The best part is that thriving game scene is the literal way CDPR came into existence:
According to Iwiński, although he enjoyed playing video games as a child they were scarce in then-communist Poland. Marcin Iwiński, in high school, was selling cracked copies of Western video games at a Warsaw marketplace.
FACT CHECK: You could buy pirated vidya games on markets until the early 2000's.
Another thing the EU bureaucrats ruined
That's where the "CD" in CDPR comes from, they were the first to sell legitimate CD-ROM games from the West.
IIRC, THQ Nordic (of hosting Ms.Galaxy's child pornography fame) started along very similar lines as CDPR in both ways and they were in Austria of all places.
edit: Actually, hell, IIRC, UbiSoft also has a background in pirate markets and they were in France!