Economy  

PAPER MONETARY Kintlands currency the Kintlandian rubble is printed in Nalviki into different bills of, K10, K20, K50, K100, K200, K500, and K1000. They all have the same simple design exept for the colum patterns on the front of the bills. A 10 Rubble note is pictured below. (K10 Note)

GUIDE TO THE KINTLANDIAN RUBBLE The Kintlandian rubble is a special currency, in that you cannot exchange it for other currencies, and you cannot exchange other currencys for it except in special occasions. Even though the stated "exchange rate" is about 10 rubbles per 1 United states dollar, this is just a value placeholder number. This is all to prevent free market people from taking advantage of the planned economy system, as the following: Say a middle class Finnish man decides to visit Kintland for a shoping trip. He goes to a currency exchange and exchanges some Euros for some Rubbles. He gains a lot of Rubbles even though he only exchanged a few tens of Euros. He goes to a shopping center and discovers that he can buy a new flat screen LCD Tv for about 400 Rubbles, this is only about 34 euros. And he buys a lot of them for cheap, back home a tv like this would  cost about 4000 Rubbles, he takes them back to Finland and sells them at just below this price. He makes a large profit at the expense of the Kintlandian economy. You see, the price tags on Kintlandian goods are  not for the manufacturer to make a profit, it is just enough to pay for the materials and for part of the salary of the workers who made it. It is only there to prevent Kintlandians from taking 10 free tvs and selling them abroad. Therefor, you can only obtain Kintlandian Rubbles if you work a job in Kintland for them, or a Kintlandian with Rubbles hands some to you. If Kintland were to let foreigners exchange the Kintlandian rubble, they would need to raise the prices of Kintlandian goods by an extreme amount, to the point where the KIntlandian government would make a profit on the goods from the foreigners, but Kintlandians would not be able to afford anything on their command economy's salary, if the government didn't raise the prices, they would lose money on every product sold to foreigners. In the current system, Kintlandians can afford all the goods for cheap on their salary because of this. Also because of this, no one in Kintland will take foreign currency except foreign companies and no one outside Kintland will take Kintlandian rubbles. However, Kintland allows foreign stores and companies to operate to an extent in Kintland, these stores such as Auchan sell their products in Kintland for prices as they would in a capitalist country, these stores do take foreign currency like Dollars Pounds and Euros as well as Kintlandian Rubbles at the adjusted price. But other companies that operate Kintland like Apple do another thing, they sell their phones at a much lower cost to just make a profit, but this is only for Kintlandian citizens. To buy a new iPhone 17 in Kintland, it costs about 4500 Rubbles, or only 450 USD, you must prove that you have Kintlandian citizenship by presenting a passport, drivers license, or citizen Id card, then they can sell you the phone at the adjusted price, so foreigners cannot come to Kintland and buy cheap phones and have apple lose money. Car companies like Honda and BMW do a similar thing. And with Kintland letting citizens open private enterprises to an extent, if these enterprises want to sell their products abroad, then the government will pay them the valued amount/what their selling it for in Rubbles, then the government will take the product and sell it abroad for dollars, which they then keep in the national treasury to run the country. If foreigners are emigrating to Kintland, they can exchange however much money they want into rubbles at the exchange amount rate, and keep whatever they want from it but it wont be too useful.