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+=== Races | Economy ===
 ====== THE EXOHUMAN ECONOMIC SYSTEM IN THE GAMMA AGE ======
 The economic system of the [[the_humans|ExoHumans]] on planet [[the_planet_voi_700_d|VOI 700 D]] in the [[the_gamma_age|Gamma Age]] is shaped primarily by the [[peace_treaty|Peace Treaty]] of 2631, which imposes strict limitations on industrialization, resource usage, and economic autonomy.
-Although ExoHumans brought theoretical knowledge from [[the_earth|Earth]], their ability to implement advanced economic models is hindered by severe energy shortages, environmental restrictions, and Native oversight. These constraints prevent large-scale production, forcing humans to rely on a centrally planned economy regulated by the [[federal_confederation|Federal Confederation]] and enforced by the [[gaia_system|GAIA System]].
+Although ExoHumans brought theoretical knowledge from [[the_earth|Earth]], their ability to implement advanced economic models is hindered by severe energy shortages, environmental restrictions, and Native oversight. These constraints prevent large-scale production, forcing humans to rely on a centrally planned economy regulated by the [[federal_confederation|Federal Confederation]] and enforced by the AI [[gaia|GAIA]], operated by the [[gaia_system|Federal GAIA Agency]].
 This economic system, known as [[communardism|Communardism]], was developed by the [[communards|Communard Party]] after the [[great_war|Great War]] to ensure sustainability and peaceful coexistence with the [[the_natives_tribes_of_voi_700_d|Native Tribes]]. However, it remains controversial among ExoHumans, particularly the [[individualists|Individualists]], who oppose its rigid structure and advocate for a return to free-market principles.
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 The Annual Plan is calculated by GAIA, the artificial intelligence responsible for governance and treaty compliance. Its key functions include:
-  * ✔ **Energy Allocation:** GAIA determines how limited energy resources are distributed among settlements. Industrial production is restricted to treaty-approved levels.
+  * **Energy Allocation:** GAIA determines how limited energy resources are distributed among settlements. Industrial production is restricted to treaty-approved levels.
-  * ✔ **Production Planning:** GAIA specifies what goods and services are produced, ensuring no surplus or waste. Luxury goods are largely prohibited.
+  * **Production Planning:** GAIA specifies what goods and services are produced, ensuring no surplus or waste. Luxury goods are largely prohibited.
-  * ✔ **Labor Distribution:** GAIA assigns human workers based on economic priorities, preventing inefficient workforce allocation.
+  * **Labor Distribution:** GAIA assigns human workers based on economic priorities, preventing inefficient workforce allocation.
-  * ✔ **Resource Management:** GAIA ensures raw materials are used sustainably, preventing over-extraction and environmental damage.
+  * **Resource Management:** GAIA ensures raw materials are used sustainably, preventing over-extraction and environmental damage.
 Since energy is strictly controlled under treaty conditions, unapproved industries, experimental research, and large-scale automation are forbidden. Attempts to bypass these restrictions are punishable under the [[civil_code|Civil Code]].
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-===== Assignment of occupations  =====
+===== Mandatory Labor Assignments: No Free Career Choice =====
+The 14,000 working-age ExoHumans do not have the freedom to choose their professions. Instead, GAIA assigns each individual to an occupation based on the Annual Plan’s economic needs. This policy applies to both:
+  * **Existing Workers:** Every worker is reassigned yearly based on demand.
+  * **Graduates:** School graduates receive career assignments along with their certificates, which determines their path.
+This lack of individual agency is a major source of frustration, especially among younger generations who hope for different careers. Many view GAIA’s selections as arbitrary and restrictive, but the Federal Confederation defends the system as necessary for survival.
+===== Allotment Cards: The End of Currency & The Rise of Rationing =====
+During the Beta Age, ExoHumans used the [[kourou|Kourou]] as currency, consisting of paper money and coins.
+However, after the war, the Federal Confederation abolished the monetary system, replacing it with [[allottment_cards|Allotment Cards]] issued by the [[federal_allotment_agency|Federal Allotment Agency]] (FAA).
+==== How the Allotment System Works ====
+  * Every citizen receives an Allotment Card once per year.
+  * The card’s value is calculated based on available resources, energy levels, and GAIA’s economic planning.
+  * Goods are not purchased with money but are instead issued at [[federal_allotment_centers_1_2_3_4_of_new_kourou|Federal Allotment Centers]] in controlled amounts to prevent excess consumption.
+This system is intended to eliminate waste and ensure total economic stability, but it has also erased financial independence.
+===== The Shadow Economy and Black Markets =====
+Many ExoHumans, particularly supporters of the Individualist Party, oppose the planned economy and long for the return of capitalist trade and private enterprise. As a result, a thriving black market has emerged, fueled by the demand for goods and services unavailable under Communardism.
