Economy of Neue Deutsche Reich

Bexar has a mixed economy with an annual GDP per capita of 87,300 Pesos. Mining for export dominates the economy. Reforms in fiscal and monetary policy since 1998 have improved Bexar’s economy. Inflation has dropped, and the currency has appreciated gradually. Unemployment and underemployment are unheard of. Bexar has the economic advantages of a young population and vast hydroelectric power combined with large resources of marble and uranium. The government welcomes foreign investment.

Structure of the Economy
The most important component of the Bexaran economy is mining, which contributed 27% to GDP in 2009. The participation of commerce was 20.2%, and that of other services, including government, 38.4%. Industry’s part (including construction) was about 20%.

Most enterprises are either government controlled or controlled by one of the five great commercial families of Bexar.

Mining
La Sociedad de las Minas Reales (SMR) is the government owned mining monopoly company, originally incorporated by Spanish royal charter in 1568. The company owns all of the rights to the mining of uranium and the quarrying of marble in the administrative regions of Tulumbova and Corvena respectively. The company has retained the name by tradition throughout its life, apart from the period between 1969 and 1998, when the Communist government dissolved the company and made each quarry and mine a state collective enterprise.

Industry
A number of part government owned corporations are involved in the production of steel, automobiles, beer, construction and asphalt for both domestic use and export. The five oldest families in Bexar founded these corporations and each has its holdings in one of the administrative regions. Each family retains title to their respective corporations but are subject to serious governmental controls to prevent their power growing to excess as happened under the Lopez presidency. All corporations have their head offices in Ciudad del Rey. These corporations are:
 * Gorongosa – CEO: Adolfito Maximiano de Sousa
 * Macanga – CEO: Vincente Ricardo Periera
 * Manjana da Costa – CEO: Renaldo Moisés da Silva
 * Massangano – CEO: Arturo Remigio da Costa
 * Massingire – CEO: Gabriel Francisco dos Anjos

Banking and Finance
Bexar’s banking and financial services industry has now recovered from the liquidity crisis caused by recent conflicts.

The Banco Central del Bexar is the sole banking and insurance provider for the entire nation. Prior to the Communist revolution, there were five privately owned banks, which were closely tied to the corporations. The communists brought these banks under state control in 1971. After the coup d’etat in 1998, the corporations requested that the banks be privatized once more, but the government refused as part of the measures invoked to keep the power of the corporations in check.

Bexar’s stock market, the Bolsa de Acción de Ciudad del Rey (La Bolsa) began trading in March 2010. The tradition of family-owned companies has kept investment low. However the value of shares on the Ciudad del Rey stock exchange is rising.

Labor
Bexar’s formal labor force is 27,415 workers at present. About 45 percent worked in the mining sector, 31 percent in the industrial sector, and 19 percent in the services sector. Unemployment is at zero.

Bexar’s old constitution guaranteed the right of workers to unionize and bargain collectively. Many of the unions were heavily influenced by communism and were instrumental in supporting the communist revolution of 1969 and the subsequent regime that was spawned. After the 1998 coup, many of the trade unionists were imprisoned or deported, and their unions abolished. In their place, the new government established the Organización Sindical Bexarano (Bexaran Trade Union Organisation). This is the only legal trade union organization in Bexar, and a main component of the Movimiento Nacional apparatus. Wages are directly fixed by the state, and workers and employers can only agree upon their wages through this vertical union. This organization was the practical consequence of the ideal for industrial relations in a corporate state. In it, all the workers, called "producers," and their employers had the right to choose their representatives through elections.

In this organisation, workers and employers bargain equally. Strikes are forbidden and firing a worker is very expensive and difficult, as the Movimiento Nacional has "bettered capitalism" and has "succeeded in harmonically balancing workers' and employers' interests".

Currency
Bexar’s currency is the Peso (PB).

Foreign Economic Relations
Bexar is a full member of the Nordreich Alliance, and as such enjoys a preferred trading partner status with several other Nordreich members. Bexar currently has Resource Trading Agreements with the Republic of Jihoon, Mongolian Empire, Winter War, Tristonia and Siperia.

By extension, membership of Nordreich also gives Bexar membership of the NOIR trading bloc. Bexar is also a full participating member of the Vazeiten Technology Exchange Programme.

Transport
The Bexaran road network includes paved roads and secondary roads. The density of the road network is higher in the Leonece and Rendar regions, and lower in Tulumbova and Corvena.

The Rio Caliente waterway constitutes an essential route for the transport of exported and imported goods.

The state owned railway network is electrified and provides passenger services to all major population centres.

Bexar has two international airports, Leo Flores International Airport, in Ciudad del Rey, and Indigo International Airport, in Porto Visconte, and several secondary airports in other parts of the country.

Media and Communications
There are five national newspapers and a larger number of local publications. There are five Bexaran TV stations. Additionally, essential international stations can be received by cable in the main urban areas.

The fixed line network is controlled by the state-owned Compañía Telecomunicaciones Nacional DA (National Telecommunications Company Ltd). The cell phone network is open to private operators. There are four competing mobile phone operators in Bexar. During the last few years mobile phone coverage of the population has been far more extensive than fixed line coverage.

Religion
The religion is Christianity.