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Yes...Them rejoining Russia after only just declaring independance might be a bit tricky. I can definately say Lithuania and Latvia wouldn't want to rejoin(University friends, I am so multi-cultural=P) and they think the same is true for Estonia.

Hmmmm... I agree to buy and sell Gold at a set rate, rather than changing it with the tides of the sea, as currently happens. This is currently pegged at 1000 US Dollars per Ounce. Where as typically people just buy and sell it based on the stock market price.

Might be in time to save Sere...probably not though.

Ross you wanna blow up the universe and save me calculating Grim and Sere's eventual destruction by Dusty?

Mather: Gold = Just under 200 Tonnes Population = 16,060,624 Cash = 6,388,205,000 Money to each Person: 398 Dollars Your economy is probably one of the weaker....If you were on the Gold Standard...You would need a fractional reserve of 1/125 to maintain Norway's current level of GDP... Although at that level your country would be laughably easy to crash....Anyone broughy 125th of your gold reserve would cripple you...or 1.6 Tonnes of Gold.

Sound cool to me, I will have to work out what fraction of a tonne 50 billion dollars is. Japan only has 2.5% of its 750 tonnes in foreign monies....If someone can find out how much of that is Swiss then yeah. TFTA is free trade between all of the nations within it...Embargos are disallowed (except for militeristic reasons...IE selling Guns to, say, Germany, who then sells them to terrorists in Switzerland...) between member states....I guess you can't join then :cry: Sigh, exam time. Back in fourish hours(its only 2 hours long but half an hour there, half an hour back, waiting for half an hour for it to start(better than being late, then half an hour to type a responce. =P

Mather: Yay! The EU is now isolated inside Europe Major, the external zones have left. Anyway Switzerland offers TFTA(Terran Free Trade Association) membership to all countries (Specifically Japan, USA, Australia, Brazil and Romania) and grows moderately, recieving Italian, Libyan and Mexican membership, in addition to Scandinavian and India, which already exists. Specific overtures are made at Canada, Britian, Ireland, Ukraine, Turkey and Egypt which should join up in three days.(Since it is a trade agreement, not annexation is should take less time) Can I suggest we use Tonnes of Gold as our standard currency for dealing with each other...There is a clear limit on how much Gold we each have and it is not subject to much inflation. In other news Switzerland adopts the Gold Standard and sets the fractional reserve at 1/9th. Giving Switzerland a paper money(In Dollars) value of 207,603,480,618 or 207 Trillion Dollars, which is 26 thousand dollars per person. Printing the new money has begun and will be circulated over the course of the next two years, and old money will be phased out at the end of that, over two years. The change over will effectively mean Switzerland's wages and cost of living will decrease. Though the two counteract each other I want to increase my fractional reserve. So Switzerland offers to buy 100 Tonnes of Gold from any country in exchange for a 20 year (Particle Accelerator) Technology Agreement(ie anything I discover, in relation to particle accelerators, becomes yours too) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_reserve Countries which cannot afford this(such as Australia) I suggest talking to Sere or Grim or the EU, the USA has over 8,000 tonnes of gold, Germany has over 3,000 and the EU has 1,300(including my 800) Oh, economic warfare map [hide][/hide]

Grim you produce a surplus every year...Though I have effectively brought your 1970 to present day surplus... And this is a one time thing(well probably 10 years), designed to get people working again, rather than trying to grow food in places which cannot sustain it(As much of Poland can't). I will gain my 270 Gold Tonnes, bringing my total up to around 600 Tonnes. Just ahead of Russia. The end result obviously being that these countries are not waltzable...as has happened in the past. Thus meaning that these nations will not just 'become' Russian or German or Romania, they will stay independant. (Anyway, bed time, toodle pip.) PS. Never check your exam timetable the night before the exam, when there was a similar exam on the day before yesterday and you see it and your stomach drops out of you.

Well its the difference between £2.30 for a slab of butter and 80p for a slab of butter....For a family living on the poverty line I just gave them almost three times the butter. Its the difference between £1.47 and 50p for a loaf of bread Its the difference between £10 for a bottle of wine and £4. The difference between £1 for a pint and 30p for one. The difference between £6 for a beef joint and £2. Three times the food (I don't know the prices in Euros so they are in pounds(I also don't know how much wine or beer costs...so stabs in the dark there)) is more than a couple of pennies to a family that barely scraps by.... I am effectively only going to get 270 Tonnes back for my 800 Tonnes of Gold outlay...but Europe will be changed forever...Well the EFTA parts of it anyway. Anyway I was right, only France and Germany regularly produce a surplus. Britian regularly consumes its load...For the other countries they are looking at 4-9% GDP...which will be reduced to 1-3% GDP, but increase the standard of living incredibly.

