Solmara owns the port, the exchange, and the cheapest charters on the continent, and still lets 85 percent of its grain demand go unmet. That is not scarcity. That is bookkeeping done by people who never learned it. As president I take on no debt, hold the tax light, and pour every spare mark of the treasury into industrial capacity - grain and tools first, where the shortage bites - before crowding drags the wage down. A president who keeps clean books keeps the republic solvent. - Baltasar Crane, Crane and Ledger Grain Co.