Aren't the seals who supposedly died in Extortion 17 living as mountain warlords now directing trafficking operations for the DS? "If you can't beat them, join them," right?
Everything is very weird.
Good guys looking like evil monsters
Bad guys looking like glorious heroes
"The Law" is the foundation of a profit driveb system to support the elite overlords. This is how "Temples" (Courts) have been funded for millenia, by subjugating a populace to a set of laws that extracts sacrifices (fines, fees, penalties) for profit.