Ooooh! I've got another one. It's a kind of crime that just wouldn't exist back home - or in space alone.
Earthmoving.
Biomass is really pretty valuable in space. At the same time, there's a fair amount of biomass just sitting around on earth that's as cheap as... well... dirt. Lifting things to orbit may not be all that feasible for spoilable large-volume inherent-value things like red meat, but it's *easy* to go handwave a shipping container, slap on an engine and a cockpit, and buy it full of mulch, or cordwood, or topsoil, or whatever.
At the same time, well, we had the Floating Island... and then we had Grover's Corners... and then we had people making noises about how freakishly wealthy (in Fenspace terms) the new folks over at the Corners *were*, and the various nations of the world (and the various environmentalists of the world) started putting some serious consideration into the long-term effects of having people strip you of biomass. So they made a few laws, and figured out a few semi-useful enforcement techniques, and we're now at the point where fly-by-night operations aren't really worth it on the risk/reward curve. On the other hand, some of the more organized criminals out there are managing to make a dishonest buck in smuggling biomass up and laundering money back down - they just have to keep pretty quiet about it. That in turn means keeping it at a relatively low level, and tiny vicious wars with anyone trying to steal their turf, and, in general, keeping the total lifted quantity low enough that the economy still functions. There are a *lot* more people who want to farm in space than there is dirt to support them, after all.
Earthmoving.
Biomass is really pretty valuable in space. At the same time, there's a fair amount of biomass just sitting around on earth that's as cheap as... well... dirt. Lifting things to orbit may not be all that feasible for spoilable large-volume inherent-value things like red meat, but it's *easy* to go handwave a shipping container, slap on an engine and a cockpit, and buy it full of mulch, or cordwood, or topsoil, or whatever.
At the same time, well, we had the Floating Island... and then we had Grover's Corners... and then we had people making noises about how freakishly wealthy (in Fenspace terms) the new folks over at the Corners *were*, and the various nations of the world (and the various environmentalists of the world) started putting some serious consideration into the long-term effects of having people strip you of biomass. So they made a few laws, and figured out a few semi-useful enforcement techniques, and we're now at the point where fly-by-night operations aren't really worth it on the risk/reward curve. On the other hand, some of the more organized criminals out there are managing to make a dishonest buck in smuggling biomass up and laundering money back down - they just have to keep pretty quiet about it. That in turn means keeping it at a relatively low level, and tiny vicious wars with anyone trying to steal their turf, and, in general, keeping the total lifted quantity low enough that the economy still functions. There are a *lot* more people who want to farm in space than there is dirt to support them, after all.