Star Atlas

Star Atlas: Possible IRL Future Value of POLIS using…Economics and Accounting 😃

I’m an avid follower of Economics. Ever since my first exposure at high school, the experience of apply concepts like ‘Rational Self Interest’ to real life has been a fun past time. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is one of my favourite books (and you should definitely have a read!)

So when a game came along promising to include an entire intergalactic economy I was hooked. Supply and demand. Governance and taxation. A transactional currency coupled with a governance token. A play to earn game with real life consequences.

Oh my!!!

My mind went (and continues to go) wild. Visions of capital markets funding expeditions to explore the galaxy filled my mind. A galactic insurance agency efficiently reducing the risk of exploring a galaxy was pretty much a guarantee in my mind. Incentive systems and taxation approaches.

In short, a petri dish of (virtual) opportunity.

It also promises to be an extraordinarily awesome game (just in case economics doesn’t fill you with as much exuberance as me 😃).

However, before I got too excited about all the in game opportunities, I thought…