Nu-Yen

NuYen is a common generic term for money, interchangeable with 'credits'. 
==History==
After the Fall, global commerce collapsed and reverted primarily to barter and locally-produced scrip. The Amaterasu corporate consortium was the first to rise from the ashes and begin generating a stable currency, which was quickly adopted worldwide. It has since been replaced by the electronic 'credit', but it's not uncommon to hear things priced in NuYen instead of credits.
==Old School DM==
Nu-Yen is a type of currency commonly found in the Darker zones of LATMA. 
NuYen is the legal currency used within LATMA, PACNW, and the surrounding areas. After the Fall, the American dollar and the Euro plummeted to effectively zero value. The League of Hind-Manchu's yuan and Japan's nuYen are the strongest modern currencies, with the nuYen the primary currency for the LATMA area and Pacific Rim in general, as well as southeast Asia; Japan's existing banking centers moved rapidly into the world market and offered incentives for corporations to convert other currencies (at deflated rates) into the nuYen. The yuan is therefore strong but effectively unused locally.
In Europe, the primary currencies are the British pound sterling and the German mark, as both currencies had, prior to the Fall, been strongly gold-backed; the American dollar was not, and failed dismally. On the East coast, where the American government consolidated, this was corrected by simply valuing the old dollar at a penny on the nuDollar and issuing nuDollars that were actually gold certificates; this step that saved the government at the expense of most of the American economy. The nuDollar is nonetheless still weaker than the nuYen or yuan, but the rather isolationist inclinations of the NewUSA limits the problem.
To estimate the cost of an item in nuYen, multiply modern-day prices in dollars by 3. For real beef, from cows, multiply it by 20. For guns, multiply it by 10. For consumer electronics, multiply it by 1.5.
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