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== [[Comic Books]] ==

* In one issue of [[Will Eisner]]'s ''[[The Spirit]]'', The Spirit's sidekick [[Ethnic Scrappy|Ebony White]] travels to a desert kingdom to sell a valuable jewel. In exchange, he receives one billion of that country's currency. When he gets back home, he discovers the exchange rate for all that money is about 1.25¢. He promptly spends it all on hot dogs and ice cream at a local diner.

* "Awful Flight", a [[Funny Animal]] parody of the Canadian supehero team ''[[Alpha Flight]]'', has one of the team excitedly point out a dollar on the ground. When the others ask what the big deal is, he explains that it's a ''US'' dollar! They're rich!

{{quote| '''The Guide:''' In fact there are three freely convertible currencies in the Galaxy, but none of them count. The Altarian Dollar has recently collapsed, the Flainian Pobble Bead is only exchangeable for other Flainian Pobble Beads, and the Triganic Pu has its own very special problems.<ref>In the TV (and possibly radio) version, it uses "doesn't count as money"</ref> Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles along each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency, because Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. From this basic premise it is very simple to prove that the Galactibanks are also the product of a deranged imagination.}}

** This is also some [[Self Deprecating Humor]], since the Galactibanks are the products of [[Douglas Adams]]' imagination.

* In the ''[[Timeline-191]]'' series, the Confederate States of America win the Civil War and remain their own country, but then lose the world's equivalent of World War I. This causes Confederate banknotes to rapidly decrease in value, to the point where people have to race to spend any money they get their hands on before prices rise again. It takes a few years to get the economy under control again, by which time the banks had started printing one billion dollar notes (now rendered worthless themselves by federal decree, not that anyone would be able to give change for them anyway).

== [[Video Games]] ==

* In "Tropico 3" Absolute Power El Presidente can choose to print more money, while giving money in the short term it permenantly raises the price of everything else, the more money printed the more the economy becomes inflated. Eventually everything becomes too expensive to afford.

* In the online game/community [[Nation States]], each nation can name its own currency, whose value -- relative to other in-game currencies and real-world currencies -- is determined by the player's policy decisions. Quite a few fall into this territory.

* In ''[[Dubloon]]'', there's a man who is eager to sell you his goodies for 10,000 Farquads<ref>He doesn't accept dubloons.</ref>. Once an exchange service is open, you can find out that 10,000 Farquads are worth ''1 dubloon''. Said man is also Black<ref>Maybe he is from Zimbabwe?</ref>.

* In an early mission in ''[[Just Cause (Video Game)|Just Cause 2]]'', while Rico is buying some information from an informant, Panau is implied to have this kind of money.

{{quote| '''Informant:''' A pleasure doing business with you.<br />

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