Background
Plato 997, The TavernVille World of the Kingdom
Plato 997 is a Backwater World in the Line Region (Royal Command Region) of the Kingdom of Jod, roughly 3 days worth of hyperspace travel to the Defense Force Lines and 2 days hyperspace travel from Hellasta Prime. Plato 997 is the only habitable planet in an otherwise unremarkable and isolated star system in, frankly, the middle of nowhere. The next habitable planet or other signs of colonized life is roughly 29 hours away in hyperspace travel and at that, it's an isolated asteroid belt colony that calls themselves the Free Jod Colony.
Known as little more than a far out-of-the-way stop on the star chart for most honest spacers---and one most honest spacers avoid---the planet is known for a unsavory collection of drifters, gamblers, thieves, smugglers, and all around scoundrels that call the planet---or at least one of it's 3 major cities (with a spaceport each)----home. In between the 3 scattered & spread out bastions of ill repute across the planet, the world features wide swaths of land mostly empty of large populations of Jod---with scattered and small pockets of small towns, homely villages, and privately held lord land---and mostly untamed with wildlife and other dangers. The planet has earned the unpleasant moniker as The TavernVille World of the Kingdom. Swoop gangs, highwaymen, robbers, slave traders, mercenaries, cheats & frauds, and all shorts of other unsavory individuals---including various small time hidden pirate bases---dominate the Corellia-like (minus the industrial urban development) landscape.
Despite the world's attraction for the unsavory & criminal elements of society, the Jod Military Forces has deployed to the planet on 9 month rotations for several years, with the locals jokingly calling the military's presence the 9-Bye-9, meaning the King's Army & Kingdom's Navy are deployed 9 months on, 6 months off, and 9 months on again (a typical 3 Rotation Deployment for a soldier or sailor's first 24 months of service). The local criminals have got so use to the military's presence, then lack of presence, that they say the authorities take one step forward and three steps back (which isn't far from the truth). Despite the stigma attached to the military's attempt at stopping crime locally and providing a security presence in the middle of nowhere to showcase Jod authority (where the military presence also keeps the Free Jod Colony in check), the military deployments have cleaned up the once run-down dirty planet & star system in general quite well considering the limited deployment rotations.
Along with a permanent Local Garrison located on planet, the planet's military 9-Bye-9 deployment is typically handled by the 89th Combat Division (Unlucky 89) & Action Force 12. The Planetary Enforcement & Customs Agency (PECA) maintains a lowly Level A Rating on the forgettable backwater world, speaking to any real enforcement of Jod law outside of dedicated Local Sheriff Deputies and the Shire Troopers that patrol the 3 shires on the planet.