NationStates Jolt Archive


Divine Mathematics (MT Open)

Orzhova
21-01-2006, 20:15
Farzan Karlov was going over the numbers for the seventh time that night. These glitches normally disappeared from the record before he could secure a copy, but this time he had gotten lucky. The problem was undeniable. The fact of the matter was, more money was being spent than what was being spent.

On one chart, forty one billion was being put into the government spending. On the other, the spending totaled to from each category to nearly forty two billion. Without the rounding, it was only about a half billion in difference, but that was big money in a small nation. Particularly when the marker was worth nearly fifty percent more than the nationstate standard.

He tracked the corporate records, and their cut checked out dead even. Law enforcement divisions all got straight cuts, and everything checked out on their end too. That took out the top sixty seven percent, leaving the military with fourteen percent and the Church of Orzhova with twenty. He was stunned at what came next.

The military cut even. The Church was getting a half of a billion markers out of nowhere, even with ten billion of the budget being "wasted" in foreign investments. The only possibility was obvious: someone outside of Orzhova was getting an extra cut to the Church through the government. The question of what was answered, but who, how, and why were now raised.

Farzan Karlov wouldn't answer them, though, as a priest of the Church had just knocked on his door. "Farzan, your services to the Obzedat are no longer needed."