[Dustin]

Rules for pricing smuggled goods or passengers seem to me impossible, because it's completely situational. Smuggling someone into Indonesia vs the US vs North Korea are each magnitudes of difficulty apart. Are you smuggling in someone who will "steal jobs", commit felonies, or undermine national security? Add the vagaries of sci-fi tech, and it's not anything amenable to a formulaic approach.

Instead, I would tempt the players with specific offers of fast cash for certain jobs with "no questions asked". A Mexican coyote doesn't get offers to smuggle terrorists every day, people approach them with specific tasks in mind.