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—What are you going to do, are you going to boycott them? — the girl sighed. —We'll have the basic dish 1 and coffee, please. (and Bell wants...
—Well, why not, we can fight as much as possible. — she replied to her friend. —We can hit foreigners with tariffs, develop antitrust legislation. We can stimulate local traders and suppliers. But all this is at the expense of taxes, of course. If you're lucky, you can wrap it all up in a beautiful political package: they say it's all for the national interest and small business, and the fat foreigners get nothing. And if you're not lucky, then it's all as you say: crisis, corruption and bureaucracy, businessmen buy your corrupt advisors and incite the people to revolution. The outcome is not very pleasant.
Nira absentmindedly stirred her tea with a spoon.
—In general, it is possible to build a good working system within the framework of a single city. Even so that the rest of the country doesn't even notice. You don't even need to give the region a special status and rewrite the laws, because, fortunately, we have a monarchy and the royal academy of special importance nearby. Make everything "our way" and "for our own" in Alma, a kind of local paradise. Only here another problem arises, of a moral and ethical nature. It will be unfair to everyone else. And the second problem is that we are just two first-year students, not finance ministers with connections at the top. — the girl smiled, taking a sip from her mug.
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—"Club" is a bit of an exaggeration. More like a baton... No, not that. But in general, yes, perhaps we can agree that this is a weapon. What can be said about it? Well, that it's not lethal, for example. It is used to incapacitate the enemy. And, paradoxically, if ordinary weapons take a person's life, then this one, on the contrary, enhances it. Don't ask me how to understand this, I'm not a military expert. I can also say that you, for example, could theoretically learn to use this weapon, but even in that case, it would never become yours. Mana created this world in such a way that only a man can master this weapon to such a perfect degree as to feel it as a part of his own body. And we are not given this. Well, never mind, it's not a big deal. We have other advantages.