Overview

The Federal Government of Wadsworth is a special system account (player ID 0) that acts as the fiscal backbone of the entire economy. It collects revenue from taxes and fees across all player activity, holds a diversified treasury, and redistributes money back through city grants, emergency loans, and bond investments.

Revenue Sources

Revenue Type	Rate / Frequency
Executive wages	100% of salary deducted from players, credited to treasury each tick
Business startup fee	One-time fee per business built
Executive hiring & school fee	Paid when hiring or sending executives to training
Federal sales tax	% of each stock/IPO/district market trade
Bond interest tax (withhold)	15% of bond interest accrued on all player bonds, hourly
Reserve balance tax	0.1% daily on reserve bank balances
Land hoarding tax	Progressive tax on large undeveloped landholdings
District tax	Monthly tax on district-owned land, collected automatically
City bank charter fee	$5,000 charged to each city bank every 30 days
Petrodollar customs (50%)	Half of customs fees on international commodity flows
Land restoration fee	Charged when restoring degraded land plots
City bank loan repayments	Installment repayments (principal + 7% per installment × 30) from insolvent banks

Government Outlays

City Grants — Every 12 hours, 2% of the federal treasury is divided equally among all city banks as operating grants. This funds city development, infrastructure projects, and interest payments to depositors.

Emergency Loans — When a city bank becomes insolvent, the government automatically issues an emergency loan to keep the bank solvent. Loans bear 7% interest per installment (30 installments), repaid each tick automatically.

Bond Investment — When the treasury exceeds its investment threshold, surplus cash is automatically invested in the highest-yield reserve bank bond available. This prevents cash from sitting idle and supports reserve bank liquidity.

Federal Treasury Dashboard

Any player can view the full fiscal transparency dashboard at /government. It shows the complete treasury balance across all currencies, the active bond portfolio, land holdings, equity positions, outstanding city loans, active land auctions, all cities and counties with their fiscal data, and a 75-event ledger of recent government fiscal activity.

Multi-Currency Treasury

The government holds balances in every reserve bank currency (from bond interest withholding and reserve balance taxes). These foreign balances are swept back to USD automatically during the bond investment tick. The government never holds negative balances in any currency.

Foreign Land Sale

In rare circumstances an administrator may trigger a one-time Foreign Land Sale special event. The federal government sells its entire land reserve — every unclaimed government-owned plot, including those sitting in active auctions or the land bank — to a foreign sovereign power. The treasury receives 10% of the estimated land value (based on each plot's annual tax × 10), paid in whichever reserve bank currency is worth the most at the time. The sold plots are permanently removed from the game world, and the proceeds appear in the government ledger as a Foreign Land Sale event.