Incorporation

Los Santos incorporates as a city.

Licensing, street maintenance, policing and taxation become recurring political battles. Drinking houses provide revenue while officials periodically promise to suppress their gaming rooms.

The compulsive gambler becomes a familiar example of someone supposedly unfit to manage a household or public office.

Enforcement is uneven. A laborer’s unpaid stake may invite dismissal or arrest, while a merchant’s larger losses are settled privately.

An accusation of gambling becomes useful even when nobody can prove cheating or misconduct.