EVE sounds like a fun place. I should check it out.
This from the man who set up the First Imperial Bank on Shartak, asked people to deposit gold coins as "shareholders", made some nominal "interest"/"dividend" payments, waited for the players to leave/forget, and ended up with 40000 gold coins which were used to fund wars and a casino for the next two years. (The casino bankrupted the only other bank in the game.) It'd be evil, if it wasn't so incredibly nerdy.