Food repurposed as amenities

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Food -> Amenities

Since that can tie in to military supplies too (armies need clothes, firewood, cutlery etc) and armies use food in Imperator It can be the equivalent of Stellaris consumer goods

Also a big portion of the trade and industry mechanics we can tie to a hard-coded value, which is always good for performance

Ooh and if we can have 1 amenity = 1 unit of wealth

Well that makes it easy to calculate private spending, and hence stuff like GDP

Whenever amenities are consumed, they're purchased unless the state is giving them out for free. So the consumption gives the amount of wealth that goes from the consumers to the vendors (that would be things like upper strata, foreign traders) And we can also easily calculate consumption tax

[sobisonator]

ATM lower strata of pops produce roughly 1 good. Each good provides 0.5 monthly amenities, which is enough to sustain 50 pops... needs balancing but not sure what yet