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Revision as of 15:56, 9 August 2018

The Economy of Kalgachia has several distinctive features determined by the geography of the country, its natural resources, its geopolitical isolation and the cultivated work ethic of its population. It tends heavily toward the production and exchange of physical commodities, with most aspects of the service and infrastructure sectors being nationalised or church-owned as was the case in its predecessor state, Minarboria.

Land Ownership and the Primacy of the Church

Although free economic enterprise is nominally permitted in Kalgachia, it falls short of capitalistic excess in large part due to a prohibition on the private ownership of land and its consequent absence as a tradeable asset - any land not directly requisitioned by central state organs defaults to the ownership of the Church of Kalgachia, each parish of which is obliged to provide its inhabitants with housing. Although the operation of small-scale private enterprises from church-owned housing is permitted, business ventures requiring dedicated premises are only allotted land if they cede themselves to Church ownership (in practice this is generally a formality, with such businesses retaining their previous management and permitted some freedom to operate as long as their activities remain within the moral imperatives of Church doctrine).

Church-owned housing is graded as follows:

  • Local jails
  • Hostels for newly released convicts/lunatics, transients and vagabonds
  • Homes for invalids, orphans, geriatrics and similarly worthy destitutes
  • Homes for the working class
  • Homes for the managerial class
  • Homes for the executive class

The Church pays for the upkeep of its housing - along with other Parish-level public services for which it is entirely responsible - through its considerable accretion of business interests which, even after the cost of public services is deducted, makes it by far the wealthiest entity in Kalgachia (this funding model was originally pioneered by the Church of Minarboria through its subsidiary Shrubway restaurant chain). This has occasionally caused problems of corruption among the junior clergy requiring central intervention, but it is generally agreed that without the moral and spiritual vigilance of the Church against the insidious temptations of the pecuniary archon, the sequestration of such a large proportion of Kalgachia's wealth in the hands of any other authority would be disastrous.

The Church-owned businesses of each Kalgachi Parish are required to tithe a proportion of their production to their superior March, the greatest proportion of that being tithed onward to the Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning (DLEP) for use in large projects. Nationally-critical industries requiring short supply chains and emergency production orders such as armaments and high-tech components are run in-house by the DLEP itself.

The Sanctity of Food

Due to Kalgachia's strict policy of maintining 'food sovereignty' on agriculturally sub-optimal terrain, all production of food is monitored closely by the Directorate of Health and Public Welfare (DHPW) which is empowered to impose corrective measures - upto and including full management takeovers - of any food producers, processors or distributors considered to be wasteful in their operations. It works closely with Kalgachia's internal security service, the Prefects, to identify price-gougers or hoarders. Church partisans do however enjoy the exclusive privilege of hoarding food in their many concealed caches, the partisans' status as a food source being considered essential in wartime to maintain local support during an invader's punitive reprisals against civilians for partisan activity, as well as offering a lifeline in case of the attempted extermination of the Kalgachi population by artificial famine (including on a strategic level by the deployment of mass chemical defoliants or biological pests against Kalgachi farming areas). In addition to this, the DHPW itself maintains substantial reserves of long-shelf-life food in deep underground installations.

Due to a risk inexplicably termed by initiate seers of the Troglodyti as 'Ceaușescu's Folly', the import or export of food to or from Kalgachia is strictly forbidden, with the exception of recreational beverages such as Stalemate Gin. This ensures that the nutrition of the population never becomes existentially dependent on foreign trade and thus eliminates a vulnerability which might be leveraged against Kalgachia by foreign powers.

