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-All four churches agree that the Acra was created as part of the city's founding by their namesakes, and current scholarly thought indicates that it was originally backed onto the royal stockpile of food, with an Acra being exchangeable for a certain weight of grain. This usage had long passed into history, with Acra having value largely because everyone accepted them. In the wake of the Upheaval, however, a few enterprising and starving scholars attempted to make this exchange. After some deliberation (and a panicked look at the gaping gaps where the food stockpiles used to be), the city council (very quietly) passed a law re-establishing the exchange value of an Acra at one tenth of its original value, then ensured that it was published buried among some boring procedural matters, and made some pointed remarks to the scholars concerning how shouting too loud about this would very probably be treason. This law remains little known among the common people, while the exchange rate has allowed some of the nobility and merchants who noticed to shore themselves off from starving. The stated plan is to gradually re-increase the exchange rate as a surplus is built up once more. Everyone in the know has their fingers crossed that not too much is thought about a technical ten-fold devaluation of the currency.+All four churches agree that the Riel was created as part of the city's founding by their namesakes, and current scholarly thought indicates that it was originally backed onto the royal stockpile of food, with a Riel being exchangeable for a certain weight of grain. This usage had long passed into history, with Riel having value largely because everyone accepted them. In the wake of the Upheaval, however, a few enterprising and starving scholars attempted to make this exchange. After some deliberation (and a panicked look at the gaping gaps where the food stockpiles used to be), the city council (very quietly) passed a law re-establishing the exchange value of an Riel at one tenth of its original value, then ensured that it was published buried among some boring procedural matters, and made some pointed remarks to the scholars concerning how shouting too loud about this would very probably be treason. This law remains little known among the common people, while the exchange rate has allowed some of the nobility and merchants who noticed to shore themselves off from starving. The stated plan is to gradually re-increase the exchange rate as a surplus is built up once more. Everyone in the know has their fingers crossed that not too much is thought about a technical ten-fold devaluation of the currency.
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