+==== Key Black Market Commodities ====
+  * **Weapons & Ammunition:** Despite strict regulations, smuggled firearms and melee weapons circulate in the underground economy, often supplied to [[outlaws|Outlaws]].
+  * **Quantum Fusion Batteries (QFBs):** As restricted energy sources, [[quantum_fusion_batteries|Quantum Fusion Batteries]] are now banned from legal circulation — are secretly traded and used for illicit industrial operations or powering unregistered [[service_bots|Service Bots]].
+  * **Service Bots:** Although heavily monitored under the Treaty’s Technological Restrictions, some individuals seek to regain access to automated labor. These illegally reprogrammed bots perform anything from manual labor to hacking operations.
+  * **Luxury Goods & Individual Garment:** The Communard economy mandates standardized clothing and utility-focused production, making custom-tailored attire, jewelry, and exotic fabrics highly desirable among the wealthy and the rebellious.
+  * **Meat & Alcohol Sales:** As livestock farming is energy-intensive and outlawed, black market traders secretly breed animals, smuggling meat into settlements. Home-brewed alcohol is also widely sold, especially in Firetown.
+  * **Drugs & Pharmaceuticals:** Restricted medicine, stimulants, and addictive substances are trafficked in hidden networks. The [[jane_bold_gang|Jane Mendoza Gang]] controls the drug trafficking in the [[ralar_region|Ralar Region]] and Firetown.
+  * **Prostitution & Entertainment Services:** With personal relationships closely intertwined with social stability, unsanctioned companionship services exist outside official oversight, particularly in Firetown’s underground districts.
+  * **Illegal Gambling & Betting Dens:** Firetown is notorious for its secret gambling establishments, offering high-stakes betting on pit fights, card games, and outlawed lotteries.
+==== Criminalization & Federal Enforcement ====
+Black market activity is punishable under the Civil Code, with severe penalties for:
-The frugality also applies to the resources of human labor. Thus, the annual plan also determines how the 14,000 human workers of working age will be allocated in the coming work year. A so-called free choice of occupation, as we know it from Earth, is therefore not possible at all for the settlers.
+  * Unauthorized trade & smuggling
+  * Possession or use of QFBs & Service Bots
+  * Illegal energy consumption
+  * Currency-based transactions using Kourou
-In addition is also determined which career the school graduates should take. Each graduate also receives a call-up to a specific career path with his or her certificate. In the process, many young people experience disappointment time and again, as some of them had hoped for different careers than GAIA allows them to pursue.
+Firetown remains the center of black-market activity, despite continuous Federal Sheriff crackdowns. Some suspect corrupt officials within the Federal Confederation allow certain illicit trades to continue in exchange for bribes or valuable intelligence.
-===== Distribution of goods and commodities through Allottment Cards  =====
-In the [[Beta Age]] the government of people had introduced a currency. The so-called [[Kourou|Kourou]]. It was issued in the form of paper money and copper coins. The money was produced at the Federal Coin Press and Money Printing House in [[New Kourou ]]. The paper money with the highest value was a 1,000-Kourou bill. In addition, there was a 10, a 20, a 50, and a 100 Kourou bill. The highest copper coin was 5 Kourou. There was also a 1,- Kourou coin as well as a 0,25 Kourou coin (called "Quarter") and the two smallest coins (called "Minis" and "Mini Minis"), which had a value of 0,01 Kourou and 0,10 Kourou.
+===== ExoHuman Supply System: Inter-Settlement Dependencies =====
-Due to the introduction of communardism after the Great War, the monetary system was abolished by the first government of [[georgia_hawking|Aisha Patel]] in the [[federal_council|Federal Council]] of the Federal Confederation and replaced by [[allottment_cards|Allotment Cards]] issued by the [[Federal Allotment Agency]]. Since then, people have received products only if they have a so-called [[allottment_cards|Allotment Card]]. The cards are issued once a year to the population - based on the available resources and individual calculations of the GAIA system. In this way, the administration wants to ensure that exactly those goods are consumed that are also produced.
+Unlike the Beta Age, where ExoHumans engaged in private trade and market-based exchange, the Gamma Age economy operates as a supply-based system in which settlements rely on one another for essential resources.
-Nevertheless, the government has never quite succeeded in completely removing the old currency from the market. Although it is punishable to buy goods with Kourou, the currency is still widely used. Namely, in the so-called shadow economy - with its mysterious black markets, which flourish especially in [[firetown|Firetown]], on the [[dark_side|Dark Side]].