Important Sectors

Much of the Kalgachi labour force is committed to agriculture and its associated trades; the country faces the challenge of feeding its population with nothing more than narrow arable strips in river valleys and hillside terraces with upland sheep and goat pastures, a difficult process to undertake intensively and requiring large numbers of farmers with a high level of competence as they walk the agronomic tightrope of high yield demand and permacultural sustainability (the latter imperative being something of an ideological hangover, but in relieving other industries of the headache of producing massive amounts of synthetic fertiliser it has acquired a more practical legitimacy). Additionally, a DHPW study of social nutrition during the collapse of Minarboria identified the existence of private vegetable plots, chicken coops and other domestic smallholdings as a critical nutritional bridge between the collapse of Minarboria's fatally-centralised food distribution network and the emergence of the Kalgachi agricultural sector. The preservation of this resilience by a programme of DHPW incentives has inspired many Kalgachis to continue the kitchen gardening tradition of their ancestors, the produce of smaller operations being offered some exemption from DHPW confiscation during times of short supply. As the necessary technology has become more workable and available, home food production has also spread to Kalgachia's underground settlements.

Somewhat inevitably, mining is also an important sector of the Kalgachi economy - most notably gold for foreign trade, tungsten for kinetic armaments, and the extraction of vital iodate brines from the western periphery of the Novodolor Gas Field by wells in Eastern Schlepogora to prevent outbreaks of cretinism, the curse of landlocked nations. The desire to extract every possible benefit from Kalgachia's largely-barren geology has been pursued to an obsessive conclusion in Project Newrad, a scientific effort using high-end nuclear and chemical engineering to extract - or in some cases literally transmute - strategic resources out of unremarkable granite, the staggeringly marginal yields of such efforts being scaled into economic viability by the ruthless exploitation of Kalgachia's geothermal energy reserves.

Forestry is also a notable sector, occurring mainly in conifer plantations along the lower hills of the Kalgachi frontier which serve a second purpose as cover for defending troops and partisans in the event of an invasion. Timber being one of the few Kalgachi resources approaching abundance, much of it is allotted to wood gas internal combustion appliances which propel those Kalgachi road vehicles not running on geothermally-charged battery power. This in turn allows the marginal synthesis of more refined hydrocarbon fuels, plus such imports as may arrive in the country, to be allotted almost exclusively to military use.

Kalgachia also has a modestly-sized textile industry, turning the wool obtained from flocks of mountain sheep into all manner of insulating garments. After an aggressive marketing campaign by the OIEC, raw Kalgachi yarn has also proven popular among the knitting nannies of Nova England for its hard-wearing durability.

The size and shape of the Kalgachi manufacturing sector is difficult to estimate, as a major portion of it is concerned with the production of classified military hardware from deep underground factories. Many, if not most advances in Kalgachi civilian engineering have crossed over from the military industries - most famously microprocessor-abstinent electronics which push the potential of the vacuum tube to a level it never had the chance to attain in foreign microchip-oriented industries. While many articles of Kalgachi military hardware feature macroscopic semiconductors for the purposes of latency elimination, signal stability and encryption, these advances have been slow to filter through to civilian electronics which continue to rely on the humble firebottle if not outright clockwork.

Labour force

The character of the Kalgachi labour force has, to date, progressed through three distinct stages:

  • 143-150 AL: The first generation of motivated Minarborian immigrants, overwhelmingly engaged in the development of infrastructure.
  • 150-161 AL: Large influxes of Froyalanish Community Service Workers, imported from Shireroth after their societal downfall and mass bondage there. Mainly engaged in agriculture and raw material extraction.
  • 161 AL-present: Emancipation of Froyalanish labour and the introduction of a minimum wage. Transition toward the aggressively promoted work ethic of the prevailing ethnic Kalgachi, pedagogically conditioned by the Urchagin and similar initiatives. Engaged in all areas of the Kalgachi economy, allowing the hardest workers to attain substantial social mobility.

Currency

The Kalgarrand and its denominations.