Anyway Switzerland tries to put the events of the past six months behind it, instead focusing on its research and education system.

Grim- My sanitation is fine and I am sueing you for Libel. I brought the food to allivate poverty in Poland and other places but was blocked by the European Union. http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-ED-09-001/EN/KS-ED-09-001-EN.PDF I didn't embargo anything...I simply required an End User Certificate to be sure that you didn't recreate the mountains and lakes and continue the poverty. My main point was to stop any European power becoming too strong...

Good point. However it is not their entire gold reserve, and there is the offer to sell to India or Japan so.... Also about 70% of people in Europe don't want to be part of this new super state(Quotes Irish, Italian and Spanish referendums on the Lisbon Treaty)...So realistically Germany has proved itself domineering and ready to drag everyone into war...not to mention to invade neutral countries for no reason but to destroy its rivals. The lower food price is really just icing.

What large part of their economy? Its mainly France and Germany with massive surpluses...The Eastern Territories buys alot of the crops and such produced by these two giants.... And I don't really care about EFTA...I just want to make sure the EU dies....EFTA is just a way to recuperate my losses...TFTA on the other hand will prove very useful in the long time.

It also underlines your over-reaction. In any case does anyone think that the EU can stay together after all of this? 4 people to maintain it. If there are not 4 people by this time tommrow then the EU will disband.

Yeah....Just that EU countries will join EFTA to get the lower prices.... Which is common sense.

Germany isn't a member of EFTA(and so can't buy the goods, and if they were to somehow get hold of them it could not be from Switzerland, since the End User Licence specifically forbids selling to non-EFTA countries)

Grim...The goods were all brought before you took actions.... And Germany isn't a member of EFTA so I arrest the Heath Inspectors for espionage...merely for entering the country without a permit.

Just want to draw attention to the edit above:

Rocco: It takes time to move troops around... Something which Retech forgot too.... :thumbdown:

Actually I know how powerful Switzerland is...After a half year of preperation for the defence of the realm....

Switzerland grimly awaits Germany's invasion. Internet forums flood with reports that "Its true! The Germans are Nazis! They have done this before! Look up Operation Himmler on Wikipedia!"

King Archi makes his first public apperance. He has clearly been beaten and walks with a pronounced limp. King Archi repeats his plea that no one blames Germany for the actions which have befallen him "Every country may have its extremists, but it is no reason to assume that all Germans are Nazis" (Grim I think Dusty caught it best... You have engaged in a battle with a country which has historically been extremely neutral and have thrown your weight around, cutting off supplies of consumer, medical and machine goods for most of Europe... You have continually accused Switzerland of attempting to steal from people, when Switzerland has only been able to offer low prices(Counter-productive move...You denied the benefits without proof of the failings...it just looks like you over-reacted). Your posters have shown you to be a racist as well hostile to your fellow European....Yes, I have done the same...but I didn't want to be part of the EU....You do...)

Sorry Rocco but EFTA is for Europeans only. I do really appreciate your support, but it is true... I am waging war on the European Union. How about a new trade association....The Terran Free Trade Association?

Fine by me... You have basically caused more damage than I ever hoped to achieve and made it certain that Europe will not united under your tyranical leadership for the next two decades. Switzerland holds its hands up and makes a public apology to the people of Europe... King Archi to Camera: "We tried to help you, but you turned your backs on us....But we will forgive you, we only ask that you turn to face us again and treat us as brothers. Do not be taken in by the Fat Cat lies of -" *Blank screen for 5 seconds then a card saying "Due to unforseen acts of sedition by the Swiss Jews the Honourable German people have terminated the transmission at source." Two days later the headline reads "Swiss Guard triumphs over Nazi Sympathisers Plot!" King Archi has been the first to point out that the German people are not to blame and asks that the people of Europe to trust in freedom and free trade.

Switzerland retorts with a picture of a Jewish trader, a Swiss Trader and a Free Trader being ordered out of Germany by a Hiteresc leader, with the words 'They said 'NEVER AGAIN'