I have an adventurer in Zonasa. While the nobles who I have contacted about Unique Items have been very good at RP (realm council, dukes, lords), which generally speak well of a realm, do be aware that they have the tax set to tax anything over 150 gold. While this generally isn't that important to a Knight, what it means is that any gold that you have which is above 150 gold is taxed. And 150 gold tax limit is very low (=bad).