Kalgachi currency adheres to a very literal form of the gold standard, containing that precious metal physically within all its denominations. The base unit of Kalgachi currency is the Kalgarrand (kgr), a coin of 99.9% fine gold at a weight of 31.1 grams (1 troy ounce), 2mm thickness and a very small diameter of 18.08mm. Owing to its immense value and impractical ductility, the Kalgarrand coin is not often used in everyday commerce and where it is, it is invariably mounted within a protective casing. Denominations of Kalgarrand are minted as an alloy of tin with the appropriate proportion of gold content. The most valuable of these is the Half Kalgarrand, of equal weight in both gold and tin although the lesser density of the latter results in a larger coin of 22.44mm diameter. Coins of lower value retain the Half Kalgarrand's size, but with less gold and more tin as appropriate to their denomination. The differing proportions and densities of the alloyed metals give each coin a unique lustre and weight profile which aids greatly in authentication, although this variance is less discernible in lower denominations and generally requires specialised analysis such as spectrometry.

Although traditionally expressed as a fraction for high-value transactions, sub-Kalgarrand amounts are expressed decimally as Millirand (thousandths of a Kalgarrand) in everyday use.

Gold and Currency Production / Foreign Expenditure Data

Year Gold mined and smelted Gold allotted to industrial/aesthetic uses Gold committed to Strategic Bullion Reserve Gold exported abroad from Strategic Bullion Reserve Gold minted into Kalgarrand Kalgarrand spent abroad from domestic circulation Kalgarrand released into domestic circulation Kalgarrand spent abroad from Strategic Currency Reserve Kalgarrand committed to Strategic Currency Reserve
157 AL[1] 150 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
30 tonnes
(from new gold production)
20 tonnes
(from new gold production)
none 100 tonnes totalling 3,215,434 kgr
(from new gold production)
492 kgr 492 kgr
(from newly minted currency)
2,226 kgr 3,214,942 kgr
(from newly minted currency)
158 AL[2] 150 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
33 tonnes
(from new gold production)
20 tonnes
(from new gold production)
none 97 tonnes totalling 3,118,971 kgr
(from new gold production)
613 kgr 613 kgr
(from newly minted currency)
1,919 kgr 3,118,358 kgr
(from newly minted currency)
159 AL[3] 135 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
28 tonnes
(from new gold production)
20 tonnes
(from new gold production)
none 87 tonnes totalling 2,797,427 kgr
(from new gold production)
720 kgr 720 kgr
(from newly minted currency)
3,233,682 kgr[4] 2,796,707 kgr
(from newly minted currency)
160 AL[5] 142 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
24 tonnes
(from new gold production)
20 tonnes
(from new gold production)
none 98 tonnes totalling 3,151,125 kgr
(from new gold production)
686 kgr 686 kgr
(from newly minted currency)
35,973 kgr 3,150,439 kgr
(from newly minted currency)
161 AL[6] 50 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
35 tonnes
(from new gold production)
15 tonnes
(from new gold production)
2 tonnes none 706 kgr 706 kgr
(from Strategic Currency Reserve)
33,812 kgr none
162 AL[7] 35 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
31 tonnes
(from new gold production)
4 tonnes
(from new gold production)
1 tonne none 881 kgr 881 kgr
(from Strategic Currency Reserve)
34,876 kgr none
163 AL[8] 95 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
25 tonnes
(from new gold production)
5 tonnes
(from new gold production)
none 65 tonnes totalling 2,090,032 kgr
(from new gold production)
795 kgr 2,000,795 kgr
(from Strategic Currency Reserve) [9]
34,618 kgr 2,090,032 kgr
(from newly minted currency)
164 AL[10] 32 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
30 tonnes
(from new gold production)
2 tonnes
(from new gold production)
4 tonnes none 814 kgr 814 kgr
(from Strategic Currency Reserve)
33,047 kgr none
165 AL[11] 30 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
33 tonnes
(30 tonnes from new gold production, 3 tonnes from Strategic Bullion Reserve)
none 3 tonnes none 869 kgr 869 kgr
(from Strategic Currency Reserve)
36,198 kgr none
166 AL[12] 35 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
29 tonnes
(from new gold production)
6 tonnes
(from new gold production)
1 tonne none 772 kgr 772 kgr
(from Strategic Currency Reserve)
