Currently, Lucky was in Mutant City.
This city was the current newest city built in Pandora.
Surprisingly, this city had the most human population in Pandora.
Over the last couple of months, huge waves of humans immigrated to Mutant City.
Of the 150,000+ population, more than 60% were humans.
The reason? Money.
As a frontier city built deep within Mutant Forest, many powerful mutants threatened the city's safety.
And thus, Pandora changed several of its policies regarding Mutant City.
Trade was without much regulation.
Taxes were almost entirely lifted.
And you don't need to have a citizenship document in order to migrate.
Lucky set all of these policies to last for the next 50 years.
As a result, word travelled to Pandora's closest ally, the Republic of Avant.
Once a kingdom, but now a parliementary republic with not even a ceremonial royal family.
The only human nation in the East continent.
This spread of rumours were a deliberate move by Lucky.
From all of the intelligence gathered by Erina and her underlings, Avant was currently struggling to keep its economy stable.
Due to its location of being sandwiched between the Straight Sea and the Tigrus Mountains, the Republic of Avant was a human nation that relied on the trade of minerals and fish.
But due to the current unending wars in the East continent, it could only rely on trade with the West continent.
And as the West continent was also gearing towards war in these recent years, trade would surely slow down after war begins.
And thus, Lucky spread the rumours that there was a new place to make money.
But surely a journey to such a treacherous place would deter the Avant citizens from going there, right?
Well, wrong.
Desperate people tend to do desperate acts.
Today, the current ruler of Avant was visiting Mutant City.
Of course, it was all planned beforehand with Lucky.
In a brightly lit office, inside a private mansion of Lucky in Mutant City, Prime Minister Gerald Von Chauna sat nervously.
In just a couple minutes, he would soon meet the Sovereign of Pandora. A very powerful Vampire Progenitor from what he had heard.
To ease his worries, he looked around the room to distract himself.
Fortunately, it did distract him.
But it distracted him in the weirdest way possible.
'What.... is that?'
A small long object on top of a table far from his seat.
No, a bunch of small long objects attached to each other.
But before he could go over to the object, Lucky entered the room.
Prime Minister Gerald returned to sitting in a straight pose hurriedly.
Lucky knew that the object had caught the man's eyes.
"I see that you're curious about that toy over there, but before we discuss about that, let's talk real business first," spoke Lucky.
"Ahem, shall we?" Said Gerald.
"Now, what brings you here? Let me guess, it's about the mass exodus from your nation?" Asked Lucky.
"That's part of it, but there's more," spoke Gerald.
"Oh? Go on," spoke Lucky, intrigued at it.
"Well, first of all, yes we're worried that our people are mass-migrating to Pandora. But that's not the main issue. The main issue is those trade policies only benefit the individuals coming to Pandora, and not Avant," explained Gerald.
"We've already made it clear that they don't require Pandora's citizenship papers, didn't we? What's stopping them from coming back to Avant after they've built up wealth here first? And I'm pretty sure the Avant citizens that made it big here are selling their procured materials to Avant as well as trading with them on other stuff as well," spoke Lucky.
"While those two things are true, they remain the minority. Pandora's Credits are roughly 1.5 times worth our Avant's Marks. We have checked, the total wealth generated in Mutant City from the past month alone are a whopping 5 million Credits. We have compared it to Oer's, and it's almost half of Oer's monthly wealth generation. Your other cities can't even come close to 10% of Oer's monthly. And the amount of money brought back from Mutant City through trade or other means to Avant? Not even 1% of that 5 million," explained Gerald.
To put into perspective, the amount of money generated by Avant in a single month was only around 3 million, when converted to Credits. Though of course, those were gathered through taxes and other national means, and not from individual wealth.
To Avant, Pandora was a treasure chest. But in doing this free trade scheme, it did not boost its trade relations with Avant, but had stolen its people instead whilst giving back almost nothing.
This obviously frustrated Avant's government.
"We have been great partners for the past, 4 or 5 years, correct? What Pandora has been doing for the past couple of months was akin to shooting a sick friend with an arrow. This brings me to my second purpose of this visit...."
"We have known for a while that Pandora had more than just 3 big cities. Though other nations see Pandora as a small and fledgling new nation, we the people of Avant know that Pandora will be a major power in maybe just a decade if you weren't already."
"Now, our ships have spotted a new port city up in the north just a year ago. And just a few weeks ago, Avant now knows that it's Pandora's. So, to compensate on what's happening in Mutant City, we want to suggest a new trade deal. Since the Mutant body materials are highly sought after for their medicinal purposes and since we heard that many of those materials are stockpiling in Mutant City without anywhere to go due to a surplus, we want to trade exclusively with Pandora through the sea route," finished Gerald.
"Why should we agree to that? What's happening with you citizens is your own nation's fault. You should've implemented strict emigration laws. Pandora merely capitalized on that legal weakness of yours. Besides, they're very likely to be temporary. Let me tell you this, for us, the free trade policies in Mutant City are not the end goal. Our end goal is to lighten the urden in manpower. Once the mutants are gone, the city will become just like any other Pandora city," explained Lucky.
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