The GreenStar Free-Market Exchange Network would, in simple terms, be TMP’s answer to NASDAQ. It would be a digital financial exchange network, established when one or more Aquarius colonies moves to fully international waters and achieves political autonomy and sovereignty. Consequently, it is likely to be a very late development of the Foundation CIC. The GSFMEN would function much like other digital trading systems except it would be designed to be inclusive rather than exclusive, combining many types of financial instruments including commodities, underwriting, and loans into one market system and allowing direct trading by individuals without the hierarchy common to established financial markets. Despite its attempts to adopt a high-tech veneer, the financial systems of the present da