Sweden's new sky high Citizen Fee accepted by the Congress
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The Congress of Sweden accepted one of the proposals regarding rising the Citizen Fee to 200 SEK (0.17 gold). The suggestion was accepted yesterday. Citizen Fee is the fee that is given to a newcomer who starts his account in a country.
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The discussion about rising the citizen fee lasted for several days. The majority of the Swedish Congress agreed that the Citizen Fee needs to become of better value, but it was uncertain how much it should be.
The original suggestion was to rise the fee to 500 SEK (0.43 gold) but many felt that such high Citizen Fee might attract lots of gold-diggers and multis (people that create several accounts) from different countries around the world. This might not only lead to the Swedish state losing money, but also to a political instability.
Therefore, as a second suggestion to counter the problem with gold-diggers and multis, 200 SEK was proposed as a fee alongside the original fee.
Two days ago, the proposal went for division on the Swedish forum (results here). Its a common practice for the Swedish Congress to in advance vote about different suggestion outside the eRepublik law system. If the congressmen agree on the forum, then the suggestion will be proposed in the game. The tradition is for every congressman to vote “yes” in solidarity to the Swedish democratic system.
Since the proposal with 200 SEK was chosen by the Congress on the forum, yesterday, the Congress took the final and official decision on erepublik.com by accepting the New Citizen fee. The results can be fund here.
Fun Facts
Sweden usually gets between 10 and 15 new players every day. The new policy will cost the state between 2000 and 3500 SEK per day. Sweden's per day profit is around 130'000 to 150'000 SEK. The Swedish state has more than 5.1 million SEK in the bank.
The Swedish Citizen Fee is the highest in the world. Most countries Citizen Fees are set to the lowest possible number.
NOTE: Do not under any circumstance create more than one account. Having more than one account will lead to deletion of all your accounts. Sooner or later.
Comments
WTF has admin done to the new text layout!? Bold text is gone! Angryness! ANGRYNESSSSSS!!!
Voted \o/
They have destroyed every texts, look at your name when you are at your profile page, a different Font, Wow admin, I hope it was worth making it uglier for you to make more money
that 5.1 M sek is worth nothing if you do not transfer it out
600 q4 mines could be built
@Zoli,
true. But you never know when admin comes with a new inflation of some kind. And its not unrealistic, todays economy model needs to be fixed for real so something will be done in the future. Better be safe than sorry. 🙂
@Alfons
Ah, yeah, noticed it now. Its probably a temporary problem with the CSS/HTML then. Not a new feature.
This is good. We need to take care of our new ones, and with all that money just laying around i don't see why not.
Good work, congress!
Congress for the president! xD
Let's increase it to 2000 SEK.
Radsoc for the president! xD
Keeping VAT high and having money in the bank doesn't help inflation- in fact Sweden has one of the worst MM rates in the world.
Iain, having money wont do anything to the inflation. Nobody said that. Game mechanics on the other hand might change and give us a change in the economy. There is no reason what so ever to NOT have huge amount of cash.
Sweden have one of the best MM rates in the world!