"Take these vouchers, use them to buy cement from Scranton, to purchase logistics services from Pittsburgh, to upgrade your production lines."
"Every time this capital circulates once within our internal network, the value it creates will double."
"As long as these vouchers are in circulation, the factories won't shut down, the trucks won't stop running, and the workers will get paid."
"This is far more valuable than giving you a lump sum of cash that you'll spend in one go."
The conference room fell utterly silent.
These old dogs, who had spent half their lives navigating local politics, were all stunned.
They stared at the endlessly looping diagram on the screen, a storm raging in their hearts.
'This isn't some settlement system.'
'This is a state within a state.'
Leo Wallace was trying to bypass the Federation, bypass the State Government's financial oversight, and establish an independent economic kingdom in western Pennsylvania.
"This... this is insane."
