¶ Economy Features
The economy of Nations is player-driven. The vast majority of items are produced by players, and there is no server-run shop that purchases or sells items. Items are traded through the Global Market (/ah) or player shops (/market), and detailed price and volume statistics are available for every good that is sold on the server market (/value, /toptraded).
¶ Currency
Nations' economy is based on the Gold Standard.
Gold Ingots and Silver Ingots are exchanged with money in Bank plots using /bank .Towns are able to set a town plot as a Bank plot using /plot set bank.
- $9 per Gold Ingot.
- $4.5 per Silver Ingot.
Gold is obtainable from Gold Ore, Deepslate Gold Ore or Nether Gold Ore (drops 1 Gold Nugget). Silver Ingots are obtainable via Slimefun.
Interested in knowing how much money is circulating in the economy? /moneysupply can give you a rough estimate.
¶ Paying Others
To transfer money from your balance to the balance of another player, use /pay (name of player). You can enable or disable other players being able to use this to pay you by typing /paytoggle (enable/disable). Also, you can enable or disable confirmation messages when using this to pay other players, by typing /payconfirmtoggle.
¶ Player Shops
/market search.Player shops are chests and barrels that are set up to automatically buy and sell items on behalf of a player.
You can search for player shops through the map or using our custom /market interface.
Click here for more information on how to create and find playershops.
¶ Contracts
Contracts are a custom feature to Nations that allow you to create server-enforced buy and sell agreements. Buy contracts allow you to request the delivery of items to your town in exchange for money, while Sell contracts allow you to sell items at a specified price.
Click here for more information on how to create, find and complete contracts.
¶ Cargo Contracts
Cargo Contracts are a special type of contract issued by the server. They pay players for shipping items between towns using Movecraft ships.
¶ Global Market
The Global Market is a menu used for fast and easy global trading. All players can view the items currently being sold through the /ah menu, but can only buy and sell items while standing in a shop plot of a nation's capital town.
Click here for more information on trading in the Global Market and its various functionalities.
¶ Wealth Command
The wealth command allows you to see the total balance of a town/nation and a breakdown of its sources. Use it by typing /wealth [town/nation] <name of town/nation>.
It also shows the Gini coefficient of the town or nation.
You can view the wealthiest towns and nations using /wealth top [town/nation] [total/mean/median].
¶ Market Statistics
- You can view the market price of an item using the value command:
/value <item> <amount>. The value command uses data from past transactions through player shops and the Global Market.- The command will display three prices: the mean, median and mode.
- It will also show the quantity and total value of the item traded over the past 30 days.
- You can view the top traded items (measured by either total quantity or value traded) using
/toptraded [quantity/value] [time period to use data from, in days] [optional page number].- For example, to view the top traded items by quantity over the past 7 days, type
/toptraded quantity 7.
- For example, to view the top traded items by quantity over the past 7 days, type
¶ Town Resources
Towns can discover resources that will be automatically extracted every 24 hours. Resources are discovered by conducting surveys. Each successive survey performed on a town uncovers a higher level resource. Higher level resources will produce more items. If a town is in a nation or occupied, its nation or occupying nation will take 50% of its daily production.
Click here for more information on how discovering and extracting resources work.
¶ Other Economy Changes
- Gold is not affected by the Luck multiplier of Slimefun's Enhanced Furnaces when smelting.
- Gold Ore in the Nether always drops 1 Gold Nugget.
- Villagers, Zombie Villagers, Wandering Traders, and villages and pillager outposts are disabled in Nations.
¶ Taxes
What good is running a town or nation without extracting your residents' hard-earned wealth? Taxes may be unpopular, but they can be an effective way to raise funds if used wisely.
¶ Income Tax
Towns and nations can set an income tax to tax money-making transactions performed by their residents. It can be set using /t set incometax <percentage> for towns and /n set incometax <percentage> for nations. The maximum income tax is 25%.
Example: Suppose a resident earns $1,000 by selling gold or items, and their town's income tax is 10%. The town will receive $100 (10% of $1,000), leaving the resident with $900 in revenue.
Towns and nations will not collect income tax from members with the taxfree town or nation rank, respectively. Income tax will not be collected from residents whose towns are occupied.
¶ Nation Wealth Tax
Anyone with the ability to change nation taxes can set a wealth tax for their nation. Wealth tax is levied on the balances of all nation residents and is collected every real-life day.
¶ Modes
Wealth tax has two modes:
- Percentage (default), which takes a percentage from residents' balances. Maximum rate is 2%.
- Lump-sum, which takes a fixed amount of money from residents' balances. Maximum rate is $72.
If the difference is not clear, suppose a resident has $100:
- If the wealth tax is a percentage - say, 1% - then the resident will pay $2 in taxes (1% of $200).
- If the wealth tax is a lump-sum - say, $50 - then the resident will pay $50 in taxes.
Wealth tax is set by typing /n set wealthtax <rate>. The two modes can be switched between using /n toggle wealthtaxpercent.
¶ Eligibility
Wealth tax is collected from all residents in the nation, except:
- Residents with the
taxfreenation rank. - Residents of towns under foreign occupation.
¶ Occupation Tax
Main article: Occupation - Occupation Tax
Occupation tax is similar to wealth tax, but is only levied on residents of towns that a nation occupies.