The cost for a Golden Death was one hundred seventeen talmars. This was a rise from the earlier price of eighty talmars and was a fee Cordo was unable to pay, making him suicidal. As a Grade D worker he earned only three talmars a shift. Air space violations and and illegal landings were subject to fines of five hundred talmars each. Only Executive Grade individuals were allowed into the sunlight. Anyone else caught in the sun was fined five talmars or given a week in the Correction Centre.