Title: Trade Market Hitting New Lows
The Issue: Rèanne, a small nation with an even smaller GDP, has offered to sell your nation manual laborers.
Validity: Slavery, Not Autarky
Option 1: "It's no well-kept secret that your nation condones slavery," suggests monopolistic Rèannese celebrity-entrepeneur @@RANDOMNAME@@, giving your secretary a free sample. "But whereas other nations may criticize your endeavors, we see it as an opportunity to give our... less desirables something of a better life, and in return enough money to give the civilized Rèannese an even better one. Meanwhile, your people won't have to lift a finger. I'm glad you agree this a good deal, just sign here."
[effect] workers in @@REGION@@ go above and beyond out of fear of being sold by their government to @@NAME@@
Validity: Not Vat-Grown People
Option 2a: "Hogwash! Why would we bother with buying slaves when we've got plenty enough right here at home!" declares fat cat @@RANDOMNAME@@, slapping the free sample away from your secretary with @@HIS@@ cane. "Heck, you should be implementing an extensive slave breeding program so we can pawn them off to other countries for profit. Who would want a Rèan over one of our own flesh-born meat puppets, anyway?"
[effect] it takes slaves to make slaves
Validity: Vat-Grown People
Option 2b: "Hogwash! Why would we bother with buying slaves when we've got plenty enough right here at home!" declares fat cat @@RANDOMNAME@@, slapping the free sample away from your secretary with @@HIS@@ cane. "Heck, we should be growing slaves in vats so we can pawn them off to other countries for profit. Who would want a Rèan over one of our own vat-grown meat puppets, anyway?"
[effect] it takes volatile experimental biological fluid to make slaves
Option 3: "Why would you take slaves away from their work when there's a perfectly ripe civilization to invade?" grumbles your disgruntled and @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Supremist Minister of War. He stutters trying to pronounce Rèanne before finally saying, "Ruin's a shamble of a nation trying to save their sorry excuse for an economy. I say we just take their nation for ourselves and import their maggots over to us. Sure, we'll risk a war with nearby Bigtopia and Brasilistan, but that's what I'm here for."
[effect] you can't put a price tag on a free life