Given the very widespread use of the US Dollar in pricing of goods for international trade, the Solomani area could be using a currency called the "Dollar".
The
Solomani Confederation (SC) book had illustrations of coins.
I tend to think of the SC as somewhat like the "European Union" so I imagine something based upon that analogy would be better, a Sollie version of the "Euro", perhaps a "Terro" or some such. "Sollie" sounds terrible.
A currency used throughout the CF. Supplemented by member currencies and local trade blocs... And the like.
The territorial Aslan and Vargr could make use a currency derived from the term for the amount of land needed to support a pride or a pack. The same could hold true for the K'kree, except based on the amount of land required to feed one adult.
For
Aslan, I see something based upon the Tlaukhu and something that holds value across the clans, certainly land-based, but perhaps somewhat more symbolic in nature. And probably based upon a territorial futures market.
With
Vargr, I see the Julian Protectorate as a basis for a supra-polity. It has everything in place to give the Extents more structure. And its loose enough to not over-irritate the Vargr sensibilities... While readily demonstrating the benefits of larger group actions.
Imagine if the Vargr were the Celts-Gauls-Britons-Germanics, etc. facing the Imperial Romans and suddenly become united in action rather than little chunks getting ready to be bitten off... I can see it as a viable story arc. Untilt he virus and all that mess hits. Then it's "do-over" time...
Ranch land and pasture in the US are referred to in terms of animal-unit-months, that being the amount of land required to support one animal unit of 1,000 pounds for one month. With good pasture, you might have more than one month per acre, with some Western US ranch land, it might take 12 or more acres to equal an animal-unit-month. I have no idea on how the translation of animal-unit-month would be in K'kree, but it at least represents a base to start from.
I don't think the
K'kree have concrete concepts of land ownership. I think, with them, it's all or nothing. Much closer to early Native-American or indigenous central Asiatic thought (Cumans, Pechenegs, Kumiks, Chukchi, etc.).
Check out a story called "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" by Leo Tolstoy.
External Link: [
http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/2738/ ]
I think the psychology of the K'kree is much more macro-socially oriented. Less rugged individualism and much more socialism and commune-style living. Central authority, if you will, through a distributed network. Think Israeli Kibbutz, but not Moshav. Think Native-American lodge and gift or honor economy. Think Potlatch. Think Whuffie.
As the Droyne are familiar with the use of Coyns in their society, they may use a currency based on them or derived from them, with the images on the currency representing Positive Concepts. The greater the strength of the Positive, the greater the value of the coin or currency.
I put thought into this too.
Droyne currency.
In my brainstorming, I cam up with the idea of a psionic charge being imbued into coins. With the idea that psionics have a charge, positive, neutral, or negative. Droyne can sense this psionic charge. So can Zhodani, but to a lesser degree, not so well or finely tuned as Droyne.
Casting coins have a positive psionic charge the same as conventional organic life.
Negative-charged coins have the same reading as minerals and items not considered traditionally alive by the loose definitions of life held by the Solomani and other carbon-water-based life forms.
Truly neutral charged items are rare and take some doing as well as significant psionic engineering. This is what the Droyne use for coins. Psionically neutral coins, very useful to psion in that they can easily have their psionic polarity changed.
So a casting coin would already be psionically positive, and useful for Droyne in psionic activity whereas a psionically neutral currency would be like a neutral alchemical item, useful as a sort of "philosopher's stone" in its flexibility.
Just some brainstorming...
Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.
