Stellaris: Earth Alliance

Chapter 127 Liberal Thoughts
"Is it so difficult? Just find a few homeless people on the road, give them money, and then secretly help them support an underground force, and then gradually expand it to control the underground world. Do we want any information after that? What these spies did What are these things, such a simple thing, not only was he discovered, but now he is also arrested!"

Lizardmen have a habit of sticking out their tongues like snakes when they are angry, Brad cursed.

The lizard man under him also said bravely: "Lord Archon, I have asked them about this, and the answer from the Intelligence Department is that there are no homeless people on earth..."

"Ah, how come there isn't? There are hundreds of billions of them, and everyone is really living a good life? How can they carry out espionage work?"

"But they really don't have it..."

Tramps and homeless people have actually been completely solved as early as the United Nations interstellar colonization period on Earth.

Unlike the Republic of Quillak, planets can be freely bought and sold to become private territories.

The human integration government is responsible for the development of every colonizable planet, and then throws all the homeless and unemployed people into the colonies.

The human unity is in a situation of extreme shortage of people. If you don't have a job, it just so happens that you can just drag them all to colonize.

State-owned enterprises will be responsible for the initial development of the planet, and will be responsible for the projects with the largest investment and the longest return period on the planet. Later, private enterprises will follow up to build various livelihood facilities.

In short, if you have the ability, go to the private sector and start a business. If you don't have the ability, just wait for the state to assign jobs. The entire society has maintained an employment rate of 99% to 100%.

The human unity thinks this is normal, but for the Republic of Quillak, which believes in liberal ideas, this is very abnormal.

After all, every once in a while, an economic crisis breaks out in them, and then a large number of people lose their jobs, jump off buildings, and starve to death.

Then after it slows down, the economy will take off again and the prosperity will reach its peak.

Despite frequent financial crises, the country's GDP is still more than five times that of illiberal countries of the same size.

Then there was the economic crisis, and GDP dropped, then eased, and then soared again.

And so on and on.

The good thing is that the country is very rich and its citizens are also very rich. Although the money is in the hands of a small number of people, the total amount is still much richer than in illiberal countries.

Even if there is an economic crisis, there is still money.

Because when the bubble bursts, the poor will only lose their money, while the rich can make another fortune by taking advantage of the economic crisis.

National wealth is still huge compared to other illiberal countries.

Efficiency and fairness are often opposed to each other, and countries with liberal ideas tend to tilt everything on the side of efficiency.

One advantage is that it allows the economy to grow at the highest efficiency, but the disadvantage is that the entire society can easily collapse.

However, this shortcoming has been infinitely delayed since entering the era of interstellar colonization.

The economy has been growing, the market has never been filled, and the economic crisis that would have erupted in a short period of time has been delayed for a long time.

Because after the domestic market is filled, it can also impact foreign markets. As long as the market is wide enough, the efficiency of all-in will not collapse.

The price is that the crime rate remains high, the unemployment rate is on a roller coaster, social divisions are serious, social stability is low, national identity is poor, and hedonistic consumerism is prevalent.

Currently, the Republic of Quillak is extremely xenophilic and liberal.

If the trend of thought completely turns to extreme liberalism, then the government of the Republic will completely exist in name only.

The national system has officially become a global giant, and corporate consortiums will become the actual power holders.

Except for countries with liberal ideological trends, after entering the interstellar world, most other countries have mainly planned economies and supplemented by market economies.

Countries that believe in liberal ideological trends have a market economy as the mainstay and a planned economy as a supplement.

Extreme liberalism means that the world's giants are all based on the market economy, the planned economy is completely prohibited, and the market is in a state of complete laissez-faire.The tail on Brad's back patted the ground solemnly a few times, and said a little irritably: "If there are no homeless people, there must be gangs, right? Recruit some gangsters as informants, and let's give them some support..."

"Lord Archon, there are no underground gangs in the Earth United Nations..."

"Are you serious? Then how do they clean their money? Isn't this kind of thing done by gangsters?"

"Lord Archon, the other party is using digital currency, and money cannot be laundered."

"It can't be washed, so why can't it be washed? We also use digital currency, and we haven't seen us..."

When Commander Brad mentioned this matter, he suddenly felt a chill in his head.

Suddenly I remembered someone.

A certain executive once said that he would implement digital currency regulation and use artificial intelligence to regulate the flow of all black money.

This should have been the original intention of digital currency.

But soon the consul was happily waving in front of the media cameras while riding in a convertible, and then the sniper opened his mind.

This is an untouchable slide.

Consul Brad was silent for a long time with his eyes closed, as if sighing to himself and to the country.

He once believed so much in the laissez-faire economy of the Portman conglomerate. But as the domestic society became more and more divided, the gap between the rich and the poor had widened to a terrifying gap. He didn't know that what he was doing now was still enough. There is no point anymore.

His subordinates advised: "Lord Archon, please withdraw all the intelligence personnel. We must not suffer the losses we suffered in the Field Star Alliance again. Facing this kind of country, no matter how many people we invest, it will be useless." use."

"Both the Field Interstellar Alliance and the Human Federation are egalitarian countries with strong counter-intelligence capabilities. What's more, the Human Federation is also xenophobic, so it is almost impossible to infiltrate successfully."

Brad listened to his men's words and sighed.

"Let's focus on the natives of Alpha Planet and the Rock Republic. If we continue in the same way as before, we can collect as much intelligence as we can. The war between them and the Bazadi Empire was too weird, and the human unity is very likely to fail. It’s not as weak as we thought.”

"Well, Lord Consul, there is actually one more thing I forgot to mention."

"what?"

Archon Brad suddenly had a bad feeling.

"Due to the establishment of the Human Union, the Alpha Star Republic and the Rock Republic, as member states, are now twice as attractive to the dominant countries' ideological trends."

"Now these two countries have turned towards egalitarianism. Our spy infiltration work has been completely embarrassing, and even the original informants have all been caught... In the future, we may only be able to obtain information through the embassy. The information on the other side is..."

"..."

Everything is just like what happened when the Republic of Quillac faced the Field Star Alliance.

Their espionage work on each other completely stopped, and then their own side was infiltrated into a sieve.

Under liberalism, the unemployed, homeless, bankrupt, and those abused by consumerism all have the potential to be developed into excellent informants.

In addition, there are many private areas, and many places are not accessible to the police.

The wind can come in, the rain can come in, but the king cannot. This is not just talk here.

Private estates have their own defense forces. If the police dare to enter at will, others will dare to shoot at will.

Whatever happens in private territory is a private matter, so the counterintelligence work of governments in liberal countries is basically non-existent.

(End of this chapter)