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This is a Disney Dollar. You can tell it’s not a real dollar because Mickey Mouse has not been elected President of the United States. But it's not a fake dollar either—this was a real form of currency that saw use for nearly 30 years. You see, Disney has a very weird history of treating itself like a government—and in fairness to them, that’s because they literally are a government. At least in this part of central Florida, where they can manage their own utilities, issue themselves liquor licenses, and, when the time comes, exercise their legal right to become the world's tenth nuclear power. But, since running an autocratic government in the middle of a swamp can get kind of old, Disney decided to take the next step in the late 1980s and start their own currency. Now, this raises a few questions like, “are you actually allowed to do that?” and… well, that’s the only question. But the answer to that question is kinda complicated. You see, the US constitution basically just has one vague little sentence about who can print money, and it shockingly doesn’t acknowledge the possibility of a privately-owned currency printed by a cartoon duck who—guess what—was not even born in the United States. But the consensus seems to be that you can distribute your own private currency, if you throw about a hundred asterisks after that sentence. One of these asterisks has to do with how people perceive the currency; if there is any way that someone could confuse it for government-issued money, then the government would issue you… a bonk on the head. And this has happened—in the mid-2000s, a guy named Bernard von NotHaus started printing and minting a new currency called “Liberty Dollars.” Now, these weren’t all that different from other small-scale community currencies like Massachusetts' “BerkShares” or New York’s “Ithaca Hours,” but the problem was that too many people thought they were official US currency—after all, they were called dollars, used the dollar sign, said “trust in God,” came in the exact same denominations as US currency, and the coins looked exactly like US coins except they had Ron Paul’s face on them. And because these two middle aged men didn’t look different enough, the Liberty Dollars were deemed counterfeit and… I was going to make some joke about “NotHaus ending up in the nuthouse,” but really he just ended up in federal prison. Now, the other main restriction on private currencies is how they can be used. Disney was not the first company with the bright idea to make their own dollars—that actually started with the coal mining companies of the 19th century. But those coal companies weren’t making their very own coal bucks as cute souvenirs to remember your time down in the coal mine, they were making them to screw over the proletariat. Basically, since the mining camps didn’t usually have much cash on hand, they would pay their workers with their own made-up currency instead; this...