladder as they hail from a frontier world best known for supplying cheap mineral goods to worlds which cannot or will not mine for those minerals themselves. And in yet another instance, a station worker above Brass loading and unloading said mineral products aboard a cargo vessel will be very well compensated by their employer as they will generally work for one of the larger transport corporations in the League tasked with ensuring those goods are moved to their respective destinations in a timely manner. On the flip-end, a factory worker on Family Pride will find themselves scrapping by as their market is generally oversaturated by unskilled laborers who failed to make it into one of the better-paying and highly-competitive government jobs of the League's capital planet.