A nations reputation alone can back a currency only if it is a worthless paper money, fiat money, contorlled and colelcted of inflated by the state at will. Thats why they implemented it. Material goods that can be bartered, will always find somebody who wills to barter something else for them. National reputation has nothing not do with that.
Thats why they do not want you to barter, may it be in gold, ressources or whatever. They want you to use their counterfeit currency, since only that is what they can control for some time. And if they take the apper oput of the cpaper moeny and make it all digital, they cna poludner and rob you per button pushing whenever they "legitimise themselves" to do so. The problem is the only way you can ever legtimise yourself for anything is - by using brute force against thy next. Which makes it then no legitimation at all, but only an act of violence.
Destroy a FIAT currency, and people will go back to bartering things. Install a new counterfeit paper "money" regime - they will, that is for certain - and see them punishing you with draconic penalties if you still barter (violations via blackmarkets usually get penalized very, very heftily.
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