Expect to hear a lot about capital flight and capital controls. In the more or less unified world of the Order, capital can fly back and forth across borders with few limitations. Very few countries have meaningful restrictions, because of a general realization that any steps taken to slow the flow of capital in or out will starve the country of investment, and that has costs: in economic growth, employment, tourism, technological transfer, and opportunities to participate in the modern world in general. Historically, such openness is as abnormal as everything else in the world of the Order,
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