Survival and .

To survive The Land of the Hounds, also referred to as ‘Exile’, many people come to extreme measures for survival in the land of criminals and serial killers.

So you commit a murder, and even if it was in self defence. The High Court, decided to banish you to the Exile. Basically just a country where they dump the worst of the worst criminals, since they decided jails weren’t good enough. And for a country with no laws, or any order, extreme measure need to be taken for survival.