Join the new world

This article will pertain to creating an organization and how you can use it, along with creating and running a company. If you ever wanted to create a company and weren't sure where to place it or what industry to go in, this article will clear it up for you before you sink your gold into it. Then, you'll be earning your own money and helping your country's economy grow like a Dioist falling in quicksand.

Note: This article does not go in depth into economic theory or tricks, it's almost completely basic, normal mechanics around organization and company management, along with explanations on what industries are good, bad, or ugly. If you're looking for extensive info on economics, that's unfortunately not my strong suit, and we'll be bringing in other writers for that later on.

Organizations

Organizations are a special character that you can create. Some buy them for simple muling or storage, some use them for companies or agencies, like the Dept. of Education itself. They are created from your citizen, and afterwards, are completely stand alone: they have their own e-mail, log-in, currency accounts, 20-space inventory, the works. Organizations do not have health or happiness, can't work or train, earn medals, or be involved in voting or politics.

Organizations also have a couple other uses. Should your citizen have to leave the country for voting or military deployment, your organization can stay in the U.S. while you're away. This allows you to access the U.S. marketplace instead of having to break up your gold and buy foreign while you're away. This is especially helpful if you're deployed to a hostile country and don't want to pay your enemies taxes. Your organization gets 20 inventory slots just like your citizen, and can be used for personal storage.

Organizations can also host newspapers and move to other countries to publish, although, you lose your ability to earn Media Mogul medals if you publish solely from your organization. If you're secretive with naming it, you can also publish articles or comments anonymous from your character.


Your organization can be used for a lot of things.

To buy an organization, click here: Organization Page. Click Create new and fill out the boxes. You need to supply another e-mail address for an organization, so get another one if you only have one. Starting an org will set you back 5 gold from your citizen's account.

Companies

Companies are entities that you're familiar with as your workplace. You sign up for a job in a company owned by a dubious silent man, collect your wages, and don't ask any questions. Companies require a ton of capital, but have a lot more earning potential than simply working. You may find yourself asking "Why should I limit myself to being a peon when I can have a power tie as a manager?"

There are three types of companies in the new worl😛 raw material companies, product companies, and construction companies.

Raw material companies are businesses that extract materials from the land it’s built on for use in product crafting. The industries are Grain, Stone, Oil, Titanium, and Iron. Raw material companies should only be built on high resource regions for their respective industry: Grain in California, Stone in Pennsylvania, Oil in Texas or Oklahoma. We don’t have any high Iron or Titanium regions.



Product companies are businesses that use extracted raw materials to craft products we use everyday. The industries are Food, Moving Tickets, and all four weapons: Rifle, Tank, Air Unit, and Artillery. Grain is used for Food, Oil is used for Moving Tickets, Titanium is used for Artillery and Helicopters, and Iron is used for Rifles and Tanks.



Construction companies are businesses that use Stone to craft hospitals, defense systems, and houses. House companies require a lot more capital than normal, and hospitals and defense systems are nationalized by the U.S. government. You should not enter the house industry if you’re starting your first company, and never enter the hospital or DS industry.

Once you have your organization squared away, you can buy a company on your organization for 40 gold. 20 gold will be spent, and the other 20 will go into your company’s accounts so you can finance your first few days as a manager. You can pick the company's name, logo, industry and location. Make sure you locate it in your corresponding high resource region if you make a raw materials company. You can put product companies anywhere you like. You can never move your company to another country or region, so choose wisely!

Your company gets its own bank account to trade gold for local currency (like USD) or buy raw materials and other items. You can access this with a dropdown menu on the marketplace or monetary market pages in the top right of the page. Any earnings from your business will go into your company’s bank account, not your organizations’. I’ll explain how to deposit/withdraw momentarily.




Goodies from the Earth

I recommend picking a raw material (or “RM”) company as your first company, it generally requires less money usage up front and is much more straight forward. You hire 10 people to dig or mine up whatever RM industry you went into, and the raw materials go directly into your company’s inventory, and they come ready to sell. It may take a few days to pay off, as there are a lot of raw material companies in the U.S., and the sell prices for an single unit of RM is simple pennies. Here's what a raw material company's control panel looks like:



As you can see, there are some things you need to know about on this screen.

