Chapter 136 1985
In September 1985, Nord's first online game, Century Age, was released, which was a strategy war game, and many game lovers participated on the day of its release.
The United States was perhaps more attractive than anything else, when it became a debtor for the first time since 1914, but what followed was certainly more of a concern to Joseph – the Plaza Accord.
The Plaza Accord is linked to the United States becoming a debtor nation. Since the early 80s, the U.S. fiscal deficit has increased dramatically, and the foreign trade deficit has grown sharply. For this reason, the United States can only hope to increase the export competitiveness of its products through the depreciation of the dollar, so as to improve the imbalance in the balance of payments.
At the call of some well-wishers, Japan is boiling, and they think that their own spring has come, because in a sense this will lead to an almost 5% increase in the value of the yen. To put it simply, before the agreement, they might be able to buy 100 yen for 100 yen for U.S. goods, but now they can buy U.S. goods for 105 yen.
Of course, this may not be obvious, but if the amount is raised to 100 million or 10 billion, the increase is quite a terrifying amount, and some 10 billion (yen) billionaires are equivalent to directly increasing their assets by hundreds of millions of yen.
The risks hidden behind Japan were unknown for the time being, until the domestic economy overheated and the bubble expanded sharply, and some discerning people only realized that it was not good, but it was too late by this time......
Not to mention Japan for the time being, Joseph was also a little nervous when he got the news, but he understood that such a game was not something he could participate in, and it didn't matter if he offended the United States, but it would be worth the loss to attract the crazy revenge of those financial predators.
Britain, the United States and France are also smart people, after all, Nord is a country with an atomic bomb and a high-speed economy, so it is a little inappropriate to throw it aside, and some small temptations and appeasement are necessary.
After all, Nord is no longer the small country that was only the size of a city before, and the Western Sahara region has not yet developed, otherwise the Nord Principality is also eligible to participate in this financial division.
The terms of trade offered by Britain, France, the United States, and Germany are worth about 10 billion euros, and of course these payments are almost a drop in the bucket from Japan's separation a few years later.
Joseph has been estimating the time, and he can't catch up with the division of Japan this time, but if the Western Sahara region can develop to a certain extent, then he can still get involved in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Nord has a number of seas, both in the Nord mainland and in Western Sahara. The only pity is that they have never had aircraft carriers, maybe they will cause the United States to be wary, but without aircraft carriers, there is no right to speak at sea, Joseph agrees with this sentence.
The end of 1985 was a very important day for the Ragnar family, because the first royal tax was about to be officially introduced, and the one percent royal tax was not unacceptable, after all, everything today was brought by Joseph, and the Ragnar family should collect this tax amount.
In November 1985, the GDP of the Principality of Nord had reached 58 billion euros, most of which was due to the Western Sahara region, the supply of the Principality of Nord far exceeded the demand, but unfortunately the international market was so large, even if the Principality of Nord wanted to increase trade, it was impossible, and the economic construction of the Western Sahara region greatly stimulated domestic production.
Since the acquisition of Western Sahara by the Principality of the Nord and its dedication to capital construction, the industrial stock of the Principality of the Nord has risen by 15.3 per cent overall. At the same time, several new steel mills and petroleum refineries have been built in Western Sahara.
In the future, the heavy industry of the Principality of Nord will gradually be transferred to the Western Sahara region, including rocket research bases, satellite launch bases, aircraft factories, intercontinental missile research centers and other military-related departments.
Because of the new royal tax, Joseph in the 1985 European Forbes rich list directly crossed the third and second places with a net worth of 4.6 billion euros, and won the top ten positions in the Forbes list of the world's richest people.
At a time when international finance is preparing for the war, a large number of second-hand and used electrical appliances have arrived in Western Sahara, and they will be sold to local residents at a price of a few cents each, and at the same time, the cost of electricity will also be partially subsidized.
Cattle and sheep, oases, these have made the residents of the impoverished areas of Western Sahara develop in the direction of happiness, if the most loyal to Joseph at this time in the Western Sahara residents must not be Hispanics, Moroccans, but these local natives living in remote places.
Getting up in the morning to lead the horses and herding the sheep, listening to the radio after lunch, finding some odd jobs in the town in the afternoon to earn some extra money, and watching TV programs with their wives and children in the evenings is a life they could not have imagined a year ago.
At the end of 1985, the Principality of Nord had issued 326,749 identity documents, and they were the only ones who could travel freely between Nord mainland and Western Sahara.
The Principality of Nord is an early country to use computers for office work, and by this time hotels, sensitive items, and computer rooms have all used identity documents, and if there are no documents, then there is only one way to be taken away by the police.
The end of centuries of fragmented policing in Western Sahara is not far from the same as in the Principality of Nord itself, and a large number of adapted children are starting to attend crash courses.
1986 was an important year, because in it Joseph was ready to spend tens of billions of euros in the construction of the Western Sahara region. Maybe this will create some debt for the Nord principality, but it will be worth it when you think about the changes in the economy.
Railways need to be built, local area networks need to be covered, signal towers need to be built, towns need to be built and inhabited, and if possible, then preferably some large heavy industries can be transferred to Western Sahara.
These are all things that need to be prepared in 1986, and once the basic economic system of Western Sahara is completed, it will not be difficult for the Principality of Nord to double its GDP in the coming year. Of course, such a rapid improvement will only occur at the beginning.
It is not easy to earn 1000 yuan for 100 yuan, but it is simpler to earn 10 million for 1 million, and it is okay to earn 100 million for 100 million at the same time, but it takes time, and the same is true for a country's economy. After the early and middle stages are always the rarest, but one is difficult to rise and the other needs to be accumulated slowly.
In anticipation of Christmas in 1985, the Principality of Nord and the Western Sahara region had prepared a lot for this festive celebration, after all...... This is the first Christmas in Western Sahara to the Principality of Nord.
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