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The series follows the Lagoon Company, a four-member team of pirate mercenaries smuggling goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia with their PT boatBlack Lagoon. The group takes on various jobs, usually involving criminal organizations, and resulting in violent gunfights.

Roanapur is the fictional city in Thailand where the Black Lagoon takes place. The city is infamous as a den of crime and corruption and is home to a wide variety of criminals and outcasts including pickpockets, thugs, mercenaries, thieves, prostitutes, assassins, and gunmen, all of whom operate without much hassle from authorities.

Roanapur is shown to be in the geographic location on or very near Trat, Thailand.[2] Roanapur, being a port town, is situated on Thailand's coast adjacent to the Gulf of Thailand, stationed quite close to sea level. The city is greatly urbanized and has a tropical savanna climate like most of Thailand.

While the town mainly has Thai citizens, its international standing among criminals and tourists has attracted people from various nations, including Vietnam,[7] Japan,[15] Russia, Italy, China, the United States,[Note 2] Colombia, Mexico,[16] Albania, and even Australia.[17] Given the large Buddha statue in Roanapur's bay as well as Thailand's history, Buddhism was indicated to have a large presence in the area at some point, and a small number of Christians reside in the city such as churchgoers of the Rip-Off Church.

Language

Thai is the primary language of Roanapur, which is greatly demonstrated by the numerous Thai signs in the city and its location in Thailand. Nonetheless, because there are lots of foreigners in town of various backgrounds, English is Roanapur's lingua franca, which is also demonstrated on business and city signs where English commonly accompanies the Thai script. Additionally, the languages of the various crime syndicates can be seen in the respective territory of said groups, such as Russian and Chinese signs for Hotel Moscow fronts and Triad businesses. In the anime, there is a more noticeable amount of Vietnamese signs, such as the signs in front of the Lagoon Company office.

Economy

The primary currency of Roanapur is baht, although the U.S. dollar is also popular given that USD is prevalent in illicit activities across the globe. Furthermore, the majority of the city's GDP comes from the city's businesses, some of which act as fronts for the crime syndicates, in addition to tourism, including tourists' visits to casinos and the brothels in the profitable red-light districts.Even the city's police force are frequent customers of Roanapur's prostitutes. Additionally, money from the hotels and motels that tourists use for lodging also pull in money, as well as strip bars and the sale of alcohol. Of common crimes, much of Roanapur's illicit business includes drug smugglingillegal weapon sales,identity document forgery,murder-for-hirehuman trafficking,the distribution and sale of child exploitation films,and match fixing. Local informants like Richie Leroy also make money from distributing information on criminals' whereabouts and actions to others. Because of the many gunfights and massacres, the business of "cleaning" (corpse disposal and evidence cleanup) is a widely common and thriving business with great competition, although it is not without risk due to cleaners routinely facing traps and lethal retribution in their line of work.

Roanapur scenery

Roanapur can be easily identified by the large sea stack with a Buddha statue carved into it at the entrance of the city's lagoon. The Buddha statue, meant to brighten the world with the light of virtue, is in disrepair and has his eyes faded out. There are only two entrances to the city, one being the sea route where one must pass by the Buddha statue, and the other entrance is the overland bridge, where nooses hang from as a warning to outsiders. To the city's south is the Roanapur Harbor, the Roanapur Wharf, and the shipping yard, where ships dock for importing and exporting goods. The Lagoon Companydock building is located in this area where their boat, the Black Lagoon, sits at port. In addition, there are many warehouses on the city's outskirts where individuals, businesses and syndicates can pick up goods that they ordered. Land prices are quite cheap in Roanapur, and many abandoned buildings like factories are located oBougainvillea Trade Company is a front business for Hotel Moscow's Thai branch, and the building, located on Satanam Street, serves as Balalaika's office and base of operations. The company has legal cover in its transport dealings on ships such as the Marya Zaleska and the Nefrit.

Rip-Off Church

Rip-Off Church is a Catholic church located atop a hill on the outskirts of Roanapur. Although its members dress in Catholic religious garments, the church in reality is a front for a weapons and drug smuggling operation headed by Sister Yolanda with assistance from Eda and Rico. Mister Chang personally allows Sister Yolanda as the only non-Triad affiliate to sell weapons in Roanapur, showing good relations with the Hong Kong Triad. Moreover, the Church also has a large network of informants for intelligence gathering throughout the city, and they have connections to the Ramsap Inn. Eda, being a CIA agent, reports back to her superior in Langley since foreign and economic intelligence gathering in Southeast Asia is reserved for Eda's branch. The CIA is one of the Rip-Off Church's frequent clients.

Jackpot Pigeons

Jackpot Pigeons is a strip bar located on Rachada Street.It is owned by Rowan "Jackpot" Pigeons, who also sells pornographic films there, including illegal films and child sexual exploitation films.Likewise, the female employees tend to wear exposing clothing with some arriving as trafficking victims from various countries (the same conditions of many prostitutes in Roanapur). For example, the performer Emushira is from Bosnia.

The Golden Swingin Night Club

The Golden Swingin Night Club, located on Hamipong Street, is a restaurant and nightclub owned and operated by Mister Chang as a front for the Hong Kong Triad in Roanapur. Chang occasionally uses the establishment as a hosting place for Council summits between the cities' crime bosses to figure out and discuss problems in Roanapur.

Hot River Film Company building

The Hot River Film Company building is a corporate office in Roanapur that is owned by Hot River Film Company, a cable television provider and Hong Kong Triad front. The building is empty of film equipment and production, and it is solely used as an occasional office for Mister Chang because most of the company's production collaborations take place in the Bangkok branch.

Sawyer's workplace

Sawyer's workplace is where Sawyer the Cleaner receives corpses or living people to dispose of, being commissioned often due to the high frequency of murder in Roanapur. The inside of her disposal area mimics that of a morgue insofar as there is a mortuary table and surgical tools, and she also has meat hooks like those of a butcher shop and a large freezer room for storing bodies.n the outskirts as well.