Your Stock is your company's "inventory", where the fruits of your employees' labor goes. This is where you can see how many RMs you have available to put into market offers.

Your Money Account is the amount of USD (or the local currency of your company) you have in your company accounts. Your profits go directly into this, and the wages you pay your employees go directly out of it. More on company accounts and hiring employees in a couple sections.

Your Staff is your paid workforce. You need other citizens to harvest the RMs for you. RM companies require no more and no less than 10 employees for maximum productivity.

Your Current Market Offers is what you have for sale on the marketplace right now. If there's no offers open, you're not selling anything.


Crafting 101

Crafting products is a little more complicated than harvesting raw materials, but the products are more expensive and the profits are bigger looking. Baking bread and the like is the equivalent of fast money, fast cars, and fast women in eRepublik. The basics are the same: you have a USD account, a staff of 10, and market offers to make. However, you have two stocks in a product company: raw materials and products. You have to buy raw materials from an RM company, which your staff automatically crafts into products, which goes into your product stock which is ready for sale. If you own an RM company too, you can buy your own stock.



Your Raw Material Stock is how much raw material you have for crafting. Your staff uses those raw materials when they work, contributing to Product Progress. Most employees will be able to finish a product or two on their own workload, and then another employee will finish whatever the last was working on and contribute to a new one, so no productivity is ever wasted. Everytime it goes up to 100%, you get another product in your Product Stock to send to your market offers.

Products also carry a bit of a fun part, you're allowed to customize what you make. If you have food, you can make it heal health or happiness, if you have a weapon company you can make it impossible to hit or change the ammo from lead to nukes 😉. To do this, you press that little gear button next to your product in the picture above. Doing so will lead you to this screen:



The more capital you have to upgrade your company, the better products you can make. Mine here is "quality 1", and it only gets 30 points, but this screenshot was taken quite a while ago. Nowadays, I would have 20 points, and it would go up to 100 points after being fully upgraded. Industries react differently to quality products, food and moving tickets sell well coming from lower quality companies, and weapons have a popular high quality market. Do your research!

Other Details

Remember you can zoom in an image by clicking it, as with any educational image in the DoE.

How to Set-Up a Market Offer



Your Company's Accounts



Staffing



Licenses

You'll notice a link under your market offers that says "Buy market license". These are permanent, 20-gold permits that allow you to export your products into foreign markets. Primarily, if you see that your good is selling poorly in your company's country but extremely well in another one, you can buy a license to try and bolster your profits. You have to take into account that country's import tax (which you'll have to pay) and their alliance alignment. If they're a hostile country, they may embargo your company's home country, rendering your license moot.

Wrap-up

Thanks for reading (or at least scanning 😁 through this handy dandy guide, I hope you found it informative. Don't forget to vote, please 😁. Just a few key points to refresh you:

- Use an Organization to build your company on.
- It costs 5 gold to make an organization, and 20 gold (40g available) to make a company.
- Do not make a Hospital or Defense System company, ever.
- Do not make a raw material company on a low or medium region.
- Productivity peaks at 10 employees. Those employees can be of any skill level you choose.
- If your total product sales aren't beating out the wages and taxes, make a staffing change or wait out the market.
- Licenses cost 20 gold each and allow you to export your goods overseas.
- Do not buy a license to export to a hostile country.

General links:

Join the eUSA forums. Help sections, general discussion, congressional hearings, all the action happens here.
Join a military outfit or a militia. Free food, tickets, and company in exchange for loyal service to your country.
Join #tc on the Rizon server in IRC. You can join directly here, or learn how to set up an IRC client from our article here.

- New Citizen Assistance Form, free food and mentoring from the Department of Interior
- Message the Department of Education, give new ideas or feedback on planned topics
- Department of Defense Orders, guidance for civilians looking to contribute in a battle
- White House Press Releases, news, information, and links directly from the President's staff
- Presidential Newspaper, the current President of the United States' newspaper

Until next time,
Blank Keating

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