"It's not bad. I liked London. Anyway. Jackson's Whole has an interesting founding story, maybe even more interesting than Barrayar's; it was settled by a group of loosely cooperative criminal syndicates who wanted a base of operations outside the jurisdiction of any existing legal system. After a few centuries, they developed something resembling a legal system of their own, but it's not much more sophisticated than 'whoever has the money makes the rules'. They do honour their deals almost all the time, but you can't rely on notions of common decency or interplanetary law there. Neither one has much sway."