Yeah, after the last demo I made a similar comment. The whole plot is rather senseless. He comes into town intent on taking down the system, and his master plan is to sell spices, buy his family's hovel, and then ???. As of the last demo, in order to complete step 2, you pretty much had to start working as sort of an auxiliary member of the local police, which only makes sense if it'll be used for infiltration purposes later.
It sounds like the story and gameplay either hasn't advanced sufficiently to tie anything together, or it's gone off in even more random directions in this new version.