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 imputing 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 .
List of fictional currencies
Currency frequently serves as another vehicle to flesh out a story.
Credits
Many futuristic settings use credits, including:
- The movie Total Recall
- The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov.
- Doctor Who (sometimes specified as Galactic credits). In one serial the currency symbol is a Ƶ. A conversion ratio is mentioned in the episode "Voyage of the Damned": GB£1,000,000 is equal to that of 50,000,056 credits. As seen in "The Long Game", a credit is divided into sub-units.
- The Star Wars universe: see Republic credits.
- The Star Trek universe—though credits have not been seen in transactions for any large-value items. See Federation credit.
- The space trading computer game Elite
- Batman Beyond
- Babylon 5 .
- Perimeter 2 . The US dollar in the video game Perimeter 2 is denoted with the symbol similar to the American dollar sign ($), however, in the game, it is worth approximately as much as a Vietnamese dong, US$ 6 × 10 −5 .
- F-Zero video games and anime. A space credit, written with a symbol identical to a dollar sign ($), seems to be approximately equal to one Japanese yen, or about 0.8¢ US.
- Judge Dredd ("creds").
- The Traveller role-playing game universe: CrImps (i.e., Cr edits Imp erial, or "Imperial Credits").
- In the TSR Star Frontiers the credit is abbreviated Cr . It was originally designated "Pan-Galactic Credits" and issued as corporate scrip by the fictional Pan Galactic Corporation of the Frontier Sector.
- The Galactic civilizations depicted in many Andre Norton books.
- The space-faring 1964 alternate history timeline of Fredric Brown's "What Mad Universe", abbreviated to "Cr.", with one Credit (a worldwide currency) having the purchasing power of about 10 American cents in our timeline.
- The interstellar civilisation of A. Bertram Chandler's books uses both Credits (2000-2500 Credits pay for a ticket on a spaceship across many light-years' distance), and Dollars (lucky spacemen and spacewomen who did a major salvage job can get several million Dollars, which are enough to buy second-hand a spaceship of their own).
- In the TV series Firefly and its follow on movie Serenity, credits are used by the more 'civilised' inner planets, while the out worlds use Platinum coinage.
- The Hive World of Necromunda in the Warhammer 40,000 universe uses Guilder Credits or Creds for short.
- Dirty Pair
Names adapted from real-world currencies
- Air Dollars , used by the international association of pilots and technicians from which a world state develops in H.G. Wells' "The Shape of Things to Come" (1934). "The air-dollar was not a metallic coin at all; it was a series of paper notes, which represented distance, weight, bulk, and speed. Each note was good for so many kilograms in so much space, for so many kilometres at such a pace. The value of an air-dollar had settled down roughly to a cubic metre weighing ten kilograms and travelling two hundred kilometres at a hundred kilometres an hour" (see).
- Altairian dollars from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (in the TV series the currency symbol is a lower case "a" with a line through it).
- Ankh-Morpork dollars (A$) and pence from Discworld novels.
- Bison Dollars from the movie Street Fighter .
- Crowns from the Inheritance Trilogy book series.
- Crowns in Larry Niven's "Known Space". Teleporting oneself from one spot to another on Earth costs just a tenth-Crown, a trifling sum.
- Dollarpounds ($£) and pennycents (p¢) from Red Dwarf .
- Dolleryen ($¥) from Gunbuster . The currency with the same name is also used in The Most Irresponsible Man in Space light novel series.
- $$ or Double Dollars from Trigun .
- Earth Yen from the movie Galaxina
- Ecu from Zero no Tsukaima .
- Eurodollar in the Cyberpunk_2020 roleplaying game, commonly referred to as eurobuck .
- The Fuseodollar is the most important currency unit in the Commonwealth in Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy. Its value is linked to that of Helium 3, a commodity essential for running the ubiquitous fusion reactors used by most powers mentioned in the books.
- Kongbucks (Hong Kong dollars) in Snow Crash – arguably not fictional.
- Hong Kong Luna Dollar , the hard currency used in Luna in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein.
- Marks from Pern . The Mark is also the currency of the planet Barrayar in the Vorkosigan Saga . It is also found in Garrett P.I. , as is the groat and sceat.
- New Yen from William Gibson's Sprawl stories.
- Nuyen in the Shadowrun roleplaying game, based on the above.
- Oceanian Dollar, in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four. The name of the currency, a Dollar divided into a hundred Cents, was derived from the US Dollar, and retained when the US fused with the British Empire to form the totalitarian super-state of Oceania. It is specifically stated that the 25-cent coin bears the picture of Big Brother on one face and the famous party slogans ("War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength") on the other. Presumably, paper notes for higher denominations also bear Big Brother's picture, but this is not explicitly stated.
- Piastras were used in many of the comics of Spanish Editorial Bruguera during the Franco era. Using an undetermined foreign currency instead of pesetas allowed more leeway against the censorship.
- Sens in Fullmetal Alchemist (technically not fictional, the sen being a former subdivision of the yen)
- Sequins are the Martian unit of currency in Kim Stanley Robinson's Red/Green/Blue Mars series, as well as on Tschai ( Planet of Aventure ) by Jack Vance, where they are made from the roots of a plant that concentrates certain minerals.
- Space bucks in Spaceballs .
- The actually-existing Swiss Franc has a great fictional future in the loosely-linked stories included in Jerry Pournelle's "High Justice" (1974). The Swiss currency becomes a worldwide, and afterwards a Solar System-wide, medium of exchange (especially in the Asteroid Belt, where much of the action takes place).
- Yen-Euro-Dollars (¥€$), pronounced as "yes", from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex .
Others
- A-sia from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex .
- Aurics in the Domination of Draka .
- Beri (Berries) from the anime One Piece .
- Bits as online fictional currency by users in The Unix and Linux Forums.
- C-bills from the BattleTech Sci-Fi Universe.
- Crescents in the nation of Calormen in C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia book series.
- Cubits from Battlestar Galactica . In Galactica 1980, cubits were revealed to be made from "Auric" - Gold.
- Days from the Terry Pratchett novel Strata . One day is the amount of money that will buy you the rejuvenation treatment needed to increase your lifespan by one day.
- Dollops and sments from the animated series Chowder.
- Flanian pobble bead from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . Not an especially useful currency, as they can only be exchanged for other Flanian pobble beads.
- Fretzers from Dr Trifulgas: A Fantastic Tale by Jules Verne.
- Galleons, sickles, and knuts from the Harry Potter series.
- Gavvo, currency of George Barr McCutcheon's fictional East European pricipality of Graustark. A Gavvo was worth $1.40 at the time of the novel "Truxton King" (1909).
- Gold Crowns are the main currency of the Empire in the Warhammer World. They are further diveded into Silver Shillings and Copper Pennies.
- Grotznits in the Doctor Who serials "The Mysterious Planet" and "Dragonfire".
- Gil from the Final Fantasy series by Square-Enix.
- The Grubnick is the currency used in the fictional country of Elbonia created by Scott Adams.
- Hytes and Kules, believed to be the currency of the Riah colonies, from Gundam 0080 .
- Jan-jan from the movie A Good Man in Africa .
- Jenny, approximately equal to 0.9 Japanese yen, from Hunter × Hunter .
- Kalganids from Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov.
- Kan from Bleach .
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