A World of Fantasy (The Spanish Crisis)

Sorry for my grammatical errors.

Dedicated to Yumi for her impartial prespective.

Imagine that there is a world where Magic and Fantasy are as natural as here Love and Hate. A society with a great mixture of races (as Elves, Dwarves, Ogres or Human) and strange landscapes that welcome in her bed all these race.

In particular we look at a small kingdom, which throughout its history has enjoyed large periods of expansion, but now bypasses its best.

Dominated by brilliant kings, good kings, mediocre kings or bastards kings have built up it script, but the truth is that there have always been disputes between their peoples. They recently overcame a dictatorship and they believe they have moved on, but old suspicions still exist among the populations and continue to exist for a long time.

But not everything is negative. In recent decades, under the reign of King apparently equable, had a time of great growth that made ​​them believe they were back in the forefront of the global elite. Counselors of the King, seeing the quiet period was living the kingdom, decided to take advantage of the situation, but had no resources or organization, so desperate, they decided to go to Wizards and Elves, very powerful characters who never yielded free their magic.

In the end, with the promise of the King and the Counselors that always defend the interests of the others, they closed the partnership agreement.

Wizards and Elves, happy, went to work without wasting time. Mobilized adults and youngs in working age, and began to lead them. With magic multiplied resources. Were made more flexible, were modified and deleted a lot of rules in the name of progress. Almost no one objected. Cities grew at a rate disproportionate. Everything surrounding the Construction seemed to be blessed by fortune. Workers spent days working hard around the clock, but instead perceive a great wage that made ​​them forget their sorrows. Immediately they had so many coins that lacked time to spend.

Counselors of the King, aware of that enrichment, they began offering residences within the city. But houses were expensive and citizens refused to invest everything in those houses. That was when the Wizards again appeared on the scene offering to pay the debt in exchange for a share of the benefits workers get. The citizens, who were fully viable the numbers they had the Wizards, decided to accept.

Meanwhile, to meet the needs that humans could not or would not cover, it was decided to agree with the Dwarves, who were commissioned the harder and heavier works of the cities. Alliance was a little shaky, but they were times of greatness, it ended up being tolerant with the entry of Dwarves, that shortly after they also end up yielding to generous offers of the Wizards and invested in that sure value that was the Construction.

At first the taxes were paid without problems. Seven hundred or thousand coins are easy to pay when collected three thousand. However, over the years the decline began.

There had been no external attack, and buildings crowded cities. They could no longer continue to grow. But if not growing, builders were not required, nor does blacksmiths working iron, nor carpenters doing door. Within days, millions of jobs began to overrun, and workers alike humans and dwarves began to be fired.

Unfortunately for them, the debt with the Wizards continued in force, and every month they had to pay their taxes. The fine print of the contracts they had signed with them specified that the debt would not be paid with the return of the house. They had to keep paying until the debt be repaid. Obviously, no job (or one of precarious) income of many people began to disappear and ended up losing everything they had.

When reached six months of default of taxes, the Wizards (protected by law) executed their power and expelled the family from the house they had bought for them keep it. But like everyone lost purchasing power, the houses were empty and without buyer, and the family living in the street or coming home from their parents, provided they had not also lost by treatment with the Wizards.

And as I said, even being expelled, the family would continue to have debt with the Wizards for thirty or forty years.

The economy of that kingdom was paralyzed. The King and the Counselors, need capital to cover their expenses, again implored aid to the Elves. It was said of those creatures that could multiply the gold with their investments, but as professional speculators, only agreed to help them when they agreed exorbitant interest and more favorable conditions for them. Counselors accepted.

In this situation some Dwarves decided to return to their caves. A good number of humans followed them and many others tried their luck in different places on the planet... But a large majority of the population was left to bear the state of oligopoly that the Wizards and Elves were created, with the tolerance of the King and the Counselors, who handcuffed, but charges within companies of the most powerful people, suffered not, even remotely, the crisis that the people subjected.

Obviously without power of decision or real will to oppose the script marked by the Wizards and the Elves, the Kingdom was forced to touch the basic pillars of the state.

Since time immemorial, the cures health and education had been paid mostly by the Kingdom, with a portion of the taxes received from citizens (including a discount on their wages earmarked for this purpose). But in times of crisis, and the kingdom's coffers managed arbitrarily, made ​​sure they had to make radical changes to ensure the welfare state: They got on all taxes and created new, was introduced partial payment of the invoice medical, management was handed over public hospitals to private, closed hospitals and surgeries, doctors and teachers are laid off, reduced scholarships, it cheapened the dismissal of workers, wages were lowered and multiplied school fees and university fees.

But not all the blame was the King, the Counselors, the Wizards or the Elves. Citizenship was fooled (or looked away), believed to be living in a welfare state absolute and eternal, living off credit and exerting the highest ranking professions without getting dirty, while the Dwarfs were the most thankless jobs. Many citizens had never had anything and suddenly pretended to own a castle, a carriage for each family member and artworks that neither knew appreciate.

The crisis in this kingdom has served to give a slap to the way of life that had people on the street, lowering its superhighway that made them think they were the center of the world. Of course, the powerful have not lost an ounce of his power, on the contrary, protected by law, have enriched sinking the people.

And the King and the Counselors, in the name of austerity, have allowed.

But while they were demanding austerity to the people, got to know news about various concessions they had made irregularly the leaders to allied companies. Also discovered numerous cases of corruption, and was rescued with public money to some Wizard, who because of bad investments had run out of capital.

Yes, the contracts with citizens continued all in force and not forgave a penny of debt.

The Kingdom not generate wealth because almost everything that is produced is used to pay the asphyxiating interest of Wizards and Elves. No occupation is created and long ago that society is divided. The rich just looking for their own benefit, and the poor as well (with the difference that someone have the resources and the other not). It is a loop that is doomed to chaos.

So, after all these rights and wage cuts, and see that the Counselors are some vulgar scammers just looking out for their interests and those of the Wizards and Elves, the population has decided enough is enough.

Take to the streets to express their opposition. They demonstrate in the streets for all that consider it unjust, and remain hoarse from shouting: "When we gave our support was not what we expected". But the Counselors ignored the voice of the people, continue to exert an iron grip their decisions (agreed with Wizards and Elves). And none resigns.

They cling to power, and they share a bipartisanship that is as rotten as society itself.

"You voted us" they reply.

This is the great irony of this story… Most citizens, perhaps haunted or perhaps blinded by election promises that leaders have failed deliberately, gave them confidence.

Now they pay the consequences of this ignorance. And protest, because that's all that let them do.