Komarr was a key planet in the Galactic Nexus, and part of the Barrayaran Imperium. "I'm a Komarran. I have to be [a practical businessperson]. Without the value-added, from our trade, labor, transport, banking, and remanufacturing, Komarr would dwindle again to the desperate subsistence -- and less-than-subsistence -- level from which it rose. And seven out of ten of us would die, one way or another." ―Laisa Toscane on Komarrans