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Confederation with this fuel. Political blackmail is not an option ever considered by
Edenists, even as regards the most oppressive Adamist dictatorships. Edenists regard
the Confederation Assembly and its Navy as the only legitimate method of censure.


Finance
The habitat personality acts as bank and accountant for all financial transactions,
corporate or personal. There is no physical cash in the form of notes and coins, and
the fuseodollar is an entirely electronic currency, distributed through Jovian Bank
credit disks.

Although Edenism is certainly not a Communist ideology, revenue raised from
He3mining is administered by the habitat personality, and made available on a
communal basis; a research project or an artistic endeavor considered worthwhile, for
example, will be funded from this central source. Capital for commercial enterprises
is also advanced by the Jovian Bank. Edenists do not seek funding from Adamist
banks, which is another source of contention, as Adamists frequently apply for loans
from the Jovian Bank. Because of affinity, the habitat personality (through its
financial sub-Consensus) is actively involved in the planning of commercial ventures
from conception through to researching marketability, etc., so that when a project
reaches the stage where finance is necessary to fund start-up manufacturing, it will
always be granted.


Industry
Edenism is technologically and industrially self-sufficient, and the habitat-based
companies export a great quantity of manufactured products across the Confederation.
Problems with radiation shielding aside, gas-giant orbits are an ideal place to site
zero-gee industrial stations, providing proximity to supplies of raw material, energy,
and habitat populations. Jupiter is the greatest concentration of manufacturing
capacity in the Confederation, even managing to out-produce EarthтАЩs OтАЩNeill Halo.
Edenist companies tend to be run on a family level (extended family), with executive
ownership spread among participating members; primary funding always comes from
the Jovian Bank. Children of participants are eligible to work their way in after they
reach legal maturity (at age nineteen).


Trade
The relative wealth of the citizenship, plus a prodigious appetite for luxury goods and
exotic food make Edenist habitats an extremely valuable market for the
Confederation, and commerce is correspondingly brisk. Adamist starship companies
rarely have any complaints about Edenists in public or private, as their habitats, right
across the Confederation, provide a huge market. Although He3is EdenismтАЩs main
export, their high-technology astroengineering industries are also extremely
competitive, and sell throughout the Confederation. Even though He3is carried almost
exclusively by voidhawks and Edenist-owned tankers, the shipment of manufactured
goods is put out to free tender, and Adamist starships obtain a high percentage of the
contracts. There are over 20,000 starship movements daily in the Jovian system,
making it the busiest sector in the Confederation.