NationStates Jolt Archive

We all know this fragment from every single national description page, but it tells us almost nothing about the currency. I created this thread, so you have a place to give information about your currency, currency unions, you're in, inflations, deflations or pictures of notes and coins.

Rejistanias currency is the lil'kansu, which is rejistanian for 'to have value'. The plural of this word is lil'kansu'ny. The UN calls it in his report LilKansu (plural LilKansus), because they don't like apostrophes in the currency name.
One dollar is worth 1100 lil'kansu. Coins exist for values from 10 lil'kansu to 5000 lil'kansu. Notes exist for values of 10,000 lil'kansu to 500,000 lil'kansu. The low value of the lil'kansu has several reasons, one was a inflation in the times of the foundation of Rejistania, but it is also a reason, that Rejistanians don't liike non-integer-numbers and so there never existed a lower unit than the lil'kansu.

New Genoa --> New Genoese Allied Credit

Basically, New Genoa's version of the regional currency. Its value is the same, but it is designed differently.

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Summary

100 shekels = 1 denier
100 deniers = 1 Bezant

$US 1 = 0.5 deniers (abouts)

Boom-ville-Gold Points

Gold Points, or GPs, are the mainstream currency in Boom-ville and all of its satalites. GPs are small ovals made of gold. The reason boom-ville and its satalites are able to mass-produce thier currency made from actual gold is because of a couple of things. One: Boom-ville has a large amount of gold mines within its borders. Two: The GP is small, about the size of an almond, which helps a little on gold conservation. Three: Boom-ville is a powerful space nation with multiple space colonies and territories. Massive mining and trading allows a large amount of gold to pour into the boom-ville coffers.

1 GP= $11 U.S. dollars

The Nanakaland Nanakan is the currency of the Nanakan Commonwealth. It's even used on the moon.

1 Nanakaland Nanakan equals 0.85 USD (and getting more valuable)

The Catholic European Currency is the - RC€.

One RC€ is worth about $2.76.

The RC€ is broken down into centro's, where a 100 centro's equal 1 RC€.

10 pewter dragon claws = 1 bronze dragon claw
10 bronze dragon claws = 1 silver dragon claw
10 silver dragon claws = 1 gold dragon claw

$(US)100 = 1 gold
$10 = 1 silver
$1 = 1 bronze
$0.10 = 1 pweter

This currency is used in all drangonsile colonies

Quick summary for Albia:

Shee City: The pound, equal to 100 pence

Kitchen Garden: The cob - this isn't so much a unit of currency as of time and effort - you barter the number of hours you'll work for a particular product or service from someone else.

Crita Novo: use direct barter rather than currency.

Darkovan nations (The Alton Domain, The Renunciates, The Overworld, The Dry Towns): The copper link - these are formed into bracelets or necklaces for easy transportation. The smaller unit of currency is the sekal, a small silver coin.

I don't know much about the rest of the currencies (OOC, not all the nations listed above are mine).

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Every Matsue nation (Lerean Matsu, Terra Matsu, Nere Matsui Hong Kong, Sechwick Matsue, and S[h]inpan Nippon (and soon Leemaria, acquired)) all use the Mätsuê Dolerä. 1MD is equivalent to 5USD and 1USD is equivalent to .20MD.

The abysmali currency is the 'totally inflated yen'. It has the name, because government can't control the inflation that is ravaging our country. That is partly because a great amount of money is counterfeit. Today, one US$ is 14,886TIY, tomorrow, it'll be totally different

the Benevolent Dictatorship of Felimid MacFal uses cow chips as currency. These "cow chips" are not actually cattle excriments but small black plastic disks that have absolutely no value outside the nation of Felimid MacFal. This is to encourage people to stay inside of Felimid MacFal (due to the sheer uselessness of their currency if they decide to leave) and to discourage immagrents (due to the sheer uselessness of their currency if they decide to enter.) Any international trade that involves the nation of Felimid MacFal is run on the barter system.

Inside of the Benevolent Dictatorship of Felimid MacFal one cow chip has roughly the same buying power as one U.S. dollar, at any given time.

Commie geld

1 commie geld is roughly 1€

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FIA does not have a currency per se. We hold data.

For the purposes of generating our own wealth we charge our clients a fee, calculated to serve both their and our interests to the mutual benefit of all.

Our GDP is, therefore, held in multiple demoniations and calculations are based upon the Tuple - a nominal virtual currency representing a variable ratio between our service charge to a client and their national currency.

We charge a flat rate in Tuples which is identical to all clients. This way our service fees are transparent to all but the client concerned.

1 boulder=10 bricks=100 rocks=1000 small rocks=10000 pieces of gravel
1 rock=$.22

We don't have a currency so much as a unit of manpower. For instance, you give us the equivalent of $1, and we'll send you a goblin to work for you. They're cheap, they're efficient, they don't cost much, they don't live very long, and you can get thousands of them very easily.

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(BTW: can anyone tell me why this thread doesn't belong into the Gameplay forum?)

Tsaraine's currency is the Tsai, which is not in fact a currency at all; it is the numeric record of how much work any individual citizen has done.

Each individual has a set daily quota, which is dependent upon their job, and adjusted up or down depending on their health and so on.

If they exceed the quota, they get a positive deficit in Tsais. These can be exchanged for amenities (produced by the government, of course). On the other hand, if they go below quota, they get visited by scary men in dark suits.

