Bortheruc Trade Company

The Bortheruc Trade Company, both commonly known and referred as the B.T.C, is an organized federation, founded by player Silver_Wolves, of once independent sea-fairing traders and merchants, active in the South Antarctic Sea, of the continent Kejafros, organized into a centralized corporate bureaucratic structure, centered around the concepts of unilateral co-operation and partnership between market connoisseurs in a united trade network, for more readily bolstered opportunities for business and market exploitation. The Bortheruc Trade Company has its corporation centered in the port town of Bortheruc, a land claim in the continent of Kejafros, and in the subcontinent of Budgeford, and as well developed on the lands of the nation of Zilatra, in where the port city Bortheruc is a province (or commune) within and in where the Bortheruc Trade company, operates out of. 
=== Governance and Organization ===
The bureaucratic centralized corporate structure in which comprises the governance of the Bortheruc Trade Company, in similarity to most common forms of governance in oligarchies, most 
Often is understood as a business, acting at the level of a semi-autonomous political entity on the world stage. The company is, for the most party self-governing, and the self-determining is regards, to the governance of its owned lands and holdings (referred to as market sectors). The company is also self-determining when it comes to topics such as politics, law, diplomacy, economy, and military/war. This doesn't make the entity a fully autonomous, independent geopolitical entity on the world stage, however, as the trading company, most often more than not, maintains only partial ownership, over a its market sectors, of in which, in most cases are built upon the land of other nations, which only are leased out to the Bortheruc Trading Company. This means all market centers owned by the B.T.C, technically are incorporated provinces under the jurisdiction of the sovereign nation and or political entity, in which the land the market centers are built upon, is leased by, but under the management, of the trade company, on a local government level. In essence, the trade company acts as a local government to towns and leases out and develops in other nations territory,for business, while on a federal level, the land is run by the nation, with regards to the insights of the trading company.
=== History ===
==== Basis For Foundation ====
When regarding the Economic Histories of Stoneworks, and the timeline of in which The Market has over time changed, develoepd, and progressed, in concerns to Abexilas in specifics, the world is almost immediately, in this topic, made distinct from almost all worlds having preceded it in the grander stoneworks timeline of economic growth, due to the fact of In which is that, the concept of the market and economy as a whole, developed only really after far long, long into the existence of Abexilas, and the timeline spanning from its conceptulation, making economy a relatively new concept to Abexilas, compared to worlds of sentient peoples from across the history of Stoneworks. 
They see no basis for a defined economic system, or at least not any form of large markets to the scale we would expect of any civilization or socioety as a whole/in generally, present in Abexilas, until around the 32nd to 33rd year T.E, far after the birth of the realm Abexilas had taken place, the first peoples came to inhabit/settle it, and the first being organized themselves into civilizations and societies. For the first early times of the world abexalis, we have seen no form of payment or cash based transaction been formed between peoples (AKA money or currency), no products or services being sold by markets for set defined prices or values in specific recorces (AKA corprot transactions), the creation of organized groups of people spesifing in the supplyment of certain goods or services for value (AKA businesses) of certain goods or services for value, or even the presence of wildly adopted trade networks or the exchange of recorces pertained by a certain groups of peoples. This gives off the impression that early abexalis had no real idea of what even a finacel system, as a concept, in which would havee been a concpt, beyond their understanding, and comprehension in regards to their logistical development in market function. Early abexalis most likely would have been a realm in where peoples barded goods and services, for no set prices or values, or in exchange for any certain resources, good, or service, but for, in Generall, as much as they could get their hands on.
The reason for this eceonomic setback and degrated/back-slided stagnation Abexilas has experienced, is more than likely in contribution to the series/sequences of great disasters and apocalyptic events in the early/founding years of of Abexilas, that had swept across and wrecked havoc all over the globe, known as the Great Crashes.
It was in the very first day of Abexilas, only right after the minute in which Abexilas itself had been conceptualized from within the cosmos, its existence as a world having just begun, and itself as a realm right then having come into being, the first few cosmic crashes occurred. Abexilas. Still in its formation in the cosmos, malleable, and susceptible, and vulnerable to its forces, Abexilas was host to a wide variety of cosmic ongoings and tendencies, in which, still not found, and still at the will and molding of the cosmos, easily had massive impacts and influences over the still solidifying realm. These cosmic events, with properties and attributes beyond the restrictions, and limitations of physics and universal law Abexilas has placed on us, were at incomprehensible levels of power, intensity, and strength, so severe, that when in contact with Abexilas, they would singlehandedly cause the entirety of the world to be razed, pulverized, and annihilated, or as the settling peoples of the land termed it: “A Crash”. These Crashes would result continuously in Abexilas experience the loss of all life within its dominion, settlement only recurring in times following the last crash, of in which, again, would be razed and totalled by the next crash. Any civilization in which slightly progressed close to the relaxation of the ideas of market and economy, were utterly wiped clean form Abexilas in a crash before their ideas could be realized, spred, or implemented, with no future civilizations able to work on what they had set the foundation for, due to their complete erasure form Abexilas, and all they created and left behind, resulting in their complete erasure form history, with no sign of their existence to be found.
==== The Arise Of The First Traders ====
This lack of economic rise, progression, development, and spread in Abexilas led, as a result, to a lack of trade, business, transactions, exchange, and commerce between the many different peoples, societies, and civilizations of Abexilas, as a lack of any defined economy in the realm, also resulted in any sense or resemblance of set values or prices for specific goods or services being set, which meant no sense of worth for any specific object or thing was set, meaning people had no incentive to value certain things and have it be equivalent or worth more or less than other certain things to themselves and other people making no sense of currency formed, and people had no reason to use the inherent value of certain things to be able to gain other things of equivalence for giving away the thing of equal worth they already had, meaning trade did not develop to the same strength we saw as in other worlds. People had no reason to get things from people so they had something equivalent to get other things from other people, meaning no form of trade network formed, where nations of groups of people sell or buy certain goods, so they use those goods they got in exchange to get other goods from other people. As you can see, commerce throughout the world is non-existent. 
