Venezuela was one of the wealthiest nations in South America, but it has spent the last 10 years engulfed in a political and financial crisis. What started as the slow crumbling of the nation's market in 2010 snowballed into a devastating avalanche of corruption, crime, and mass starvation, leaving huge numbers of people of the nation unable to feed themselves or access basic health supplies. Ninety percent of Venezuelans are living in poverty, and among the most extreme and sustained periods of hyperinflation means that people are earning the equivalent of $5 per month.

Against this cataclysmic economical and social backdrop, huge numbers of people have fled the country in search of better lives, with many more urgently attempting to find their own means of escape. In November 2019, 3 million was reached by the number of refugees and migrants. Have been made to discover methods to live. While some craft bags from useless bolivars -- Venezuelan currency -- to sell at markets, the others look to a virtual land of opportunity, spending hours in front of computer screens and mobile phones hunting green dragons in the internet RuneScape participant role-playing game RuneScape.

OSRS is the more popular variant, which is favored by Venezuelan RuneScape players as it's simpler to run and does not use much data. For the remainder of this story, once we refer to RuneScape, we are speaking about OSRS.] RuneScape was released in 2001 by British programmer Jagex, but it is just in the past four years a growing number of Veneuzelans have begun depending on RuneScape because their main source of revenue. One such RuneScape participant is ex-accountant Martinez, who asked that his name not be printed to guard his RuneScape account. After the inflation rate of the bolivar meant he could no more survive on the money he earned martinez quit his job.

RuneScape was a lifeline for his family and Martinez. He tells Polygon he earned $450 in RuneScape, and used that money to flee Venezuela and move to Peru. He continued to play with RuneScape and saved an additional $1,000, which he used to receive his mom and girlfriend. "RuneScape is a super popular approach to make money in this era," Martinez writes. "Depending on the state in Venezuela you are from, pretty much everyone knows about RuneScape."

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