Economy : Under the imperial regime, manufacture and commerce were completely unregulated. According to the official line of the regime, the strong social emphasis on charity as a religious obligation was sufficiently effective in limiting the ill- effects of the a totally free market because, to quote from imperial government sources, "A rich man who does not practice charity is blackmarked and his business may very well sink."

In fact, however, wealth was concentrated in the hands of coastal and urban landlords as well as in those of a few prosperous trading families in the north and the interior of the south. In point of fact, the Afrazurean economy of the last fifty years has been marked by widespread poverty, occasional famine, and even the practice of slavery in the more remote areas. Agriculture has been limited to areas along the coasts and on the banks of the Great Elephant River, and the nation has always been a net importer of foodstuffs. Although the interior is characterized by arid plains and desert, the government of the Protectorate will attempt to extend appropriate forms of agriculture, especially the growing of grains and tubers, as far inland as possible.
         The Afrazuran monetary system has been judged to be in a state of complete collapse. The imperial currency, whose primary unit, the Défense, was decimally divided into 100 Bananes, has not been valued in terms of any foreign currency since the collapse of the government of Maurétanie, to whose Dinar it was last pegged at the rate of 14.7 to 1. No foreign government or national bank has exchanged for it at all since late 297, and today it is completely worthless. Immediately after the establishment of the Protectorate, the newly issued Altlandic currency was made legal tender in Afrazure for all transactions. What little imperial currency was still in circulation was gathered by the Protectorate Secretariat for Economic Affairs and destroyed. Eventually an Afrazurean version of the Altlandic Pende, called the Panga, was issued and backed by the Bank of Altland. The symbol for this currency is "A¶." A specimen banknote is displayed below.