The Tsai cannot be traded outside Tsaraine, as it's entirely computerised. All outside trade is done by the government, and is usually done by exchanging raw materials (iron is commonly used) for goods or services from foreign governments.

Ehh, there's already a Currency thread. Check in Nanakland's sticky and look for Quippothian Currency Exchange.

I am not asking about exchange rates, but about other things that matter. How is your currency structured, how does it look like, were there any de-/inflations or does your country perhaps doesn't have a currency but uses alternative modells. This don't belongs in a Currency Exchange thread, does it?

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More on Albia:

Al Sahara - copper link, as stated
Crita Novo - barter, as stated
Freidonia - marx - have no idea of value
Greater Barbary - dinarly, same as tosheroon = 0.125 Euro
Tannemirt - dinarly, same as tosheroon = 0.125 Euro
The Overworld - copper link, as stated
The Rainbow Tribe - the R.T. franc = 1 Euro
Titipu - yen (= 1 farthing in 1969)

The Freidonian Marx is a large coin made of pot silver; pictured on one side is a winged money (grouch) bag, and on the other a full-length portrait of Hamlet's father. All very traditional.

Greater Barbary and Tannemirt have the same currency; although both countries call it a dinarly, it is the same as a tosheroon. There are many different designs.

The R.T. franc retains the portrait of de Gaulle on one side and Marianne on the other. It is about the size of a US quarter dollar, but is valued in accordance with the Euro.

The Titipudlian yen is a coin of very small value. It is about the size of the nineteenth-century US half-dime. The officially coined ones have a portrait of the Mikado, but the spurious ones with the portrait of his Daughter-in-Law Elect are actually twice as valuable since they are made from purer metal.

The Guldar (the currency-unit of The Corporation of Tirocinium) has a value fixed at 5 grams of .9999 fine gold. However, the government issues no coins of this value; it only prints notes.

The Guldar is divided into 10,000 Milrays (often called "Mays").

The government prints 100, 10, 1, 0.1, 0.025, and 0.01 Guldar notes (aka 100, 10, & 1 Guldar and 1000, 250, and 100 Milray). These notes can be redeemed for the appropriate mass of gold, but the process is so tedious and complex that few people attempt it. Also, the redeemer must be a citizen of Tirocinium, and not acting for a non-citizen.

The government also issues coinage, in the amounts of 100, 25, 10, 5, and 1 Milray. These coins are of cheap metal, and cannot be redeemed for gold.

Unusually, from the POV of most nations, the government is not the only entity issuing notes and coins. Under Tirocinian law, a corporation may issue notes, so long as certain (very tight) regulations are followed. One of the regulations requires the issuing corporation to redeem notes for gold, under restrictions much like those covering government-issued notes. There are few corporations that issue notes.

There fewer restictions governing a corporation issuing coinage, however, save the obvious one that the corporation honor all transactions using their own coinage, *including letting anyone trade in the coins for government notes*. Thus, many corporations offer their own coinage, but frequently in rather small amounts. Also, no employee can be forced to accept her/his pay in corporation money, whether notes or coins.

As well, corporations cannot issue coins with a value above 5000 milrays. Still, the number of different "corp-coins" is very high, and they make up about 45% of the value of coins in circulation. Contrarily, "corp-notes" make up <10% of the value of notes in circulation.

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Appearance of government notes:

The 100 Guldar note is 9.9 cm by 19.8 cm
The 10 Guldar note is 8.3 cm by 16.6 cm
The 1 Guldar note is 7 cm by 14 cm
The 0.1 Guldar note is 5.9 cm by 11.8 cm
The 0.025 Guldar note is 5.3 cm by 10.6 cm
The 0.01 Guldar note is 4.9 cm by 9.9 cm

All government notes show a major government building on the obverse, and the government's logo on the reverse, along with the value in numerals and words, etc. The notes are printed in "rainbow" coloration, with fine lines, watermarks, and other anti-counterfeiting measure. By law, no portraits may be used. This restriction, and the aforesaid sizes, are also required of "corp-notes".

The 100 Milray coin is 40.0 mm in diameter and 4.0 mm thick. It is dull silver in color.
The 25 Milray coin is 25.2 mm in diameter and 2.5 mm thick. It is dull silver in color.
The 10 Milray coin is 17.9 mm in diameter and 2.0 mm thick. It is nickel/steel in color.
The 5 Milray coin is 12.6 mm in diameter and 2.0 mm thick. It is bronze in color.
The 1 Milray coin is 5.7 mm in diameter and 2.0 mm thick. It is white-metal (aka zink) in color.

The composition of the coins varies rather frequently, but the 100, 25, and 10 Milray coins are mostly steel/zinc/copper/antimony, the 5 Milray coin is mostly copper/zinc/tin, and the 1 MIlray coin is mostly zinc/aluminum.
The coins show major landmarks (that aren't buildings) on the obverse, and logos of important government "departments" on the reverse. Often, more than one pattern for a given value is in use at the same time.

"Corp-coins" are usually the same sizes as government coins (when of the same value), and tend to use even cheaper compostions, tending to zinc, tin, aluminum, or even steel. The exceptions are commemorative coins. By law, corporations cannot make coins with the purpose of selling them to collectors; this law has been interpreted to block the making of high-qualitiy coins (save for the commemoratives just mentioned), so most corp-coins are plain, utilitarian affairs. However, since there is no law forbiding the use of portraits on coins (the government doesn't do so from tradition), most corp-coins show the CEO, CFO, Chairman of the Board, etc.