The Analogy War

The aliens arrived on 12-01-2012 and all Hell broke loose.

Not just one species, but two species at war with one another.

A large firefight between two fleets was observed with the results of one fleet being destroyed completely, and the other suffering 95% losses and the capable space ships fleeing the solar system. Left behind were several hundred ships from both sides in various states of disrepair and several thousand aliens of both species.

Both sides managed to land survivors and supplies and they choose to land fairly well on opposite sides of the planet, one group choose to land in China and one choose to land in the USA, choosing as it was later found to take over the most industrial places in order to build up and fight on with the population of Earth if some time were to elapse before the respective fleets could come back to fight it out and or rescue them.

After summarly shooting down several nukes and wasting the entire naval forces of every country on earth the red fleet of emergency shuttles settles down on the White House lawn, and the Yellow fleet set down in Peking.

The President of the USA was summoned to see the commander of the Red fleet and instructed that the full capacity of the USA was required and loyalty to the reds is the war against the Yellows. And furthermore all persons would have to submit to the authority of the Reds Republican Language Authority immediatly and start paying all tribute as soon as fitted with the Language.

The President of China was summoned to see the commander of the Yellow fleet and instructed that the full capacity of the Chinese was requried and loyalty to the yellows in the war against the Reds. And furthermore all citizens would have to submit to the authority of the Federal Time Authority and start paying for all time that persons are alive under the authorities jurisdiction.

At the CIA headquarters wheels were spinning and specialists were confused.
Apparantly the Reds somehow used language, words, communication as a way of trading and for status and something similar to money and taxes, and the Yellows used time as a system of transacting all exchanges.

When the president spoke back to the Red commander, he was screamed at, "silence", you have no language here! Each of my words is a debt to you worthless savages of a million years labor and tribute. You may speak only when I grant it.

When the Chinese Premier was summoned to the Yellow commander, he was after being told what the situation was immediately removed from the commanders conference room whilst attempting to speak back and was bruskly told that he had no time that the commanders moments of speaking to him were worth a thousand of his worthless lifetimes, and to shut up as he was now indebting himself to time he did not have to trade with his escorts.

Shortly all persons on the red side were implanted with devices that kept track of what you said and you were charged a tribute tax to the Language authority, and all the Yellows were fitted with time piece implants and charged tribute and time to the Time authority.

Baffled by it all neither side had any concern for money or taxes and they were obsessed with some bizzare accounting of time and language useage. Constantly going around and giving people bills for time and language and what was owed in equivalent in the future as goods and services and or pledged labor like a mortgage or credit card deal dealing wiht money.