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Subsistence and Exchange of Evanave
If there’s one thing you will learn about Evanave, it is that the country is HUGE on trade. Being by a coast in a Mediterranean climate, we have many resources and we are by a very long coast that provides many ports to transport our supplies. It doesn’t mean that we are entirely immune to the need for outside resources, because Evanave has a very little supply of oil and timber. This gives us a reason to be big on trading because both are very important ingredients for a developing country. This isn’t too far from what Italy is like. Both Italy and Evanave are in a Mediterranean climate, and both are pretty big on trade. Both have most of the materials needed for a developing nation. Evanave is going to start out just like Italy, as an agricultural nation. Within borders there will be a system of balanced reciprocity that, in the beginning, will be done through a market economy. Also, in the beginning, we will not have money; instead we will have a barter system for trade between goods. Within the country this means that different parts of the country will be transporting equal value of goods to each other. They will have to trade with each other because no part of our country will have all the required supplies to make a living.
When we start trading heavily with outsiders, we will make a currency system to make trading between our nations easier. Also, when trading with other nations will be using a combination of balanced reciprocity and negative reciprocity. This will be so that we don’t anger the nation we are trading with, but so that we can hope to get some profit out of our dealings.
Our citizens will get their food through the market economy by trading their goods for food. Citizens will get their water through aqueducts because our country will be developed enough to be able to work with metal, marble, and stone. Our crops will be able to get water through the rivers and irrigation systems for our fields. Beyond that, our citizens will be providing the goods of our nation, mostly fish, foods through agriculture and pastoralism, textiles, metal working, and building. Agriculture will be huge, mostly we will grow wheat, maize, grapes, olives, barley, rice, tomatoes, and various fruits. Our pastoralism will be just as big for managing large herds of animals to feed our population. For the transportation of goods by sea, we will have large boats, sailboats. For trade between parts of our country we will have wagons powered by use of animals. We will also have markets set up within cities that will allow for people to come trade at their leisure. People who don't live in the city can travel to the city along roads by way of wagons and animals.
Our exchange system is different from that of other cultures because later on when currency is introduced. It won’t be strange for people trading within our borders to use balanced reciprocity through goods rather than through the use of currency. This is very rare to have in a culture, and it reflects how everyone in our country works to provide for each other, and trusts each other. If you’re a farmer, you work to provide food for you, your family, and those who you trade with.
Subsistence and exchange fits in with the other aspects of Evanave because the foods we grow, and the organization in which we exchange them really shows how structured, free, and advanced our society is compared to others around this time period. The way we trade shows just how much pride we have, how much patriotism that we would use balanced reciprocity within our own borders, and use negative reciprocity in order to advance outside of our borders. Even the foods we grow tie in to our society because they are foods that would be common in the environment described.
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