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I noticed you've recently reclaimed your High Diamonds region and, with a little luck and a lot of moxie, you guys might be able to reboot your economy.
But, I noticed a couple little problems here.
An Indonesian speculator bought up all your local currency and is now selling it at an artificially inflated value.
This isn't a mistake, this person is trying to both undermine your economic recovery and make a tidy profit off unaware business owners. Meanwhile, your more perceptive business owners will either not put up job offers or put them up at half what people should be paid. This is a problem, because the buying power of the Australian money isn't increased, just the cost of it.
This tactic normally works for only a short time, because people that attack currency markets in this way are quickly undermined by studious public officials who simply print more money.
Yet, you have unfortunately empowered this person and guranteed them continued piracy on your market. I promise you, the person that did this has seen your rejection of the 'Print Money' law and is laughing himself half to death.
I understand your concerns, of course. We all have heard that 'too much money in the system leads to inflation' and, naturally, we all like the idea that all the nearly worthless AUD we had the other day might really be worth .08 Gold. But, that's an artificial value and one that is going to drop. Either slowly by people undercutting it or quickly by the government setting your currency at one value and one value alone.
The United States has been doing this for 9 months and it works.
Our money is worth .02 Gold. This sounds like a disadvantage, but the fact is that it's not. The value of your money is arbitrary in the long run and our currency has such a low value because it allows our businessmen to make finer adjustments to our products.
When businessmen in other countries lower the price of their products by .02 cents, that represents a .001 Gold loss. When businessmen in the United States lower their price by .02, it is only a .0004 Gold loss.
This is the *only* difference.
An Economic Skill 10 player in the United States currently commands 78 USD a day, which translates into 1.56 Gold while an Indonesian at work skill 10 commands only 32 IDR, but that translates into 1.6 Gold. Currency value has no bearing on such things *SO LONG AS THE CURRENCY IS STABLE AND CAN BE COUNTED ON TO RETAIN A MINIMUM VALUE*.
You have a worth-while region, now, and must provide such that workers can be hired there. This creates revenue in the form of taxes and DEMAND for your CURRENCY. That's how tax money becomes Gold for your leaders to guide your nation with. That's a good thing.
Fears of inflation are without base, because inflation is an errosion of the value of the currency. However, if your countries stewards have wisdom, they will only offer the currency ever at one value. If there's too much money in the system, people simply won't buy it and there is no loss. However, so long as there is demand for your currency, it should always be provided and business owners and consumers a like should be able to count on the value of that currency.
And, above all, they should be able to count on their government protecting that currency from being exploited by foreign speculators with deep pockets.
Print the money.
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About the game:
USA as a world power? In E-Sim it is possible!
In E-Sim we have a huge, living world, which is a mirror copy of the Earth. Well, maybe not completely mirrored, because the balance of power in this virtual world looks a bit different than in real life. In E-Sim, USA does not have to be a world superpower, It can be efficiently managed as a much smaller country that has entrepreneurial citizens that support it's foundation. Everything depends on the players themselves and how they decide to shape the political map of the game.
Work for the good of your country and see it rise to an empire.
Activities in this game are divided into several modules. First is the economy as a citizen in a country of your choice you must work to earn money, which you will get to spend for example, on food or purchase of weapons which are critical for your progress as a fighter. You will work in either private companies which are owned by players or government companies which are owned by the state. After progressing in the game you will finally get the opportunity to set up your own business and hire other players. If it prospers, we can even change it into a joint-stock company and enter the stock market and get even more money in this way.
In E-Sim, international wars are nothing out of the ordinary.
Become an influential politician.
The second module is a politics. Just like in real life politics in E-Sim are an extremely powerful tool that can be used for your own purposes. From time to time there are elections in the game in which you will not only vote, but also have the ability to run for the head of the party you're in. You can also apply for congress, where once elected you will be given the right to vote on laws proposed by your fellow congress members or your president and propose laws yourself. Voting on laws is important for your country as it can shape the lives of those around you. You can also try to become the head of a given party, and even take part in presidential elections and decide on the shape of the foreign policy of a given state (for example, who to declare war on). Career in politics is obviously not easy and in order to succeed in it, you have to have a good plan and compete for the votes of voters.
You can go bankrupt or become a rich man while playing the stock market.
The international war.
The last and probably the most important module is military. In E-Sim, countries are constantly fighting each other for control over territories which in return grant them access to more valuable raw materials. For this purpose, they form alliances, they fight international wars, but they also have to deal with, for example, uprisings in conquered countries or civil wars, which may explode on their territory. You can also take part in these clashes, although you are also given the opportunity to lead a life as a pacifist who focuses on other activities in the game (for example, running a successful newspaper or selling products).
At the auction you can sell or buy your dream inventory.
E-Sim is a unique browser game. It's creators ensured realistic representation of the mechanisms present in the real world and gave all power to the players who shape the image of the virtual Earth according to their own. So come and join them and help your country achieve its full potential.
Invest, produce and sell - be an entrepreneur in E-Sim.
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