Switzerland Minister of Finance: Report 1

Day 2,056, 16:37 Published in Switzerland USA by Hale Kane


First off, a introduction for myself to the Switzerland players.
Greetings, my name is Hale Kane, also known as Patar333 from the past and on IRC chat. I’ve been a Finance minister for Switzerland several times, but it’s been a while since i served under that position. I’ve also served as a country president for this country in May and June 2012 and also served in CoT as the first time Bank Governor(serving 2 months).
If you have any other questions on Economics, how to make money, or questions about me and my personal history, just contact me here in erepublik or contact me on IRC where i am usually on #eswitzerland.


Throughout this article, i’ll be discussing new changes in this department, points on how our economy is doing and list some goals that I, Swiss minister of Finance, have for Swiss to accomplish.



For starters, new changes to Minister of Finance. As you can see through this article, I have asked someone to create new banners for the Finance department. We never really had any banners before for this department and i’ve noticed Military and Foreign Affairs has one, might as well get one for Finance. For those that are asking about what does “unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno”. It comes from the latin word which means one for all, all for one.

One thing which i heard most Minister of Finances promised to the citizens of a country is to keep them informed. For this month, i will try to write at least 1 article per week discussing what’s new with “our” economy and keep you(the citizens) informed of updates and possible prizes to be won through this article.

Anyone catch that sentence? “possible prizes to be won through this article”? Yes, thats right people. This month, starting in my next article, i’ll be giving out my own tanks to Switzerland citizens who vote the article, so i see that you men/women are paying attention. Hopefully this will increase the amount of players being interested in economics.

Now, onto how our economy is doing.



In the market today, we see prices are a lot better than what they were. Thedillpickl and I several days ago lowered the prices of some food and weapons on the market to something similar to bigger countries and something that lower lvl citizens can afford. Several other players have done the same and seem to be making a profit which is good. Below I will compare the “lowest“ prices between Switzerland and the US.


Prices on eSwitzerland Market

Food
Q1- 0.03CHF
Q2- 0.07CHF
Q3- 0.09CHF
Q4- 0.14CHF
Q5- 0.19CHF
Q6- 0.35CHF
Q7- 0.65CHF

Weapons
Q1- 0.59CHF
Q2- 0.99CHF
Q3- 1.69CHF
Q4- 2.39CHF
Q5- 2.50CHF
Q6- 3.54CHF
Q7- 8.30CHF


Prices on eUS market

Food
Q1- 0.03CHF
Q2- 0.06CHF
Q3- 0.08CHF
Q4- 0.11CHF
Q5- 0.19CHF
Q6- 0.23CHF
Q7- 0.51CHF

Weapons
Q1- 0.44CHF
Q2- 1.12CHF
Q3- 1.58CHF
Q4- 2.39CHF
Q5- 2.59CHF
Q6- 3.53CHF
Q7- 8.19CHF

As you can see above, our prices are very close, sometimes even better than the eAmerican market. Now a look at how our treasury is doing.

Our treasury currently holds 47,800CHF which isn’t that much. We currently make approx. 300CHF a day due to goods sold on the market and taxed.



Now onto the last part of the article, “goals”. And no, i do not mean goals like football and hockey.

Starting from now, at the end of my article i will try to think of a goal that i would like the community of Switzerland to accomplish by the time I write my next article. These goals may be hard, but I believe that all of us can do it.

Our first goal will be trying to improve our treasury, earning 1500CHF to our treasury.
How can we do that?

It’s simple. All you(as citizens) have to do is buy eSwitzerland made goods. I showed you that our market currently has some items which are the same prices as Americans and sometimes even better. As we have no regions, the only people that can buy goods on the eSwitzerland market are you.

So i’m giving you guys a week to try and see if we can make this goal happen. I’ll make sure i count how much we earn and hope to get this goal accomplished. I will also make sure to remind you(the citizens) during the week about this goal in the newspaper.



For now, that is all i have to say. I apologize for putting most citizens to sleep, but someone’s got to do the stuff of writing these boring, yet interesting articles.

Signed,

Hale Kane, Switzerland Minister of Finance