Cool :thumbsup:

Then Dusty is totally screwed.

How? If anything it would increase the value of gold, since it's being bought and put in reserve, rather than going on the market for sale normally.

 

Switzerland has invited a SSR delegation to Zurich to discuss a gradual hand over of the international baton of banking. While Switzerland is perfectly happy to maintain(by which I mean allow, not pay maintaince fees and what not) all current companies, it understand that the minefields, increasing Xenophobia and recent history may loosen ties. Thus it is felt that if a civil and stable transferance of economic hegemony(you know what I mean) will protect world finacial institutions, without upsetting the balance and causing a massive market crash as people buy and sell madly. (Owing to a company making a loss during the change over, appearing to be failing and thus losing credibility, and stock support.)

Permits have been issued for the delegation and the SSR delegation has been offered use of a Stratos Jet to enter Switzerland.

Also on the table is the issue of electricity, as it seems the power line though Austria and Hungery is not particularly safe, given the massive voltages, and these two countries have expressed concerns over being able to keep the powerline operating admids fears of it killing people...which seem fairly reasonable. Switzerland wishes to know Romanian opinion on how to proceed.

 

 

(NB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_radiation_and_health )

 

The Slavic Republic has sent a delegation to Switzerland to discuss the banking switchover. It has also proposed the building of multiple electricity lines to help distrubute the load and lessen the risk of a catastrophic overload due to over-use of the sole existing line.

Can I too join, Archi? You could need someone with experience in space technology and a terrain similiar to Mars.

 

BTW: We have space technology as an alternative in third-year highschool (1.electric, 2.computer and electronics, 3.space tech (you probably guessed, I'm going for it)) and the Mars probes go through tests in the rocky areas of Svalbard.

Switzerland and the the Romanian Delegation set up a number of meetings with the Austro-Hungarian states to finalise the set up.

 

Its more 5 Billion a year to South Africa with only Gold as your return...if you plan to then spend that 5 Billion of Gold then no worries, though if you do that then nothing has really changed, but stockpiling it would mean less money in circulation, meaning less would get done. Alla Adam Smith

Unless of course you increased the value of your money as you were doing it, but then you would end up giving South Africa 90 Billion for 5 Billion Dollars worth of Gold.

OR

You print more money, but this would wipe out people's savings and would make your goods less competitive abroad...which is fairly important if you plan to become the next Switzerland.

 

 

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm#2HCH0006

 

There are several different sorts of paper money; but the circulating notes of banks and bankers are the species which is best known, and which seems best adapted for this purpose.

 

When the people of any particular country have such confidence in the fortune, probity and prudence of a particular banker, as to believe that he is always ready to pay upon demand such of his promissory notes as are likely to be at any time presented to him, those notes come to have the same currency as gold and silver money, from the confidence that such money can at any time be had for them.

 

A particular banker lends among his customers his own promissory notes, to the extent, we shall suppose, of a hundred thousand pounds. As those notes serve all the purposes of money, his debtors pay him the same interest as if he had lent them so much money. This interest is the source of his gain. Though some of those notes are continually coming back upon him for payment, part of them continue to circulate for months and years together. Though he has generally in circulation, therefore, notes to the extent of a hundred thousand pounds, twenty thousand pounds in gold and silver may, frequently, be a sufficient provision for answering occasional demands. By this operation, therefore, twenty thousand pounds in gold and silver perform all the functions which a hundred thousand could otherwise have performed. The same exchanges may be made, the same quantity of consumable goods may be circulated and distributed to their proper consumers, by means of his promissory notes, to the value of a hundred thousand pounds, as by an equal value of gold and silver money. Eighty thousand pounds of gold and silver, therefore, can in this manner be spared from the circulation of the country; and if different operations of the the same kind should, at the same time, be carried on by many different banks and bankers, the whole circulation may thus be conducted with a fifth part only of the gold and silver which would otherwise have been requisite.

 

Specifically implying that notes do not neccessarly have to equal the amount of Gold in your bank...Thus exchanging Notes for Gold is a little like shooting yourself in the foot...though is far more sensible in the long term, in the short term you are screwed.

Mather I am fully capable of Space Flight, but you can make up the three I am taking into Space as requiste by the UN...

 

The Ship will be leaving in 2018 and arriving in 2025. Be sure to prep your teams by then. There will be a short stop over at the moon base before we depart, so that your guys and gals can get used to space flight.

You will also get to see some of my P-Jets in action, which should be awesome.

Team of 3? You mean team of 4, I joined remember?

Oddly enough I am not counting myself as a team :thumbsup:

So its three teams and the people who will actually be flying and conducting a fairly large number of Experiments

Oh right O_o. Well you'll still be getting the results :).

Well we all get the results, which ought to be useful if Retech destroys Earth with Algae...or CO2...Or Pakistan with Nukes...or Israel with the same...its looking pretty much like the end is neigh...Could be that the teams have to repopulate Earth.

I think I might go up then, and Russian supermodels... lots of them....

 

If Retech is destroying the Earth then every nation will just pile her, same with Israel and Pakistan

Retech won't do it on purpose...but will be too stubbon to stop.

 

Anyway teams of 6 people only, and preferably people who are going to be useful on Mars....And not as emergancy air supplies if we crack open their heads.

As we have quite a while to train them, I get people who are already moderately trained in such fields as archeology, meteorology (is that useful?) mechanics, navigation and communication

Well they won't be expected (or allowed) to do any of the flying (I am pretty much on the limit of researched understanding with my technology, its being launched as early as possible in case everything goes wrong elsewhere...If I need to rescue them later I will be in a much better position to do so), so you can plan any research projects you like for Mars or Space Flight and PM them to me.

