2nd of Hiems, 5018.
Sitting on top of a wooden chair in her office, Rose looked outside through the glass window to see the white snow raining down on her great, magnificent city of Vallina. Winter has finally arrived. For royalty, it often meant a plethora of fun activities to engage in, while for others, it often marked a time when people suffered from a lack of food, due to price hikes.
Thankfully, due to her position as the Imperial Queen of the Aceaton Empire, she had managed to devise a solution that would help feed her people, as well as weaken the northern states to make sure they won't rebel, essentially killing two birds with one stone.
Her strategy was surprisingly simple; force the northern tributary states to sell the food stored in their reserves for a marked-up price. This way, their government would be able to function properly, as it would have enough money to police their cities, while the common people of the north itself would have less food to eat.