As a side effect from that lack of trade, then, people lacked the ability to get necessities for their survival, which were only available in other parts of the world, which other people had access to, such as water for people who live inland near no source of natural freshwater. Many civilizations entered crisis and armageddon, as they suddenly experienced a lack of resources which were necessities for their continual growth, stability, systems of organizing people and holding themselves together, and keeping themselves, and their citizens, alive, which were only available in other parts of the world. With no trade of things to keep people alive, everybody was missing something for their survival, someone else who they had no contact to, had, and vise versa, which they could not get through simple exchange of what they had or didn't, since trade didn't exist. This was the end of times, and civilization and society all across the world were on the brink of collapse.
This “Material Armageddon” hit specifically the societies of the South Antarctic Sea of Kejafros hard. You see, the South Antarctic sea could be described as, in essence, an oceanic hellspace, the greatest wasteland in Abexilas. For thousands upon thousands of kilometers, all that lies ahead in every direction was endlessly deep and expansive water, colder than ice and snow, and harsher and more violent than even the most savage and bloodthirsty tribes of the mainland. Land in any form was non existent within this region of the world. Land above water, as in the forms of islands or archpeligos, where completly absent, water only covering the surface of this area of the world. Land below water, as in a sea floor or under water world of sorts, also, was non present, with the ocean in this area of the world seemingly being endleslly deep, filled infinetly and never endingly with water. 
However, on the ends of this vast ocean of pure nothingnes all accept water, existed isolated archipelagos and shorelines. belonging to other continents of the world, this region as in between, and bordered. The people of these lands, because of the ocean of pure deoslation and nothingness that surrounded them and that expanded seemingly infinitely onwards, where some of the most isolated peoples, societies, and civilizations in the world. These people had no contact to the rest of the world outside there small stretches of land, as they were boxed in on all sides by infinetly never ending stretches of bodies of water, in which were impossible to cross, due to how long the strtches out, and how far away land lied ahead of them. These bodies of water in the south antartic sea, as I have mentioned before, were also attributed as some of the most violent, hostile, and in hospital lands in the world, due to their below freeiing tempratures, their uncomprhenivly massive, violent, forced, and thrust-full waves more chaotic and violent then anywhere else in the world, and the lack of an form of recorces or material at all, present, to sustain life anywhere in the area, as all That existed was water, which did not have the ability to form or sustain any Recorces or materials needed for civilizations to form and run. Because of their already dire state when it came to the presence recorces and materials in this barren wastland they needed for their survival, when the Material Armegaddon struck, they were the most affected by the, now inhanced, lack of resources, materials, and services/goods, worldwide, compared to any other peoples, societies, and civilizations. These people in the South Antarctic Sea had no access to all the recorces, materials, and neccesties present in which people needed to survive, and in which were only present in parts of the world outside of their own, and because of the lack of trade going on in Abexelis, they had no solution to this problem.
This was until when in the rest of Abexilas, the world became better discovered, mapped out, and understood, and people became more aware of the different peoples and regions all over the globe, knowledge of the South Antarctic Sea civilizations finally became widespread. With the rest of the world now finally gaining their first insights into the region of the South Antarctic Sea, and the peoples, societies, and civilizations native to the area, they also became aware of the pronounced, prominent, and monumental struggles, hardship, distress, and crisis faced by the peoples of this region, with its attributes and charcterstics, in which to the rest of the world with more comfortable living conditions, geographies, climates, and environments made it seem unlivable.
Many individuals, learning about the sufferings and struggles of those in the South Antarctic Sea became sympathetic to their cause while others realized the potential capitalistic rewards of aiding the peoples of the region. This led to many individuals coming to the conclusion that if they were to give the people of the South Antarctic Sea the possibility of receiving of the resources and materials they lacked and needed to keep themselves going, they could take leverage of  the disparity of the societies and civilizations of the South Antarctic Sea, and in return, receive almost anything and everything those people were willing to offer. This resulted in many seafarers carrying resource and material aid and mass migrating together from all over the world into the South Antarctic Sea, drastically changing the cultural, ethnic and racial landscape of the region as it became inhabited by people of regions from all over the world, all assimilated together under a newly developed mercantile philosophy.
Essiantaly, individual peoples, looking for riches, influence, control, importance, and in general, power and strength, in the new world/realm of abexelis, found that, the lack of economy and the market in abexelis, due to a series of catastrophic comic events in which stopped humanity form developing and progressing, and in which created a lack of trade and exchange between resources needed for survival between civilizations, created the conditions needed for the formation of a very dispret and struggling group of people in the isolated lands of the south antarctic sea, which couldn't get resources they needed to survive, available in only other lands, which these external individuals, depending on where in the world they are from and which resource they specialize in, have access to. This resulted in the idea that, these individuals, could exploit the need of these peoples in the south antarctic sea, for the resources the individuals possess, which are a necessity for survival in the south antarctic, and, in theory, gain a stronghold over the societies of the area, being able to extract money/wealth, resources, influence/control, and power from the civilizations of the legion, due to the civilizations depending on the recorecs the individuals bring to keep them alive, and having to follow the traders and whatever they say, to appease the traders to the point where they would continue to give the civilizations the resources they needed for survival.
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