Because we have the ability to outsource our farming and manufacturing to Home and the Isles of Camulous if we wish and you're lucky to even get 2 silver you dirty peasant. Icenia has nearly 100% employment and our successful wars abroad have filled our coffers and lowered taxes on the middle class (i.e. those who don't pay their taxes in potatoes) while providing a higher level of personal health care for all citizens through generous funding of the Healer's Guild, the royal paladins are conducting investigations on the noblility in an effort to expose the type of corruption that led to scandals such as Evorragate. This is to say nothing of the fact that the nobility are protecting you from enemy nations who want to see both you and your way of life destroyed and nearly all of us have given our lives, some multiple times, to ensure that you have the freedom to hop on the dream realm and call us greedy wastrels.
I am the ONE,
King Broomis Bouchard
P.S.- You kids better get your tents off my lawn before I start summoning pantherghasts, see if I won't.