The South Shartak Trading Company: For Fun and (mostly) Profit!

[Arminius]

Gentlemen, gentlemen.

You need to protect your profit margins, and the capitalist system from which your honorable selves derive such benefit, from the sinister forces that want to smash them!

The emerging threat of Bolshevism on Shartak wishes to destroy the very basis of our capitalist system, and this Menace does not take kindly to you capitalist organization, to say the least.

This emergant threat includes recent communist-terrorist activity by hotheaded radical "Che" who has taken it upon himself to "liquidate" anti-communist opposition across the island. Rest assured that you "capitalists" are next, just as one domino tumbles after the last.

Fortunately the Shartak Anti-Communists also exists, that we proponents of Capitalism may fight back and secure our glorious Profit Motive well into the future.

[Black Joe]

Greetings, Shade! I, Songa, also prosper!  Thanks to a dedicated effort on my part, five towns in Shartak were supplied with over 50 medical supplies each! On a completely unrelated note, I believe I am the richest man in Wiksik!

As for the Communists, I'm sure they won't bother me.  I supply people with medical supplies in every town I visit.  Shartak prospers in part due to my efforts!  Really, who could object to that?

[Arminius]

Greetings, Shade! I, Songa, also prosper!  Thanks to a dedicated effort on my part, five towns in Shartak were supplied with over 50 medical supplies each! On a completely unrelated note, I believe I am the richest man in Wiksik!

As for the Communists, I'm sure they won't bother me.  I supply people with medical supplies in every town I visit.  Shartak prospers in part due to my efforts!  Really, who could object to that?

You make money off this trade, and so the communists want you dead!

The hatred that these communist-terrorists have for the intrepid merchants and traders among us , who improve society by transfering goods from one place where they are produced, to another where they are needed, is hard for honest men like us to believe, but it is a fact.

[Gitboy]

Could you guys run some ammo to York?  I'd be willing to pay to have large quantities of bullets dropped off for an alt of mine at a pre-arranged location.

EDIT:  As in, my alt would be willing to pay.

[Shade]

Bloody reds, indeed! What you did to the Tsar was inhumane, to say the least. Is it really a crime for one to be inbred, stupid, and losing The Great War at the same time? Surely there is some leeway?

Now, I must warn you. I am not one of those capitalists that has not seen the light of day, much less felt the sting of nettles and the smell of gunpowder from a discharged weapon. Oh no, I am not just a businessman. I am Jack W Spalding, a former soldier of the Queen's own expeditionary forces, and as such I am quite capable of looking after my self interests!

Besides, what do you plan on doing? Replacing our current system that rewards effort with riches with your worker's paradise? Or do you plan on replacing one elitist system with another, with you as the elite class?

That is how humanity always works, and always shall.

Now I have business to attend to. Good day, chaps!