"Hardtack, dried beef… cola…" Ma Dong muttered this list as he stuffed items into Barran's bag, which had already been filled until it looked almost like a small hill as it lay on the ground. "When you're all outside, you will be representing the Prodigy Society. As such, you must all get that quota! If humans are steel, then food is iron! Eat more!"
The Freedom Federation's increase in commodity trading in the past thirty years had been rising. A large part of this was due to them gaining an advantage from their trade with the three empires. Some of the things traded had once been considered restricted resources of those empires, and even the luxury of some goods has been rising.
One such example would be cola. It's said that a single bottle of cola could be traded in for a female slave in the empires. This was simply unbelievable.