Imperial Credit System
The economic and identity substrate of the Maan empire Place The Maan Empire By AC 364 the long Throne War has reshaped the north: the Maan Empire proper rules from Goldenhold under Emperor Theodelf Vissor, an absolute monarchy of order, debt and flame w..., running through every transaction from burial-plot terminals to pharmacy dispensers and capsule-train turnstiles. Credits are the measure of life in the empire, access to medicine, food, shelter, and transit is gated by credit class or subscription tier. The system is identity-bound and stratified, with parallel ration-strip and stipend rails for those outside the credit-seal class.
Key traits
- Operates through multiple credential classes: bank cards, credit seals for tiered-access spaces, subscription accounts, trainee ration strips, and unemployment stipends.
- All major service points, pharmacy dispensers, burial-plot terminals, capsule-train turnstiles, vending slots, are self-service and credit-verified, running without clerks on-scene.
- Subscription tiers gate access to medical care, meaning those without monthly payments are excluded from treatment regardless of need.
- The Order of Randen Faction Order of Randen The fastest-growing power in the Maan empire at AC 50, the Order of Randen is a religious-political apparatus that co-opts the theology of Randenism and transforms it into a deb...'s doctrine frames financial debt as existential obligation, giving imperial credit obligations a religious enforcement layer beyond formal prosecution.
- Descends from the Inarin-era Elandrium silver coin system; the AC-50 "imperial credits" unit is its successor after roughly 1,800 years of monetary history.
- Card-in-hand is sufficient to transact; no PIN or biometric confirmation is cited, making physical possession the sole authentication factor.