Editing Money (section)

===Money in Sci-fi settings===
In futuristic settings, money is usually just a single unit (typically called "credits") and largely operate on a digital level instead of people having to give a form of bank note or coin. In most sci-fi settings that include aliens with their own currency system, the proverbial credit is usually the standardized form of money people pay with that has a direct equivalent to their home system. Basically similar to what the European Union did with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro Euro], but on a larger scale and somehow managing to go decades without a member state's financial issues fucking it up. Alternatively, you also have sci fi delve into commodity-based transactions like in Dune; ranging from the trade of melange spice (which is useful for life extension, prescient powers, or flat out space navigation) or in water if you’re on a scorched hell-hole like the Fremen on Arrakis.

In a few science fiction societies such as the Federation from [[Star Trek]] and [[The Culture]] have done away with money, with economies which are so efficient that it is easy to provide fulfill material needs due to robots, replicators, fabrication machines and similar there is not really a reason to pay people to work so society just provides people with what they want/need for free with all work being voluntary. The problem of such a [[Wikipedia:Post-scarcity economy|"post-scarcity" economy]] is that creativity (without dangerously intelligent AI), land/space (unless you build space-stations), entertainment, sexual gratification (without sexbots or the like), and attention will still be in finite supply while listlessness can make society break down per Dr Calhoun’s infamous Behavioral Sink experiment with rat colonies over-flooded with food. In less ideal situations often posited society gets dominated by megacorportations in which the working masses toil for scrip, coupons which can be redeemed at company stores for company products. This sort of thing did happen in the 19th century a lot as a way to keep the workers in line in company towns.

====Money in 40k====
In WH40K; currency is not completely detailed upon. The Imperium officially runs on a feudal system with no unified currency system, where each world must pay tithes of various resources such as food, minerals, hardware, manpower.....etc, instead of paying in coin. Although several publications say that each Imperial world has their own local currency system, not to mention that guardsmen also get paid with actual money (although unspecified). Most people typically just accept that Imperial currency is either called "credits" or "thrones" (throne gelt, specifically, and yes that does indeed mean they are [[Golden Throne]]s), since they're the most prevalent. 

Additionally, every human of the Imperium is indebted to the Emperor at birth, as the only reason they're alive is because of the Emperor's continued sacrifice upon the Golden Throne. Thus, every citizen of the Imperium is considered a currency of the Emperor, and can be spent by the billions to preserve it, under the hopefully competent command of one of his generals. That said, wasting something that belongs to the Emperor himself is heresy, so while a commander or an Inquisitor may have the authority to spend that much if needed, they better have a good reason for it (those billions of guardsmen you sent to die on a pointless objective that did no favors to the Imperium? They could have instead been used in active, high-priority warzones like Cadia or Armageddon. You have potentially cost the fate of the entire Imperium through your incompetent squandering of His faithful servants, execution for such a grave offense.)

For Orks, they use [[toof|teef]], which can be obtained by krumping a git and yanking his chompers out. To orks; bigga teef means bigga value, so Orks who wants the killiest gubbins from the meks typically has to pick on someone his own size, or someone larger. Orks also run on a bartering system, where one can trade something of value; like salvage or resources to get what they want. Because teeth rots overtime, it cannot be hoarded for long, and has to be spent constantly to get the most out of it. And because no Ork can get rich by just sitting on his ass, this helps keep an Ork band eternally thriving as the constant fighting helps stimulate the Orks' growth. Some Ork bands also do not care if the teeth isn't from an Ork, so long as it looks like teeth and is zoggin 'uge. Its for this reason the Tyranids are another popular source of teef.

====Money in Star Wars====
In [[Star Wars]] the Republic Credit was the standard currency Galaxy wide, backed by the InterGalactic Banking Clan. Credits primarily exist electronically but also exist as untraceable, secure chips with a number of credits on them and (very rarely) metal coins. The Credit weakened toward the end of the Republic and many alternate local currencies popped up, most notable the Hutt Peggat, which was coined in gold and held a value at 40 times the credit and came to dominate Outer Rim transactions. When the Clone Wars broke out the Credit hit its lowest point as the Confederacy began printing currency that was broadly accepted, but this Confederate Credit died with its printer. The Empire replaced the Republic Credit with the Imperial Credit and ended the decades of low faith in the Credit. The Alliance to Restore the Republic issued its own credit, but it held little (if any value) for outside transactions and they primarily used the Imperial Credit till they became the New Republic. The ensuing Balkanizing of the Galaxy as the New Republic began to officially control worlds and the remaining Imperials broke into a maze of factions created another mess of currencies. Since no two governments considered the other legitimate, traders had to rely on commodities to make transactions. This lasted till the Pellaeon–Gavrisom Treaty brought peace between the New Republic and Imperial Remnant. In the times before the Republic went full retard in the Ruusan Reformation 1000 years before the Battle of Yavin, the system is pretty much the same as writers don't want to bother with numismatics. After the Pellaeon-Gavrisom Treaty the same policy is taken for the sake of convenience.

====Money in [[Battletech]]====
Battletech has an unusually developed currency system based on an actually reasonable scarce commodity.  The universal currency is the C-bill, which is issued by ComStar and has a fixed value backing of exactly 1 millisecond of FTL data transmission over the ComStar network (enough to send a picture or a few pages of text).  Since virtually everyone who wants to send data around must pay in C-bills, this makes it universally fungible. Still each individual state has their own set of currency and they each have their own exchange rate in C-bills.