Quote Originally Posted by Hasrat View Post
I seem to vaguely recall some early side quest or something that explained it as basically a toll booth system, pays for the security and whatnot, keeps folks from just zipping around under the radar.

Any explanation is going to be flimsy, so that's about as good as you'll get without them outright admitting there's no real mint and gil is effectively worthless.
Yeah, but still doesn't explain who's taking my "hard earned" gil from my "wallet" without me knowing. Really my post was more a joke than anything.