Tickar

Tickar is a fictional currency used in various works of speculative fiction and role-playing games. It serves as the standard unit of account in imagined economies, with its details varying by author, setting, and game system. Because tickar is a fictional construct, there is no single canonical design; writers use it to explore economic concepts such as scarcity, exchange, and value.

In many settings, tickar value is decoupled from real-world metal content and can be time-based or labor-based. For example, some worlds peg tickar to hours of work or to a basket of common goods. Denominations and forms of tickar differ widely: some stories present coins or notes minted by a central authority, while others use digital tokens or ledger-based credit. Prices in tickar are often used to reflect social status, regional variation, and political power, enabling world-building through currency mechanics.

Tickar also appears in game systems, where it functions as a lightweight economy mechanic to track wealth, trade, and resource scarcity. Role-players may barter, invest, or speculate using tickar, and inflation or debasement can be used as plot devices to drive narratives.

Related topics include currency in fiction and economic systems in world-building.