There is a wide continuum of lawlessness; this fish market seems to be close to the benign side, where the setting is risky but people have good intentions. As

There is a wide continuum of lawlessness; this fish market seems to be close to the benign side, where the setting is risky but people have good intentions. As less and less people have a choice about their condition, you get to self-governing slums. Towards the far end of the scale, you find places like Kowloon Walled City, Saipan in the 1980s, and Mong La in Myanmar -- places which external law has failed to penetrate, and are rife with the exploitation of people.