Blackjack Fairgrounds

The BlackJack Fairgrounds were once the location of the nearby cities and towns rennescaince fairs and other social get togethers of that nature. The glory days have long gone and for a time it stood abandoned. However, a group of ambitious trade barons moved in several years back and turned the once abandoned grounds into one of the most bustling and successful centers of commerce in the post-virus world.

Security
Blackjack Fairgrounds boasts some of the greatest defenses in the region. It is a bastion of safety, the security forces easily considered to be heavily armed. The grounds standard chainlink fence has since been bolstered up with high scrap walls, consisting of old smashed car bodies and flak board to shore it up with a guard bearing a rifle patrolling along the parapets.

Crime of any kind is not allowed in Blackjack. Just inside the only entrance, the large main gate still bearing the sign of old, stands a very worn gallows, bearing the most recent offenders of the areas simple laws. Pickpocketing, shoplifting, such pedestrian crimes are all punishable by death on the first offence.

Weapons are taken at the entrance, retreivable upon leaving. Only the guards are permitted weapons inside the grounds. Weapons deals happen in a specially sequestered area near the main gate under heavy guard.

Commerce
If it existed, you'll find it at Blackjack. While it's not quite true, it's definitely true enough. People come from all around looking to trade off there various rarities and other commodity goods. Accepted forms of currency are Bullets, Salt, Sugar, Oil, Gas, Gold and Silver. Exchange rates are posted about the trade post, giving the value of each in relation to the others per amount.

Those that sell their goods at Blackjack pay rent to the trade barons for as long as they stay to sell. There is a small fee to enter the grounds as well.

The Trade Barons
The mysterious proprietors of the Blackjack Fairgrounds are usually away from the grounds themselves and rarely wish to interact with the people there anyway, those that would always grip at the hem of their clothes begging and trying to earn favor with them. It isn't unheard of for them to call out for certain people to meet in private, though they rarely congregate, and when they do, it is for policy or other business related to the Fairgrounds as a whole.