I guess you could pretty much buy out a country, keep increasing exports and decreasing imports, and so you obtain more of their currency. -----Original Message----- From: Philip Hart [mailto:philiph at slac.stanford.edu] Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 7:50 PM To: dragaera at dragaera.info Subject: RE: more denominations! [I believe no _TEoDM_ spoilers] On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Sunny Han wrote: > The dragearean system can't be fiat tho, isn't it actually backed by > gold? Perhaps someone with sufficient economics savvy to understand "fiat" (which I best know as the beginning to a light-making spell) above could comment on the fact that Zerika and Kana share a common currency. At the end of _TLoCB_ she controls perhaps twice as much territory as K, and I assume a proportionate ratio of resources. Can she drive his economy off the rails by messing with the money supply? Of course Orb-based growth in Z's territory would surely lead to problems for K - couldn't she simply drive the price of say horses or grain up until K would have trouble operating? [minor TEoDM spoiler follows] [TEoDM spoiler] In fact, isn't Kana's economy subject to sorcerous predation? Piro & Co could move into K's territory and lead a happy life of banditry via teleportation without concerns about being traced...