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       The Economic System
   DIR By: Nerdymidgetkid
       Date: August 9, 2013, 7:49 pm
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       The most basic units of economy in this roleplay are credits.
       They are the universal currency in the Star Wars galaxy and have
       the same value everywhere. Credits can be gained in several
       different ways:
       [center]Getting Credits[/center]
       Taxes: [spoiler] The most basic way to gain credits is through
       taxes. Taxes are collected every week and the amount they bring
       in depends on your tax rate. The stating population for each
       planet is 10 billion, and 100 million people generate 1 credit.
       (Meaning that every week, 10 billion people generate 100 credits
       in total.) Your tax rate determines how much of that money you
       get. (So, if your tax rate is 50%, you get 50 credits every
       week.) If the tax rate is higher than 50% though, your people
       won't be able to get by and you will start to lose citizens.  To
       find out the percentage of the population you lose, take the
       percentage above 50 and divide it by 5. For example, if my tax
       rate was 60%, being 10% over 50, I would lose 2% of my
       population every week. In contrast, the lower your tax rate is,
       the more people you gain. At 50%, the population stays exactly
       as it is, and as the tax rate decreases, the population
       increases with the same formula.  [/spoiler]
       [center]Using Credits[/center]
       IP and DP: [spoiler] IP and DP stand for Industrial and
       Development points. The represent your infrastructure in the
       roleplay; your funding in manufacturing and research
       respectively. You get IP and DP by converting credits into them:
       1 Credit converts to 1 IP or DP. Each thing you manufacture or
       research has a specific IP/DP cost. IP and DP are NON TRADEABLE.
       Each IP takes 4 hours to spend, and each DP takes 1 hour.
       [/spoiler]
       Transactions and Trade:  [spoiler] IP can be used to buy Trade
       Units, or TU. Each TU costs 1 IP to make, but when transferred
       to someone else, will give them credits. However, trade is
       affected by tax rates. If your tax rate is 50%, then 1 TU will
       give you 1 Credit. For every percentage below 50, it gains 4% of
       its value, so if your tax rate is 25%, it will give you 100%
       more; 2 Credits. If the tax rate is above 50%, the value
       decreases in the same way.
       Tradeable goods must be transported to other planets by ships
       with cargo bays. (See "Starships")
       In addition to this, credits themselves are TRADEABLE, meaning
       that they can be used to buy and sell manufactured or developed
       items, such as technology or ships. [/spoiler]
       Finally, please note that for realism's sake IP, TU and DP do
       not need to be logged in spending threads. It's general better
       just to for example say "3 Credits allocated to trade."
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