Hey, everyone: have a test. Try to find some iron to buy. I won't say it's impossible, but it is near it; you won't find some except if you ask VERY rich member of chanada.
Iron shortage seems to be everywhere on civcraft. And it goes on. It won't stop by some magic way. In fact it'll ; price of iron will go up as demand stay high.
But, as it happens, nearly all price in chanada will have gone up, as iron is THE chanada trading currency (with diamond, but for shop etc... it is more common to see price in iron).
We have a huge issue with iron;
(Also, as we use iron and diamond, both have their price changing hardly every day, it's hard to stay on a good price).
I Think we can say chanadian financial system is broken (as it doesn't exist, in fact)...
Here is my solution for the issue. Iron is highly used as a currency (all price are in it, and I usually stockpile some just to be able to buy goods with it ). But there is a shortage, so we need to use something else as a currency; There is diamond, that's true, it is in fact the BEST alternative we have, its price is quite stable and there is plenty of it.
But we cannot do all echange in diamond, it is too big to be used as a currency .
I think Chanada need its own paper currency. I know it failed in past in Volk because of some heist [nervously look on immer direction]. Reichmarks won't had worked anyway; it was on iron and diamond; But iron and diamond's price change. If the rate d => i change, we change the currency with i or d ? It wasn't a good idea.
Chanada is enoughly big to have its own currency, I think.
So , we need a paper currency based on diamond. Let's make it, with a money, for example, worth a tenth of a diamond, make bank everywhere to start use it, and soon we will have huge amount of diamond.
For it, we need a central bank and a big vault to stockpile diamond's currency value.
But having huge pile of diamond in vault is useless.
Just use them to boost economy.Let people borrow some of it (without interest rate, it hurts so much economy. In fact, we should extend the "NO USURY ALLOWED" thing of /pol/ to all chanada).
I know some will not like this idea, but, seriously, it'll flourish chanadian economy.
Also, even if chanadian leaders reject it, I'll keep it for my State, I don't want people to be forbide to buy things because "muh, iron as currency".
I hope this text is understandable, remember english isn't my native language, also, if there is something you don't understand from an economical point of view, ask me, I'll answer.