Since the currency and the money system got abolished by the government of the Communards after the Great War, Allotment Cards are the basis for the distribution of goods in the economic system of the Humans in the Federal Confederation in the Gamma Age.

Thus, at the beginning of the year, each citizen receives his personal Allotment Card at his place of work. This ensures that only adults working in their assigned occupations receive a card. The Criminal Code also provides that a citizen may have his Allotment Card revoked ' if the laws of the Federal Confederation are violated. Convicted felons do not receive an allotment card for the duration of their incarceration. They are cared for by the correctional institution.

In addition to the annual Allotment Cards, there are also so-called Vouchers for urgent exceptional cases, with which citizens can obtain certain goods that are urgently needed.

The administration of the so called “Allotment System” is carried out by the Federal Allotment Agency. The calculation of which goods a citizen receives is done by the artificial intelligence GAIA.

The idea behind the Allotment System is to provide people - within the limits of the available possibilities - with sufficient food and goods without lumping everyone together, but to consider individual needs according to an ethical key.

For example, pregnant women are allocated different goods and quantities than older people. Or workers in the copper mine more calories per month than office workers. But by calculating how much each person needs, GAIA also eliminates the need to produce more and allows valuable resources to be saved or used elsewhere (e.g., in the health care system). And in years in which there may be a shortage, there is a clear distribution and prioritization of needs through the ethical key.

On 01 January, each adult citizen receives at his workplace his Allotment Card, which is valid for the next 12 months. The card indicates the distribution categories to which the citizen belongs.

There are the following categories:

Main categories:

• Alpha: for people who do hard physical work
• Beta: For people who primarily perform non-physically demanding activities.
• Gamma: For seniors who are no longer employed

Additional categories:

• Nurturer of Children: For adults who are responsible for feeding children (only one parent per family receives this category)
• Caregiver: For citizens who care for a family member who can no longer care for themselves.
• Federal Canteen: For citizens who are not supplied with meals via a company cafeteria.

In addition, a card notes the “non-food” purchases a citizen is entitled to make in the next 12 months.

To get their allotted goods, citizens have to go their assigned Federal Allotment Center once a week and bring their „Federal Food Basket“ (as a shopping cart for their grocery shopping). To avoid queues, each citizen has a fixed day of the week as well as a fixed time of day when they are allowed to visit the Allotment Center once a week.

At the Allotment Center, the citizens only have to show their Allotment Card and on this basis they will receive the weekly ration of foodstuffs, that gets provided by the Federal Food Plant and calculated by GAIA. During their weekly visit, citizens can also take other goods that are allowed to them by GAIA through their annual card.

As already mentioned above, in addition to the annually valid Allotment Cards, there are also the so-called vouchers. These are allocated to citizens at short notice upon application or allocation by a federal authority, if this is required by a current exceptional situation. For example, if a citizen has to travel to the Dark Side at short notice, but does not have warm clothing, he will receive such a voucher. In addition, vouchers can also be used on the Trade Route between New Kourou and Firetown, for example, to rest at the Halfway Inn.

Allotment Cards can also be used for the following:

• To receive meals in company cafeterias
• To obtain meals at Federal Canteens (for those whose workplace does not have a cafeteria).
• To obtain 2 drinks per evening in a Federal Saloon (max. one with alcohol)
• To receive water at Federal Fountains (is only checked on a random basis)
• To borrow books in the Federal Library

The party of Individualists, rejects Allottment Cards in principle. From their perspective, a society cannot progress if everyone basically gets the same and individual performance is not rewarded.As a capitalist party, they want to reintroduce the old Beta Age currency Kourou and pay people based on their individual, job performance.

The human economic system in the Gamma Age