34,111 kgr none
167 AL[13] 28 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
26 tonnes
(from new gold production)
2 tonnes
(from new gold production)
none none 594 kgr 594 kgr
(from Strategic Currency Reserve)
33,718 kgr none
168 AL[14] 26 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
28 tonnes
(26 tonnes from new gold production, 2 tonnes from Strategic Bullion Reserve)
none none none 411 kgr 411 kgr
(from Strategic Currency Reserve)
33,104 kgr none
169 AL[15] 20 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
24 tonnes
(20 tonnes from new gold production, 4 tonnes from Strategic Bullion Reserve)
none none none 386 kgr 386 kgr
(from Strategic Currency Reserve)
991 kgr[16] none
170 AL[17] 32 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
29 tonnes
(from new gold production)
3 tonnes
(from new gold production)
1 tonne none 612 kgr 612 kgr
(from Strategic Currency Reserve)
66,091 kgr none
171 AL[18] 34 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
30 tonnes
(from new gold production)
4 tonnes
(from new gold production)
2 tonnes none 3033 kgr[19] 3033 kgr
(from Strategic Currency Reserve)
35,412 kgr none
172 AL[20] 34 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
32 tonnes
(from new gold production)
2 tonnes
(from new gold production)
2 tonnes none 3108 kgr 3108 kgr
(from Strategic Currency Reserve)
35,674 kgr none
173 AL[21] 32 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
30 tonnes
(from new gold production)
2 tonnes
(from new gold production)
1 tonne none 3041 kgr 3041 kgr
(from Strategic Currency Reserve)
35,332 kgr none
174 AL[22] 55 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
31 tonnes
(from new gold production)
2 tonnes
(from new gold production)
3 tonnes 22 tonnes totalling 707,395 kgr
(from new gold production)
2928 kgr 502,928 kgr
(from newly minted currency)[23]
35,140 kgr 204,667 kgr
(from newly minted currency)
175 AL[24] 34 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
29 tonnes
(from new gold production)
1 tonne
(from new gold production)
none 4 tonnes totalling 128,617 kgr
(from new gold production)
3008 kgr 3008 kgr
(from newly minted currency)
37,944 kgr 125,609 kgr
(from newly minted currency)
176 AL[25] 40 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
28 tonnes
(from new gold production)
7 tonnes
(from new gold production)
2 tonnes 5 tonnes totalling 160,771 kgr
(from new gold production)
3187 kgr 3187 kgr
(from newly minted currency)
36,018 kgr 157,584 kgr
(from newly minted currency)
177 AL[26] 35 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
32 tonnes
(from new gold production)
3 tonnes
(from new gold production)
2 tonnes none 3219 kgr 3219 kgr
(from Strategic Currency Reserve)
37,106 kgr none
178 AL[27] 30 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
28 tonnes
(from new gold production)
2 tonnes
(from new gold production)
1 tonnes none 3504 kgr 3504 kgr
(from Strategic Currency Reserve)
35,915 kgr none
179 AL[28] 25 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
26 tonnes
(25 tonnes from new gold production, 1 tonne from Strategic Bullion Reserve)
none none none 2987 kgr 2987 kgr
(from Strategic Currency Reserve)
34,555 kgr none
180 AL[29] 27 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
27 tonnes
(from new gold production)
none 2 tonnes none 3484 kgr 3484 kgr
(from Strategic Currency Reserve)
35,903 kgr none
181 AL[30] 29 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
28 tonnes
(from new gold production)
1 tonne 3 tonnes none 3512 kgr 3512 kgr
(from Strategic Currency Reserve)
36,877 kgr none
182 AL[31] 57 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
28 tonnes
(26 tonnes from new gold production, 2 tonnes from Strategic Bullion Reserve)
none 1 tonne 31 tonnes totalling 996,784 kgr
(from new gold production)
3117 kgr 3117 kgr
(from newly minted currency)
36,462 kgr 993,667 kgr
(from newly minted currency)
183 AL[32] 26 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
26 tonnes
(from new gold production)
none none none 2346 kgr 2346 kgr
(from Strategic Currency Reserve)
34,881 kgr none
184 AL[33] 28 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
25 tonnes
(from new gold production)
3 tonnes none none 2901 kgr 2901 kgr
(from Strategic Currency Reserve)
35,078 kgr none
185 AL[34] 25 tonnes
(of a potential 150 tonnes)
23 tonnes
(from new gold production)
2 tonnes none none 2414 kgr 2414 kgr
(from Strategic Currency Reserve)
34,598 kgr none

