After the preliminary discussions, the rankings to be released in the first issue were finally decided.
"Monopoly List," "Beauty Ranking," and "Strategist Ranking" were all rejected. The Monopoly List was basically impossible, because the intention to fleece people was far too obvious. Releasing it would be equivalent to showing the vast masses of poor bastards a clear path to crossing the class divide. If the Yan Confederation dared to publish a Monopoly List, it would surely be unable to make the slightest headway in the outer districts—wealthy people everywhere would join forces to stop such a thing.
The "Beauty Ranking" was not technically difficult. If used properly, it might even evolve into a mass beauty trap that provoked infighting among all sides. However, the Righteousness Guard strongly opposed it—it was far too vulgar. Besides, Xianchan Chenchen suspected they wanted to put him on the list, so he firmly objected.
The rankings still had to make money, of course. But to expand their influence, the main rankings would naturally be released almost free of charge. Besides, no one would want to buy a ranking to collect—wouldn't it be enough for everyone to share a copy and chat about it? And the rankings would be updated, so what would be the point of buying one?
After discussing it, everyone decided that the "Beauty Ranking" could be sold as expensive DLC, released once a year with high-definition beauty portraits included. In this age without portrait rights, the Yan Confederation could of course do whatever it wanted. They might even recoup their costs through DLC sales alone.
If the market responded well, they could release a "Beauty Ranking" skin-feature edition, swimsuit DLC, exotic-style DLC, Statistics Department uniform DLC...
They could even introduce a gacha system. Every copy of the "Beauty Ranking" would come with