Bringing back the Somali shilling

But that is pretty much an unfalsifiable claim, which puts it quite strongly into the "faith-based ideology" category.

I'm not implying it, i'm just stating that North Korea is not a communist country, even if they say so. I'm not english native but i thought that my writing was quite straight and clear in this case , but well you can try and twist it to suit your ideology all you want.

You're making the strange assumption that the federal government will always be be more in line with your own political views than your state government. After all, at the end of the day a hard-right state is less bad for liberals than a hard-right country, because only in the first case can they try to find a job in California.

A Somalilander here, Somaliland has a fully established government which is elected by popular vote. In fact, it has one of the most sophisticated and modern voter registration system which uses bio-metric data to detect double voters. Something a number of other African or even first world (i.e. US/EU) can't guarantee.

Somaliland is extremely safe, you can go about your daily life without a hint of any problem. You can walk down the street in the middle of the night without worrying for your safety.

Keeping peace is everyone's business, citizens take ownership of it.

Aside from that, it is a very poor country, but everyone is happy with what little they have.

Money as a concept is interesting, and many of our conventions for thinking about it don't stand up well to scruitany. A few realisations I've had over the past few years:

1. Prices are ratios. A price is the ratio of how much X you will exchange for some Y. "Two dollars per dozen eggs" is the ratio of dollars to eggs. (William Stanley Jevons observed this in the 19th century.)

2. Money is, generally, the most universal exchange medium, within a given region. In this article, Somalia utilises both US dollars and Somali shillings.

3. Most currencies take their names from either units of weight or of quality: Weight: Pound, peso, mark, shekel, livre, penny, denarius (and dinar, dinero, etc., subdivision of 10), dirham (also drachma, from dram). The Japanese ryo.

For quality: dollar (referring to the high-quality silver of Jochimstaller, Germany), franc (Francorum Rex), ducat (from ducato, related to duke). References to royal imprimateur are common: royal, real, crown, kron, kroner, etc. Guilder, Guinea, gineih, zloty (from gold). Toponyms (afghani, bolivar, etc.) are also common, and refer to the authority of the issuing nation. Sterling (star-like silver). Ruble and kopek both refer to the cutting off of slivers of silver from a bar. Rupee again refers to silver.

There are some exceptions, of course. Scudo and piaster refer to shape, as do yuan and yen. Florin refers to the flower inscription (arguably a mark of quality or merit).

4. Whilst Gresham's Law applies -- poorer quality coin of a given denomination will drive out higher quality, there is also quite frequently a flight to higher-quality alternative currency. So: in Somalia, the Shilling is used for general trade, but dollars for larger transactions, where both value and acceptability matter.

5. Many regions and periods have seen what were effectively multi-currency systems. With stable rates of exchange between copper, silver, and gold, the English currency Adam Smith describes (at ... great ... length) in Wealth of Nations is actually one of three independent currencies largely used for different types of transactions: copper for retail, silver for wholesale, and gold for finance. The farthing (four-thing -- one fourth of a penny) was nearly 1/1000th the value of a pound sterling (240 pennies, or 960 farthings). Twenty pounds was a good income for a labourer. If you consider a farthing as essentionally a dollar, then those 20 pounds are an annual income of about $20,000.

6. There are multiple drivers for currency value. Clamshells (the origin of "clams" as a term for money) were used in the US for small transactions. Obtainable (with some work), exchangeable, relatively easily accounted for. Convention, agreement, assurances of legal currency, mandates for tax payments in currency, standards for international exchange, commodities trade (think oil), etc., all play a part.

7. Virtually all currencies, specie or fiat, devalue over time. Again, Smith addresses this ... at length.