+  * There is no commercial trade between ExoHumans and Native Tribes — the Natives refuse to engage in economic exchange with ExoHumans, viewing them as guests with no ownership rights over planetary resources.
+  * Goods are not bought or sold — instead, each settlement supplies the others with food, materials, and manufactured goods in accordance with GAIA’s Annual Plan.
+  * No settlement is fully autonomous—each relies on the others for survival, as energy production, food supply, and raw materials are distributed across different locations.
-===== The Shadow Economy and it’s Black Markets =====
+==== The Trade Route: Ancient & Extended Sections ====
-Many people feel constrained by the strict guidelines in the economic system of Communardism. Especially among the voters of the Party of [[individualists|Individualists]], there are many who would like to see a return to a free. capitalist system in which everyone can buy the goods they want.
+Although settlers refer to it simply as "The [[trade_route|Trade Route]]," the system consists of two distinct sections:
-For this reason, a black market has emerged in recent years, trading products and services that are not included in the annual plan. These include above all so-called luxury goods, which are classified by the community as "non-essential" and which nevertheless waste energy resources, such as meat from animals. But also weapons, drugs, and illegal services such as gambling and prostitution.
+  * **The Ancient Route:** A pre-existing Native trade path in the [[asari|Asari Region]] of the [[habitual_belt|Habitual Belt]], historically used for inter-tribal resource exchange. It now serves as the primary connection between [[new_kourou|New Kourou,]] [[hope|Hope]], and [[Morningstar|Morningstar]] for the distribution of essential goods.
+  * **The Extended Route:** Built by ExoHumans during the Beta Age, this fortified path connects New Kourou to [[firetown|Firetown]] and Firetown to Morningstar. Firetown is entirely dependent on the Extended Route for survival, as it lies on the [[dark_side|Dark Side]], where no food production is possible. Without supply convoys, Firetown would collapse within weeks.
-Since energy and human resources are scarce, trading on the black market and producing products or providing services for the black market is severely punished based on the [[civil_code|Civil Code]].
+==== Strict Travel & Transport Regulations ====
+In the Gamma Age, all transportation of goods is tightly controlled by the Federal Confederation.
-===== Export and Import: The Trade Route and Trade with Native Tribes =====
+  * Only the [[federal_courier_service|Federal Courier Service (FCS)]] is authorized to operate convoys along the Trade Route.
+  * FCS convoys are escorted exclusively by the [[federal_sheriff|Federal Sheriff’s]] armed guards.
+  * Unauthorized travel along the Trade Route is strictly prohibited.
+  * Settlers cannot engage in transportation, exchange, or barter.
-In the [[habitual_belt|Habitual Belt]], there has been a [[Trade Route]] for many decades through which the Native Tribes exchange goods and commodities with each other. Since the people signed the peace treaty, they also use this route to trade with the Native Tribes.
+Travel restrictions prevent ordinary citizens from freely moving between settlements unless they have special authorization from the Federal Confederation.
+===== Tactical Advice for Dungeon Masters =====
-The reservations of [[new_kourou|New Kourou]], [[hope|Hope]] and [[morningstar|Morningstar]] are located directly on the ancient trade route. Firetown, on the other hand, is not connected to the ancient trade route. This is because the Natives only settle in the Habitual Belt and not on the freezing cold [[dark_side|Dark Side]].
+The economic system of the Gamma Age provides rich opportunities for storytelling and player-driven conflict. Some potential scenarios include:
-The Humans, on the other hand, founded Firetown because it is near by their only [[copper_mine|copper mine.]] In order to be able to supply Firetown with goods and merchandise, the people built a fortified path before the war, which leads from New Kourou directly to Firetown and is called "Extended Trade Route".Without breaks, it takes three days on a [[hoos|Hoo]] to complete the Extended Trade Route to Firetown.
+  * **Black Market Operations:** Players may smuggle illegal goods, sabotage enforcement efforts, or infiltrate underground trade rings.
+  * **Economic Sabotage:** A secret group plans to overload GAIA’s production quotas—players must either stop or assist them.
+  * **Labor Disputes & Forced Relocations:** Workers refuse to accept their GAIA-mandated jobs, leading to protests and potential crackdowns.
+  * **The Kourou Conspiracy:** A radical group believes the old currency could be reinstated—players must track down hidden Kourou reserves before they destabilize the economy.
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   * [[federal_confederation|The Federal Confederation]]
+  * [[civil_code|Civil Code of the Federal Confederation]]
   * [[communardism|Communardism]]
   * [[federal_allotment_agency|Federal Allotment Agency]]
+  * [[gaia_system|Federal GAIA Agency]]
+  * [[gaia|GAIA]]
   * [[communards|Communard Party]]
   * [[individualists|Individualist Party]]