Largest Annual Foreign Liabilities (SCR)

  • 1,000 kgr to the treasury of the Kasterburg Republic - airspace transit fee in accordance with the Sterklucht Agreement (since 170 AL)

Largest Annual Foreign Liabilities (Domestic)

Gold and Currency Stocks (Cumulative)

Year
(end of)
Total bullion in Strategic Reserve Total Kalgachi-assayed bullion abroad[35] Total Kalgarrand in Strategic Reserve Total Kalgarrand in domestic circulation Total Kalgarrand abroad[36]
156 AL 160 tonnes none 9,703,888 kgr 16,000,000 kgr 19,584 kgr
157 AL 180 tonnes none 12,916,604 kgr 16,000,000 kgr 22,302 kgr
158 AL 200 tonnes none 16,033,043 kgr 16,000,000 kgr 24,834 kgr
159 AL 220 tonnes none 15,596,068 kgr 16,000,000 kgr 3,259,663 kgr
160 AL 240 tonnes none 18,710,534 kgr 16,000,000 kgr 3,296,322 kgr
161 AL 252 tonnes 2 tonnes 18,676,016 kgr 16,000,000 kgr 3,330,840 kgr
162 AL 255 tonnes 3 tonnes 18,640,249 kgr 16,000,000 kgr 3,366,597 kgr
163 AL 260 tonnes 3 tonnes 18,694,868 kgr 18,000,000 kgr 3,402,010 kgr
164 AL 258 tonnes 7 tonnes 18,661,007 kgr 18,000,000 kgr 3,435,871 kgr
165 AL 252 tonnes 10 tonnes 18,623,940 kgr 18,000,000 kgr 3,472,938 kgr
166 AL 257 tonnes 11 tonnes 18,589,057 kgr 18,000,000 kgr 3,507,821 kgr
167 AL 259 tonnes 11 tonnes 18,554,745 kgr 18,000,000 kgr 3,542,133 kgr
168 AL 257 tonnes 11 tonnes 18,521,230 kgr 18,000,000 kgr 3,575,648 kgr
169 AL 253 tonnes 11 tonnes 18,519,853 kgr 18,000,000 kgr 3,577,025 kgr
170 AL 255 tonnes 12 tonnes 18,453,150 kgr 18,000,000 kgr 3,643,728 kgr
171 AL 257 tonnes 14 tonnes 18,414,705 kgr 18,000,000 kgr 3,682,173 kgr
172 AL 257 tonnes 16 tonnes 18,375,923 kgr 18,000,000 kgr 3,720,955 kgr
173 AL 256 tonnes 17 tonnes 18,337,550 kgr 18,000,000 kgr 3,759,328 kgr
174 AL 254 tonnes 20 tonnes 18,507,084 kgr 18,500,000 kgr 3,797,389 kgr
175 AL 255 tonnes 20 tonnes 18,594,749 kgr 18,500,000 kgr 3,838,341 kgr
176 AL 260 tonnes 22 tonnes 18,716,315 kgr 18,500,000 kgr 3,877,546 kgr
177 AL 262 tonnes 23 tonnes 18,675,990 kgr 18,500,000 kgr 3,917,871 kgr
178 AL 263 tonnes 24 tonnes 18,636,571 kgr 18,500,000 kgr 3,957,290 kgr
179 AL 262 tonnes 24 tonnes 18,599,029 kgr 18,500,000 kgr 3,994,832 kgr
180 AL 260 tonnes 26 tonnes 18,559,642 kgr 18,500,000 kgr 4,034,219 kgr
181 AL 258 tonnes 29 tonnes 18,519,253 kgr 18,500,000 kgr 4,074,608 kgr
182 AL 255 tonnes 30 tonnes 19,476,458 kgr 18,500,000 kgr 4,114,187 kgr
183 AL 255 tonnes 30 tonnes 19,439,351 kgr 18,500,000 kgr 4,151,414 kgr
184 AL 258 tonnes 30 tonnes 19,401,372 kgr 18,500,000 kgr 4,189,393 kgr
185 AL 260 tonnes 30 tonnes 19,364,360 kgr 18,500,000 kgr 4,226,405 kgr