I dont really mind saying them on here, hmmm, I have an idea for one... So instead were sending 2 archaeologists, a meteorologist, and 3 tunnelers and miner specc'd people

 

My question is, can we settle on Mars underground? As the surface is bombarded with sandstorms, radiation and generally low temperatues, so if we set up some sort of space underground, it'll be closer to the core, thus warmer, no weather (I send my meteorologist cause the weather of mars is pretty cool too, and we still might be able to settle on the surface) and radiation shouldnt hit us

I'll need at least two engineers, one geologist, one charter(to map interresting spots) one astrologist and possibly one gemmolgist.

 

Some people of with mentioned professions are recieving the required training.

Hmmm... we are going to need more space on the ship....I hadn't really factored much cargo, just my cargo, food, water and oxygen scrubbers.

Ok, I am building five extra P-Jets(Budget Groans) and making the craft bigger. There is a 300 tonne cargo limit so make sure to only bring essentials.

 

On your request, we will be deploying a surface dome, with hydroponics bay for food and water, but outside of that you and your team are free to do anything.

 

Mather: 6 people, plus cargo.

Switzerland and the the Romanian Delegation set up a number of meetings with the Austro-Hungarian states to finalise the set up.

 

Its more 5 Billion a year to South Africa with only Gold as your return...if you plan to then spend that 5 Billion of Gold then no worries, though if you do that then nothing has really changed, but stockpiling it would mean less money in circulation, meaning less would get done. Alla Adam Smith

Unless of course you increased the value of your money as you were doing it, but then you would end up giving South Africa 90 Billion for 5 Billion Dollars worth of Gold.

OR

You print more money, but this would wipe out people's savings and would make your goods less competitive abroad...which is fairly important if you plan to become the next Switzerland.

 

 

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm#2HCH0006

 

There are several different sorts of paper money; but the circulating notes of banks and bankers are the species which is best known, and which seems best adapted for this purpose.

 

When the people of any particular country have such confidence in the fortune, probity and prudence of a particular banker, as to believe that he is always ready to pay upon demand such of his promissory notes as are likely to be at any time presented to him, those notes come to have the same currency as gold and silver money, from the confidence that such money can at any time be had for them.

 

A particular banker lends among his customers his own promissory notes, to the extent, we shall suppose, of a hundred thousand pounds. As those notes serve all the purposes of money, his debtors pay him the same interest as if he had lent them so much money. This interest is the source of his gain. Though some of those notes are continually coming back upon him for payment, part of them continue to circulate for months and years together. Though he has generally in circulation, therefore, notes to the extent of a hundred thousand pounds, twenty thousand pounds in gold and silver may, frequently, be a sufficient provision for answering occasional demands. By this operation, therefore, twenty thousand pounds in gold and silver perform all the functions which a hundred thousand could otherwise have performed. The same exchanges may be made, the same quantity of consumable goods may be circulated and distributed to their proper consumers, by means of his promissory notes, to the value of a hundred thousand pounds, as by an equal value of gold and silver money. Eighty thousand pounds of gold and silver, therefore, can in this manner be spared from the circulation of the country; and if different operations of the the same kind should, at the same time, be carried on by many different banks and bankers, the whole circulation may thus be conducted with a fifth part only of the gold and silver which would otherwise have been requisite.

 

Specifically implying that notes do not neccessarly have to equal the amount of Gold in your bank...Thus exchanging Notes for Gold is a little like shooting yourself in the foot...though is far more sensible in the long term, in the short term you are screwed.

It's irrelevant as I'm paying with USD, wheras my currency is the Slavic Leu.

Where are you getting these US Dollars from?

I'll be sending two engineers, a geologist, a communications expert, an astronomer, and a chemist.

 

I request an amount of explosives, in order to check the lower levels of the soil, and drilling/mining equipment, along with the essential food and such. The drilling equipment may be used to carve out a cave eventually, allowing semi-permentant residence, using Russia's idea.

Sounds cool to me, as long as they don't explode under Gee-Force or anything :rolleyes:

Nah, just stable explosives. Nothing crazy, just TNT and the like.

Can you make sure you research it. Now that I have angered the Dusty he is sure to blow up my ship at the first chance he gets.

Can you make sure you research it. Now that I have angered the Dusty he is sure to blow up my ship at the first chance he gets.

I don't even really have a miliary.

 

Where are you getting these US Dollars from?

My reserves. I have like...80 billion dollars of them.

Where did you get 80 Billion Dollars worth of reserves from?

Where did you get 80 Billion Dollars worth of reserves from?

40 billon, my apologies. And I got them from selling my military.

 

Slavic Republic - Dusty

Currency: Slavic Leu (SL)

Gold Tonnes (Reserve): 1400.5

USD Reserve: 35,735,290,000.00

Norwegian Krones: 5,000,000,000.00

There's the updated one. Though, I forget if I added the South Africa gold deal in. Meh.

 

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Building of a naval shipyard in Constanta has commenced. It will cost around $700m per year (half from budget, half from reserve) and be finished in 5 years.

 

Slavic Republic - Dusty

Currency: Slavic Leu (SL)

Gold Tonnes (Reserve): 1403.6

USD Reserve: 33,985,290,000.00

Norwegian Krones: 5,000,000,000.00

(added Hungary's gold reserve - 3.1 tonnes)