Possible Clues:

• Soldier escort arranged for individually owned businesses
• VAT
• Government counterpart
• Grunt, adjusting corset — it's no business of the state!
• Non-state economy
• Porters active at work in entrepreneurial area
• Overprices tat that's flogged where profit's sought?
• Soldier escort arranged for individually-owned businesses
• One soldier, with others, guarding religious group? It's none of the government's business
• Soldier and other ranks embracing cult? It's none of the state's business