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For questions relating to the procedures, technologies, and processes of finance. Finance questions may concern any entity of size from an individual or small company to the economics of galaxies.

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As a disclaimer: I'm working on a dark comedy setting where it's a generic soft fantasy with the aim of parodying the likes of DnD and GoT and LOTR, so things might be a bit whack. So our cheerful ...
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Wider backstory to the problem: We have a microstate, amongst many other microstates. All these microstates are part of a wider political entity (lets just generically call it 'The Suzerain'). There ...
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Tomorrow, a random hunter in Wyoming magically recieves an alien sniper rifle from the future. This is a high-tech weapon that is capable of seeing through walls, shooting through walls, has a light-...
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To put a long story short, we have a land bridge between two political bodies. The bodies of whatever surrounding the land bridge is toxic and impassable. Other land bridges exist. The individuals ...
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I'm the chief bean counter of a junta (based out of one city-state with crumbling infrastructure, rampant poverty and a food production deficit) and I'm tasked with easing/fixing the budgetary deficit....
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Imagine someone wanting to live in and around one big city, like London or New York, while concealing both all traces of their real identity and - crucially - where they lived. The latter to the point ...
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Let's assume, a legislation was passed that allowed people in Europe to enter into voluntary slavery. Everyone could choose to sell themselves. When you sell yourself, you become the full property of ...
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I've now asked some questions about the viability of a pure mana economy, and the answer is that it could work. I don't yet have a full world in mind for this, I'm mostly building up what a viable ...
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In one of the later episodes (I can't remember which, just edit this post pls if you do) on The Event, an NBC TV series from 2010 to 2011, someone (I can't remember their name) asks Thomas (acted by ...
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Modern earth, no magic. Only difference is that a small percentage (~1%) of the population are biologically immortal, they can die by accidents/murder/etc but are immune to old age and disease (they ...
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One of the most common answer tropes to the "start-your-life-over-at-x-age-with-all-your-current-memories"-question is people saying that they'd buy Bitcoin or invest in Stock XYZ that they ...
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Let's say that a small group (around 20 or so) of well-equipped, highly intelligent ETs have secretly made their way on to Earth. They have all the knowledge they need of our various languages and ...
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The gold standard is a monetary system where a country's currency or paper money has a value directly linked to gold. The U.S.A (United States of Amestris) operated on this standard, allowing the ...
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I asked a similar question on the History Stack Exchange, but it was suggested I might get better feedback here. How can you guarantee atomicity of a transaction in a high-latency system? High-latency ...
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Let's imagine a scenario, where, in a dystopic industrial society, a mayor of a medium-sized city learns that his city is about to be destroyed by some powerful force within the bureaucracy of his ...
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Suppose I create a country where all currency is a cryptocurrency with tracked transactions. All income and outcome for a given country is registered in a block chain. All the public workers (...
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For centuries, the rulers of the elven and human kingdoms have conspired to keep their peoples in a constant state of war with the sole purpose of making both of them extremely wealthy. Given, there ...
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I am working on a story in which around 1% of the world population has at least some semblance of a metahuman ability. Many metahuman abilities are advantageous in traditional employment, and I ...
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I started to ask this question in the Writing SE, but realized that I want both a method and a mechanism, so decided that for the latter, I'd come over here. I'm building a novel where the MCs are ...
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I currently have a world-spanning empire doing great deeds such as supporting the poor while creating massive pieces of machinery and swimming in art and lavish decoration. Surely they have a ...
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Say you're an immortal, who's seen civilizations rise and fall around your ears; and you've decided to ride the wave, the next time the barbarians are at the gates. You've had to keep your head down ...
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In my world there is a billionaire. She's one of the richest people in the world, comparable to to the very richest people in our real world. In the country she lives in, there is no significant ...
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