Merchants Guild

The Merchant's Guild is an organization similar to that of the Adventurers Guild. It has specific rules that the members must abide.

General Information
The Merchant's Guild is an organization that exceeds a country.

There are 5 ranks in the Merchant's Guild:


 * 1) Iron Rank - Peddlers, Stalls (ones who do business without a store)
 * 2) Bronze Rank - individual stores (an individual store like the town's butcher or general store)
 * 3) Silver Rank - small-scale merchant companies (a decent sized merchant company in a town)
 * 4) Gold Rank - mid-scale merchant companies (a merchant company that has several branches)
 * 5) Mithril Rank - large-scale companies (a merchant company that has many branches)

The register fee, annual fee, tax fee is different in each rank.


 * 1) Iron Rank - 5 silver coins for register fee → 1 gold coin for annual fee → 2 gold coins for tax fee
 * 2) Bronze Rank - 1 gold coin for register fee → 2 gold coins for annual fee → 4 gold coins for tax fee
 * 3) Silver Rank - 2 gold coins for register fee → 5 gold coins for annual fee → 10 gold coins for tax fee
 * 4) Gold Rank - 4 gold coins for register fee → a certain amount of gold coins relative to the number of stores → a certain amount of gold coins relative to the number of stores
 * 5) Mithril Rank - 8 gold coins for register fee → a certain amount of gold coins relative to the number of stores → a certain amount of gold coins relative to the number of stores

Laws

 * The annual fee and tax fee must be paid within one year since the day of registration.
 * With the day of registration as the base, the member's qualifications are yearly renewed. It shall not be renewed in the case where the annual fee and tax fee is not paid.
 * The collected tax fee shall be paid by the Merchant's Guild to each country with responsibility.
 * In the case where a guild card of a certain rank is lost, there would be different fees for reissuing according to ranks.
 * In the case where one would do illegal transactions, there would be some case that one shall be expelled from the Merchant's Guild.
 * The way of registering as Iron Rank at first and gradually increasing one's rank is possible.

Trivia
The Guild offers consultation regarding problems about stores, capital investments, and procurement of merchandise any time.