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The final hall is the most unusual, and the most grown-up. The Game shares section is where players trade CoinRepublik shares with each other, which means you can own a small piece of the game itself. Before you picture anything complicated, hold on to one plain fact: this is a second-hand market. When you buy here, you are buying shares that another player already owns and has decided to sell, not brand-new shares freshly issued from the treasury. It is much like a flea market for ownership, where everything on the table has had a previous owner.

Unlike the other halls, the share market is simpler in one respect. Shares trade only on the global market, always in gold. There is no local version, no second tab to flip; everyone in the game meets in one place and deals in the one premium currency. That makes shares a truly worldwide affair, which suits something that represents a slice of the whole game rather than any one country.

That single-market simplicity is actually a small mercy after everything else you have learned. With goods and people you always had to keep one eye on which market you were standing in and which currency you were dealing in, flipping the tab to compare. Shares spare you all of that. There is only ever one price, one currency and one crowd, so the only question left is the plain one: is this share worth its asking price to you? Strip away the local-versus-global juggling and what remains is the purest sort of trade in the whole game, which is rather fitting for the hall where you buy a piece of the game itself.

What you are really buying: future income

Now for the heart of it, the bit that makes shares more than just a token. Each share pays a dividend of 0.0001 gold every single day. That is small for one share, but it never stops, and it is the same whether you bought the share or were given it. So the share market is really a market in future income. When a buyer pays for a share, what they are truly paying for is that steady daily trickle of gold the share will keep producing, day after day, for as long as they hold it. You are not buying a thing; you are buying a tiny, endless stream.

It helps to think of price in that light. If a share quietly pays 0.0001 gold a day, then what someone is willing to pay for it on the market reflects how much they value that ongoing trickle. There is no fixed right answer; like any market, the price is whatever buyers and sellers agree on at the time. So when you read the share market, you are weighing the cost today against the slow drip of income tomorrow, which is a genuinely different kind of judgement from trading a sack of grain.

A gentle word for the newcomer, because shares can feel like deep water. There is no pressure to touch this hall at all in your early days. Goods and people will keep you busy and growing for a good long while, and you can leave the share market well alone until you are curious and have spare gold sitting idle. When that day comes, treat it calmly: a share is a slow, patient thing, valued for the steady 0.0001 gold a day it keeps paying, not for any quick win. Nothing about shares needs to be rushed, and understanding the simple idea, that you are buying a small daily income, is far more important than dabbling early. Think of this whole hall as something to grow into rather than something you have skipped, a quiet corner that will still be waiting, unchanged, on the day you finally feel ready for it. The shares are not going anywhere, and neither is the chance to own one.

Selling shares, and the one you cannot

Selling works just like the other halls. You can sell shares you bought or earned, listing them for whatever price you like and waiting for a buyer, with the lighter share fees we met earlier. There is one gentle exception to remember, though. The free welcome share you were given at signup can never be sold. It is yours to keep forever, a little founding stake in the game. And here is the kind part: even though you can never sell it, that welcome share still pays you its dividend every day, right alongside any others you own. So it is a gift that quietly keeps giving.

That difference between the shares you can sell and the one you cannot is worth holding clearly, because it shapes how you think about each. Any share you buy on this market, or otherwise earn, is fully yours to sell again later if you change your mind, so trading them is a two-way street. The welcome share is the one exception: a permanent fixture you can never list, but which faithfully drips its 0.0001 gold a day for as long as you play. So you never have to fret about accidentally selling the one share you cannot replace; the game simply will not let you. Everything else in this hall, you may buy and sell as freely as any sack of grain.

One last thing, so you know all your options. The share market is for second-hand shares passing between players. If instead you want brand-new shares straight from the source, those come as share packages, which are covered fully in the Gold chapter. The two routes complement each other nicely, and which you choose depends on whether you want a fixed package or the freedom to name your own size and price. With that, you have now walked through all four halls of the market. The final lesson gathers the whole chapter into a handful of habits.