User blog comment:Tribaldragon1/On the matter of Flying Ships/@comment-11254679-20140611060407/@comment-11135771-20140611232153

Like I said before, everyone's income would be much higher than it would realistically be, in order to allow navies to maintain large fleets. Like, Isreal might have 500 billion a year as its naval budget, maybe more. And although it would certainly slow down mass production of new ships, current fleets would stay the same.

P.S. By the way, most of the Prometheus Corporation's income right now is coming from the fairly sizeable portion of land on Neo-Earth that they took over when invading the Commonwealth. They have an extremely high taxation rate, and control the population through a combination of fear and being actually fairly decent to citizens who do what Prometheus tells them to.