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[!important] The thesis The economy of Cross neither collapsed nor prospered: it converted. In a hundred and ten years it went from an agrarian economy of surplus to a permanent war economy with 27% of the continental product burned every year — and the conversion was made in four decisions, not one of them taken for economic reasons.
I. Age of Ash · 1780-1815 — the economy of ruin
What exists
Subsistence agriculture on a continent with short summers (Climate, era by era). Long-distance trade collapsed. Mining still lay — and all ore is dead until 1787.
Who pays
Nobody. The royal treasuries of the east vanish with the kingdoms. The treasuries of Vladigrad, Aurinopolis and Magnaport are left on the wrong side of the line — and the gold recovered from the ruins enters Rome under the doctrine that the gold of ruin belongs to the Pontiff.
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