World wide all currencies, to the best of my knowledge, are interest based currencies. The value of one unite is not fixed to any base product, good or item.
That is part of the Nation.
This also means that some areas face unfair disadvantages and others advantages. The problem is so big that voices in the USA to attack China, because of monetary exchange problems are heard behind the scenes. China owns a lot more Dollars than the USA Yuan.
A kilo of flower is a very different value depending already only on the base currency and not anymore depending on climate zone and industrialisation level or the technology used of the farm it came from.
There is a way around that interesting for all areas suffering from that effect.
Your ministry creates lists of goods by demand levels divided by import and locally produced.
The idea is that a good with high demand will be exchanged with a product with little demand in higher volumes which can create profits it otherwise would not if exchanged against currency units.
It is a form of Arbitrage Trade, basically, but the customs taxes need to be adjusted. No money was exchanged, but product only.
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