Board Thread:Fanon Canon 2/@comment-25152698-20140921020314/@comment-24384232-20140925160437

The bulk of any Ninja Village's economy is from the missions they complete for their clientele. Its why Suna had been driven into desperation and allied with Sound because their Daimyo had begun outsourcing many of their contracts to outside nations, most notably Konoha.

Unfortunately the reality is that war is extremely profitably especially for a ninja village. From a darker perspective the destabilization of the region, the splintering of factions all vying for power, and the reduction in armed services for several shinobi villages is a boon.

Setting up rebel factions, supplying them with weapons, having them war with other nations to weaken their economy, then offering your services to the weakened nation. All very terrible, and horrendous crimes all for the sake of perpetuating war. Yet ultimately necessary if any village wants to survive. Even war by proxy is a profitable venue if you examine the resources that can be extracted at its conclusion.

Ninja Villages are not in the business of buying and trading goods like food, or clothing. Their business has and always will be war. Until this paradigm changes that will be the model for shinobi villages.

A revolutionary however might go about it a different way. As opposed to having ninja be contract assassins (this also means that shinobi routinely work for and against the nation they reside in), they would transform into a military force, paid for by taxes. Not unlike our current military. Rather than assassins, ninja might have to become soldiers or guardians that protects a nations borders and interests. Because at the moment while Konoha or any ninja village may reside in their "Land of ___", they might as well be separate entities whose goals on occasion align.