How the Koborg Bank became the alternative to the National Treasury

While I was gone, the following developments took place between Queen's Koborg Bank and the National Government.

Sometime in 2002 it was decided to fuse National Mail Service with the K0borg Bank, resulting in the National Mail and Bank.

Then there was the splitting of the Koborg Bank into Attland Insured Bank and an International Deposit Funds, with the minimal deposit of $100,000, and subsequently $1 million.

Then there was the reorganizing of the International Deposit Bank into Capital Fund, and developing two distinct services: Deposit Securities, and International Securities.

The Capital Fund grew and together with the National Treasury obtains unlimited trust from the US Reserve to purchase on request any amount of US currency for circulation in Attland.

The Capital Fund is given the right to print the National currency, which soon has been replaced with the US Dollar as the national fiat currency.

Kingstad royal estate territories (which are located inside the city of Miklasgard) have used the gold standard darling since King Yarl's return and reconstruction in 1973.

Snapshots of consumer prices and salaries

Ever since I moved to Attland for the second time, I have kept track of the gold price, since last year's conversion to the gold standard, and, most importantly, the disparity of gold prices in and outside Attland.

Right now the gold price is sky high, and many business profit by bringing gold into the country in lieu, or bartering for diamonds, etc.

A little while ago a spokesman for the queen was asked what contingency plans spell out in case the gold falls below that of the London fix price, or, falls to an all-time low world prices. He said that just as Queen carefully prepared for the darling-to-dollar-to-gold transition, the contingency plans also envision the possibility for the gold to dip, which is highly unlikely.

Meanwhile, here are the prices for consumer items, in Darlings, 1000 of which now equal 1 Crown (Royal pound coin), or 37.75 grams. This makes 1 D= US$0.99 (see table):

gallon of milk 2.0 D
12 oz can of flavored soda water 0.7 D
10 miles on Miklasborg train 1D
gallon of gasoline, Attland synthetic Synol 0.5D
rent on 2000 sq. ft apartment in residential, non-central area of Belgerhaven 2 Cr 600D
a sushi lunch pack - 5D
cup of coffee from a vending machine 0.7D
cup of coffee at a gourmet cafe 2D

Meanwhile the economy keeps expanding. See this post on this trend. The shortage of labor can be illustrated this way:

hourly rate for a MacDonald counter clerk 23D
street sanitation worker salary per year 24,000D
intake recycling center worker, per year 34,000D
recycling plant worker, per year 40,000D

Attland calendar and its holidays

The names of Attland months are closely related to Old Norse and Icelandic calendar, but timed with Hebrew calendar:

Haustmánuður, equivalent to Tishri, "autumn month"

Gormánuður, equivalent to Cheshvan, "slaughter month" or "Gór's month"

Ýlir, equivalent to Kislev, "Yule month"

Mörsugur, equivalent to Tevet, "fat sucking month"

Þorri, equivalent to Shevat, "frozen snow month"

Góa, equivalent to Adar, "Góa's month,

Einmánuður (mid March - mid April, "lone" or "single month")

Nissan, exactly Hebrew Nisan (Harpa, a female name, probably a forgotten goddess, first day of Harpa is celebrated by Norse as Sumardagurinn fyrsti, first day of summer. Attland custom is to avoid using and giving women names that contain the sound R)

Ijar, is exactly Hebrew Iyar, (Skerpla until 1300's, another forgotten goddess)

Sivan , exactly as the Hebrew month, or Sólmánuður "sun month"

Heyannir, equivalent to Tammuz, "hay business month"

Tvímánuður, equivalent to Av, "two" or "second month"