SHIPWRECKED ON AN ISLAND

1. Nicole Ratcliffe, Jessayln Geer, Lexi Kahler, Anna Larson, and Alysa Graf SHIPWRECKED ON AN ISLAND Our guide to survival.

2. OUR ISLAND

3. BASIC NEEDS • Food: We will eat whatever small amounts of food are on the ship, using it sparingly and distributing it throughout the residents of our island. It will then be each families responsibility to provide for itself. • Water: We will provide drinking water by boiling water from the ocean in pots found on the ship that we arrived on as well as small fresh-water lakes to drink from • Shelter: building our houses will be a communal effort

4. OUR ECONOMIC PLAN? • Goal: to create an economic system to support the next generation • Trade with the Natives • find another source of trade • be eventually able to move away from our mixed economy and establish a free market economy • Establish a leader and a congress: to approve decisions made by the leader. • Basic plan: In the beginning, we will establish a command economy in which everyone is told what they will produce and how much of it. • Distribution of resources: 401K system • farmers give half of what they produce, fishermen and hunters give half of what they catch, laborers build whatever is necessary • Building our houses will be a communal effort, not a paid job because it is important that we all have shelter. Before we establish an economy, we first have to make certain that we have all the basic resources to survive: food, water, shelter.

5. What are we doing with the land???

6. LAND... • Don’t waste anything! Use everything you take; if you kill an animal, use everything part of it, and no hoarding of goods! • Basic measuring system: set amount of food for one adult and for one child and if you need it, you pick it up every morning. • Establish a “401K” system: • For example: If you are a farmer and you give half of your goods produced to the community and keep half for yourself, when you’re older you will be taken care of by the community and your goods will be provided for you. • Land ownership: In the beginning, we will all have equal rights to the land. Splitting up the land in the beginning will not foster the team work atmosphere that is important at this phase. As time goes on and people are able to establish their own families and jobs, we will split off the land into equal sections.

7. WHAT WORK ARE WE DOING? • Jobs: hunting, making houses, blacksmith, fishing, basket weaving, carpenter, regulating goods and resources, cartographer, wildlife preservation (count of animals)

8. CAPITAL • We will produce: canoes, weapons (spears, bows), fishing gear, clothes, baskets • Available resources: wood, animal hides, rocks, bamboo, metal, gasoline, coal

9. PROBLEMS WE ENCOUNTERED? • Native People: We discovered a native tribe also living on the island. • We will establish peaceful relations with them to that we are able to trade with and learn from them • They have coal under their land that we would like to be able to use. Once we have established relations with them, we could offer our services in exchange for access to the coal. • Such services include: • teaching them how to make warmer clothes • cleaning methods to prevent disease • Blacksmith services • Helping them to build better homes