Shireroth's economic model is that of people feeling responsible for territory, and paying to aid its development. It seems to have been a clear reason for people to spend money, and to have encouraged economic activity. A couple months ago, Shireroth's economy was stagnant in the extreme. Now its ticking over quite nicely again. My aim is to now get other nations to tick over quite nicely too, a position I am uniquely able to do considering I hold similar positions in Gralus and Nelaga, and as Admin of the SC Bank.
Gralus in particular, thanks to the distribution of funds, is quite wealthy at the moment, but for the most part, the Gralan's haven't learnt to spend that wealth. On the other hand, Shirithians are relatively speaking, poor (because they sink their wealth into SCIRA, and the Gralus war-thing-to-sink-wealth-into hasn't been quite completed yet), but have plenty of skills to sell. Putting the two together seems a match made in heaven, though I can't do it alone. I encourage all Shirithians who'd like some more money to go over to Gralus and offer your services - make them realise how much they need you - and then charge them through the teeth for it.
In first year economics, it is commonly said, "If you make the pie bigger, everyone gets a bigger slice." It may not be true, but in this case, I think it's a good guiding principle. My actions may not always seem to be defending Shireroth. I certainly won't act to ensure Shirithian businesses always prevail over foreign ones. My actions will be directed towards getting everyone involved in the economy, whatever their nation, and getting the necessary links in place so that
, GELT, µ, Natopi and any other SCUC can effortlessly be spent across borders. This is not the real world. There are no tariffs, no restrictions on international credit flows, no need to track imports or exports. As far as the economy is concerned, you should act as if there are no borders. The only thing that creates a difficulty is that we are on different forums (and no, I am not and never would propose the SCUE go onto one forum, nor get a separate forum, that would be stupid). We just need to get the nations used to interacting with eachother and aware of what eachother has to buy, and to sell. When we can get that going well, we will have the greatest micronational economy of all time, and, I think, may have truly achieved that holy grail of micronational economics - an economy that continues to function well after a month. That is, an economy that works!(for all this fancy speech, I'll be on LOA from 1st-17th July, popping in intermittently. After I return, if things haven't all fallen apart in my absence, I hope to begin negotiations with the Dutch Sector, and start working out how we can turn the Small Commonwealth bank into the a bank for all micronations, even if we don't all have the same currency. I know that such a thing has been done before, but it failed, and returning to it is of no use. What an economy needs is to be organic - to grow, and develop with the people involved. The Shirithian economy has done that, and the SCUE is starting to do that. We shall, I hope, grow into the core of a new, sector wide economy ...)
