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Fictional currency is currency in works of fiction. It is often invented, bearing little or no resemblance to any modern or historic currency. This is a necessary plot device, in order to increment the completeness of the environment, and at the same time dissociate it from any known economy on earth. A very common type, especially in science fiction, is credits. This is easily recognizable as money, and different from all earthly currency. The use of credits may serve to prevent the reader from inferring a lot of significance to it, e.g. by maintaining lack of depth that may be inherent to a short story, or simply to prevent it from overshadowing more important themes. However, this term would be inappropriate for a work set in a more technologically primitive environment, such as a medieval fantasy novel. Generic money in this genre is typically constructed from one or more precious or semiprecious metals, such as copper, silver, gold, electrum, or even platinum, followed by coins or pieces.On the other hand, currency frequently serves as another vehicle to flesh out a story. Examples include:
- Ankh-Morpork dollars from Discworld
- Bell from Animal CrossingAnimal Crossing known as Animal Forest or Doubutsu no Mori in Japan, is a video game franchise developed by Nintendo. The game was then improved upon and released in the United States on September 15th, 2002, later being made a Player's Choice game. It ut and GiFTPiAGiFTPiA ( Japanese: ) was developed by Skip's division 24 and released in Japan in 2003 for the Nintendo GameCube. Story On the day of his coming of age ceremony, Pockle oversleeps and misses the whole thing. The mayor of the island is so incensed that he
- Bottle capBottle caps are small circular pieces of metal with plastic backings that are used to seal glass bottles, typically those containing soda and beer. A bottle cap is typically colorfully decorated with the logo of the brand of beverage.s from FalloutFallout is a computer role-playing game produced by Tim Cain and published by Interplay in 1997. The game is an unofficial sequel to Wasteland but it could not use that title as Electronic Arts held the rights to it. There were two role-playing titles in
- Buckazoids from Space QuestThe Space Quest series of six computer games describes the adventures of heroic (if clumsy and none-too-bright) janitor Roger Wilco as he campaigns through the galaxy for truth, justice and really clean floors. Initially created for Sierra On-Line by the
- ClamA clam is any of a number of edible marine bivalve mollusks living in sand or mud on the shores of oceans. Characteristics Clams can be hard-shelled or soft-shelled. The digestible portion of the clam consists of muscles, which allows it to open and closes from The FlintstonesThe Flintstones a Hanna-Barbera animated series, is one of the most successful television cartoons of all time, running in American prime time for six seasons, from 1960 to 1966, on ABC. An earlier proposed title was The Flagstones''. The show was set in and B.C.is an American comic strip drawn by Johnny Hart. Set in pre-historic times and featuring a group of wise-cracking cavemen, it has appeared daily in newspapers since February 17, 1958. It is considered one of the leading strips of post-World War II America
- Coins from the Mario video game series
- Credits from the Star Trek universe and elsewhere
- Creds from Judge Dredd
- Crescents in the nation of Calormen in C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia book series
- Dollarpounds and pennycents from Red Dwarf
- $$ or Double Dollars from Trigun
- Energy, used in the Alpha Centauri computer game and mentioned as a world currency in a "future timeline" by Arthur C. Clarke
- Filari from Ultima 7
- G or GP, currency used in some computer role-playing games
- Galleons, sickles, and knuts from the Harry Potter series
- Gella from the Wild ARMs series
- Gil from the Final Fantasy series
- Guilders from Ultima 7 (a real currency formerly bore this name)
- Hytes and Kules, believed to be the currency of the Riah colonies, from Gundam 0080
- Inter Stellar Kredits (ISK) from EVE Online
- Latinum from the Star Trek universe
- Monetari from Ultima 7
- Obsidian coins from Ultima 8
P from the Pokémon series
- Quatloos from Star Trek
- Rasbukniks, currency of Lower Slobbovia in Li'l Abner, had literally no value
- Rupees from the Legend of Zelda universe. A real currency also bears this name.
- Sovereigns from Knights of Xentar
- Space bucks in Spaceballs
- Tiberium, a disruptive resource that served as currency in the video game Command & Conquer
- Woolongs used in the anime Cowboy Bebop
- Zeni, currency in the Dragon Ball universe
- Zenny, used in certain Capcom video games such as Megaman Legends
- Zorkmids from the Zork series of interactive fiction; also used in NetHack
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