"Ration tickets..." Sun Hang murmured.
Ration tickets, things that belonged to the "exclusive vouchers" of the quarantine area—unlike regular towns with a market economy, most of the supplies in the quarantine area came from periodic shipments from the outside.
This meant that the goods people in the quarantine area could buy were limited.
Aside from a few individuals with military connections who could smuggle in some items outside the plan, for the vast majority of quarantine area residents, once a product was bought up, it was gone, unless they waited for the next supply shipment; otherwise, no matter how much money they had, there was nowhere to buy it.
To prevent hoarding and speculation, in addition to issuing the universal federal currency, the quarantine area also issued "exclusive vouchers" per capita, requiring tickets of specified types along with payment to buy goods: grain tickets for rice and flour, salt tickets for salt, and even a bicycle ticket to buy a bicycle.
