Capto Iugulum Background Thread

[Terrance888]

And faster. And longer.

 

[TheLizardKing]

I tend to think Drexlerism had something to do with Catalan. :0

 

[momo1000]

Sigh, I should have known this would happen in the Kongo. Didn't think they'd ALL rebel at once but oh well.

 

[Lord of Elves]

You mean a dystopia? Depends. The liberal revolutions never really happened in this timeline, so authoritarian monarchies remain entrenched, particularly in Eastern Europe.

The history of republicanism and self-rule in CI can be summed up in that continental Europe's first parliamentary monarchy is now a military-ideological dictatorship, the United States had multiple paroxysms which can be viewed as coups or civil wars depending on your perspective in which "The Bad Guys" won, uhh...

I'm sure there's more. Arguably the most powerful nation in the world is an absolutist state.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Vinland's been an island of general pleasantness for the last half-century.

 

[EQandcivfanatic]

For those of you interested, I'd like you to give me the name of your currency. I know some of them already (i.e. the Columbian Dollar), but I'd be interested to see what you all come up with. It's ok to have the same name as a culturally linked nation, and try to keep it within the bounds of reality.

 

[spryllino]

The Livre (referred to formally as the Livre Générale from the time in the 1860s that the Confederation's currencies were pegged) is the name, and should remain the name in the absence of specific reforms to the contrary, and was previously to that pegging in most cases the name, of the Confederation's member states' joint currency. It was commonly known as the Frankenpfund, or something like that, in eastern Burgundy when in use. There is a whole mess of subvisions, all of which circulated interchangeably at various different times in all parts. A variety of écus, florins, ducats, and suchlike in almost every conceivable denomination remain in circulation, because everywhere mints separately, but again in the absence of any explicit reforms each member state's subdivisions of the Livre should be presumed to continue to circulate freely in all the other member states.

 

[Grandkhan]

As per the Currency Reform Bill of 1871, Denmark uses the Rigsdaler, subdivided into skilling; 100 skilling to 1 Rigsdaler. The Rigsdaler is pegged to the gold standard.

Coins: 1 skilling, 5 skilling, 10 skilling, 25 skilling, 50 skilling, 1 Rigsdaler
Banknotes: 5 Rigsdaler, 10 Rigsdaler, 20 Rigsdaler, 50 Rigsdaler

 

[Jehoshua]

The Currency of the Papal States is the Roman Scudo (singular: Scudo Romano, plural: Scudi Romani) which is subdivided into 100 baiocchi (singular: baiocco), each of 5 quattrini (singular: quattrino). Various denominations of coinage exist also of varying value of Baiocchi, Quattrini and Scudi.

 

[SouthernKing]

Peru uses the inti (named after the Quechua sun god). 1 inti can be subdivided into 100 capacs (named after the Inca ruling dynasty). The denominations, as of 1926, are:
Copper alloy coins: .5 capac, 1 capac, 2 capac
Nickel alloy coins: 5 capac, 10 capac, 25 capac
Silver alloy kcoins: 50 capac, 1 inti, 2 inti
Banknotes: 5 inti, 10 inti, 20 inti, 50 inti, 100 inti, 500 inti, 1000 inti

After independence in the 1870s, Peru continued to by and large use Spain's currency. It was not until 1881, when the National Bank of Peru was formed, that the inti came into use. These currency names were chosen due to a post-independence resurgence of interest in the Inca Empire. Until the Great War, gold coins were used alongside banknotes for some denominations over 2 inti; however, in the 1910s, these were gradually phased out in favor of paper currency. Gold coins for bullion are still minted.

 

[Circuit]

The British pound. Carry on, old chap.

 

[JohannaK]

Adjuuramark runs on African pounds, each divided into 100 dravots.

 

[momo1000]

Kongo uses the kejsarenskrona (plural kejsarenskronor) as its currency, which is informally known simply as the krona (plural kronor). It is the same currency used before the Revolution, and continues to be circulated in Afrika by the Skandinavisk Riksbank. One krona can be broken up into 100 öre copper coins. Different krona bills feature different Emperors (the 20 kr bill features Kristian I, the 50 kr features the legendary Viking King Cnut the Great, the 100 kr bill features Harald II, the 500 kr features Kristina II, and the 1000 kr features Gustav IV Adolph).

 

[Immaculate]

catalonia uses whatever the spanish used in this reality. with time we will develop a separate currency.
We've already approached the galacians and basque regarding a shared currency and have been rebutted but we'll try again throughout the future.

 

[theDright]

IC: The Argentine currency is the Argentine peso (A$), which is subdivided into 100 centavos. Coins exist in denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10, 25, and 50 centavos and 1 peso, and , while bills exist for 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 250, 500, and 1000 pesos. In addition, coins like the republico, worth 1/8 peso, and an escudo, worth 2 pesos are still regarded as tender from the era prior to decimalization.

OOC: Great Depression, here we come!

 

[bestshot9]

The Roman Empire uses a Solidus, which is made up of 100 Follis. Not sure what the plural form of either of those words are, so I'll leave that up to you to decide.

 

[Lord of Elves]

Kongo uses the kejsarkrona (plural kejsarkronor) as its currency, which is informally known as the krona (plural kronor). It is the same currency used before the Revolution, and continues to be circulated in Afrika by the Skandinavisk Riksbank. One krona can be broken up into 100 öre copper coins. Different krona bills feature different Emperors (the 20 kr bill features Kristian I, the 50 kr features the legendary Viking King Cnut the Great, the 100 kr bill features Harald II, the 500 kr features Kristina II, and the 1000 kr features Gustav IV Adolph).

I have no objection to the kejsarkrona, though I'm dubious anyone but the most insistent monarchist would put Gustav IV Adolph on currency. By the end of his reign he was regarded as a senile, reactionary monarch whose anti-Catholic obsessions had nearly brought Sweden to ruin.

The Workers' Commonwealth uses the republikdaler, which is divided into various units featuring the cog and wheat stalk emblem of the Revolution, a portrait of First Proletarian Mannerheim and sometimes a portrait of Revolutionary figures like the poet and pamphleteer Ibsen or the head of the Steelworkers' League, Andersson Lundeberg.

 

[TheLizardKing]

I'm not an expert on currency, but research shows the best thing for the Imperial German Union to use would still just be the Mark.

 

[J.K. Stockholme]

While Occitanian livres are the primary currency, like in the former Confederation, there are various subdivisions, such as écu, sous, deniers, which kick around at various exchange rates, but less abundantly than in the former Confederation due to central minting.

 

[m.t.cicero]

Guangxi uses the Guangxi Dollar, or GXD, also known as the 广西元 (Guǎng xī yuán) in Chinese. Because of Guangxi's dominion status, its value is pegged to the British pound.