Footnotes

  1. ^ October 25th to November 2nd, 2017.
  2. ^ November 3rd to November 12th, 2017.
  3. ^ November 13th to November 22nd, 2017.
  4. ^ This spike in expenditure caused by the cash purchase of 32 Jan-van-Gent VII Model transport aircraft from Jingdao.
  5. ^ November 23rd to December 2nd, 2017.
  6. ^ December 3rd to December 12th, 2017.
  7. ^ December 13th to December 22nd, 2017.
  8. ^ December 23rd, 2017 to January 1st, 2018.
  9. ^ Kalgarrand circulation increased to account for the emancipation of 2 million Froyalanish labourers from bondage and their entry into the wage/consumer economy.
  10. ^ January 2nd to January 11th, 2018.
  11. ^ January 12th to January 21st, 2018.
  12. ^ January 22nd to January 31st, 2018.
  13. ^ February 1st to February 10th, 2018.
  14. ^ February 11th to February 20th, 2018.
  15. ^ February 21st to March 2nd, 2018.
  16. ^ This sudden drop in expenditure caused by Kasterburg's closure of the 'Poroly Gap' (the ungoverned airspace linking Kalgachia to nations outside Benacia) disrupting the physical service of foreign debt.
  17. ^ March 3rd to March 12th, 2018.
  18. ^ March 13th to March 22nd, 2018.
  19. ^ This spike in cash outflow caused by franchise fees for newly-opened Chicken King restaurant chains.
  20. ^ March 23rd to April 1st, 2018.
  21. ^ April 2nd to April 11th, 2018.
  22. ^ April 12th to April 21st, 2018.
  23. ^ Kalgarrand circulation increased to account for the population of newly-enclosed Lepidopterum and their entry into the wage/consumer economy.
  24. ^ April 22nd to May 1st, 2018.
  25. ^ May 2nd to May 11th, 2018.
  26. ^ May 12th to May 21st, 2018.
  27. ^ May 22nd to May 31st, 2018.
  28. ^ June 1st to June 10th, 2018.
  29. ^ June 11th to June 20th, 2018.
  30. ^ June 21st to June 30th, 2018.
  31. ^ July 1st to July 10th, 2018.
  32. ^ July 11th to July 20th, 2018.
  33. ^ July 21st to July 30th, 2018.
  34. ^ July 31st to August 9th, 2018.
  35. ^ Not including exported Kalgachi-hallmarked gold products such as jewellery.
  36. ^ Owing to the inflation of Kalgachi bullion stocks over time, conversion of Kalgarrand into foreign currency is best subjected to a temporal modifier in accordance with the varying flow of time between the Anno Libertatis and other calendars (conversion of Kalgarrand to currencies of nations operating under Ab Nortone, for instance, requiring the sum total of other variables determining the rate of exchange to be divided by three for a real-terms figure. Conversion of Kalgarrand to currencies of nations operating in uncompressed Earth time would require the rate to be divided by 36.5. The Reserve Bank of Kalgachia cannot be held responsible for inflationary events, currency crashes or bankruptcies arising from the renunciation of this advice nor, conversely, the gaming of global currency markets for personal profit by the exploitation of temporal haemorrhaging.)