Things I Can't Help Thinking About When I Play Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

How quickly does the iron rot? Everyone still has metal weapons, and those must take a lot of effort to make. So it can't be tooquick. And why doesn't armor crumble as well? Or wagon wheels? Or buildings and bridges?

If evil kobold terrorists are trying to bring down Amn, wouldn't they be better off sending out a shipment of rotting nails and watching the Amnish (Amish?!) infastructure crumble?

Isn't the bigger problem the fact that bandits outnumber farmers 30:1? Or that the entire economy...