The economic system of the ExoHumans on planet VOI 700 D in the Gamma Age is shaped primarily by the Peace Treaty of 2631, which imposes strict limitations on industrialization, resource usage, and economic autonomy.

Although ExoHumans brought theoretical knowledge from 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 and enforced by the GAIA System.

This economic system, known as Communardism, was developed by the Communard Party after the Great War to ensure sustainability and peaceful coexistence with the Native Tribes. However, it remains controversial among ExoHumans, particularly the Individualists, who oppose its rigid structure and advocate for a return to free-market principles.

Unlike the free-market capitalism of the Beta Age, the Gamma Age economy is fully controlled by an Annual Plan, which determines all aspects of production, distribution, and labor allocation.

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.
• ✔ 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.
• ✔ 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.

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.

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.

In the Beta Age the government of people had introduced a currency. The so-called 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.

Due to the introduction of communardism after the Great War, the monetary system was abolished by the first government of Aisha Patel in the Federal Council of the Federal Confederation and replaced by Allotment Cards issued by the Federal Allotment Agency. Since then, people have received products only if they have a so-called 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.

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, on the Dark Side.

Many people feel constrained by the strict guidelines in the economic system of Communardism. Especially among the voters of the Party of 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.

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.

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.

In the 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.

The reservations of New Kourou, Hope and 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.

The Humans, on the other hand, founded Firetown because it is near by their only 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 Hoo to complete the Extended Trade Route to Firetown.

• The Federal Confederation
• Communardism
• Federal Allotment Agency
• Communard Party
• Individualist Party
• The Peace Treaty
• The Trade Route

The Ages of the Exohuman history:

• Alpha Age
• Beta Age
• Gamma Age