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Ministry of Finance Reports first surplus in decadesPublic Coffers overflowing due to massive influx of ODEN profits
Kaliburg, Ananto
February 17, 4695


Ubiquitous sales of ODEN products leading a massive Kalistani economic upswing

The Minister of Finance reported this week that Kalistan stands to realize its first budget surplus since the economy was privatized decades ago.  Not only will Kalistan experience a real surplus (as opposed to the paper ones it has ran through dynamic book keeping, optimistic projections and magical thinking common during the Conservative Party's tenure) but the revenues are flooding in.

"Kalistan regularly ran a paper surplus of 77 billion KRB a year," said Finance Minister Nedra Stuart.  "This year, we will take in not only this amount, in terms of real Rubles, but an additional hundred billion more on top of this.  Our projections are that this increase in contribution comes almost exclusively from ODEN, which contributes on a separate budget line than is represented in the National Budget Analysis.  Most sales are domestic, but due to ODEN's non-prejudice concerning who is able to purchase ODEN products in the Mart in Kaliburg, nearly 40% of those sales are to private buyers from nations where drug use is illegal.  We also receive some of the benefit of secondary economic activity around ODEN, namely drug tourism, where nationals from repressive, anti-Liberty states fly to Kalistan, stay in our hotels, eat our food, and buy from ODEN.  The Return of ODEN has been a boon for the revenue stream in Kalistan."

The Minister of Finance used the announcement to announce plans for the rechartering of the National Bank. "We would like to build a stable financial foundation for the Republic.  The goal of the Socialist Party has been to arrive at zero percent growth, controlling for population growth.  This can be helped along if we prevent rampant speclation by foreign actors."

The SP is expected to recharter the National Bank in the coming months.  Meanwhile, the Finance Minister joked "We're going to have to build a silo to store all this cash..."  There are worse problems to have!