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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viktyr Gehrig" data-source="post: 1291761" data-attributes="member: 9249">I'm a player in a play-by-email wargame set at the turn of the 20th century. It's the sequel to another such wargame set at the turn of the 19th, and we have some slang we picked up from our experiences in that game. "Francing yourself" or "Francing your economy" refers to the first French player in that game, who took out loans equivalent to three or four times his Production in a single year and dropped it entirely into industrial subsidies, inflating his currency to the point that it was more useful as toilet paper than the amount of toilet paper you could buy with it. What's amusing is the fact that two turns later, Russia did the exact same thing, except that he spent the entire sum on a single educational institution-- a college that the GM figured could only have cost that amount of money if it were made entirely of gold. This, of course, was too heavy for the local soil and sank. "Declaring War on Economics" is a similar, but slower process, involving wracking up massive war debts or simply amassing debts to build a giant army, far in excess of what your economy could support. Economics never lost a war in the game's fifty year history.</blockquote>