cocks ahoy

Like, you the player have inherited your semi-estranged Grandmother's Clown Ranch via her will. Disillusioned with the corporate drone lifestyle you take a trip out to see the place, and while it's definitely seen better days and has fallen into such disrepair that there aren't even many clowns left there, you smell opportunity and decide to revitalize the ranch and live the Clown Husbandry Life!

Your first clown is a Rodeo Clown inherited from your Grandma, the only clown she had left, and the ranch starts out with some obvious farming game themes borrowed from the likes of Stardew Valley and Story of Seasons. But as you progress you can customize the ranch depending on what kinds of clown you favor, and the actual mechanics have more theme park and zoo sim than farming elements.

Build enrichment for the clowns and attractions for the humans to come and socialize with them. Adopt your clowns out to good homes for humble profits, or make a mint by selling them for higher profit to more questionable buyers. Train your clowns to help increase the ranch's income via shows, parties, and festivals, or hone their skills as hunters and thieves and send them to loot the nearby city.

Different clowns have different inclinations and abilities, and you can breed them for more specialized traits down the line. As the story progresses you can unlock various Clown Dimensions where wild clowns roam, these dimensions are all suffering from some hardship though. Help them with their problems to access new clown types and functions, such as humanely releasing unwanted clowns, traveling to new markets to put on shows, or pleasing the Clown Gods to receive blessings.

Watch out for the Scary Clown breeds in the wild (think Pennywise). They can and will kill you if given the chance, but a skilled enough Clown expert may be able to tame even the most terrifying of encounters, and perhaps find room on their ranch for these misfit predators...

OP: Why couldn’t traditional Chinese Yinpiao银票/silver drafts be forged if they were merely slips of paper? (cr大明宝钞，渐越)

Traditional Chinese yinpiao/silver drafts were paper vouchers issued by private banks starting from the Song Dynasty(960–1279). People could exchange these slips for physical silver at bank branches across the country.

Silver drafts were made in multiple copies with matching serrated seal edges. One copy went to the customer and others stayed at the bank. All edges had to fit perfectly together to withdraw silver. The unique split edge marks were almost impossible to copy.

This mechanism is known as qifeng骑缝 (split-joint seal) in China. It first originated in the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046–771 BC). The Rites of Zhou records that contracts were written on bamboo or wooden slips in duplicate. Notches and marks were carved in the middle before splitting the slips, with each party keeping one half. The two halves would be matched by their notches for verification.

During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (770–221 BC), this idea evolved into hufu虎符/tiger tally tokens. A military tally was split into two pieces with identical inscriptions carved along the split edge. Troops could only be deployed if the patterns and characters on both halves perfectly aligned, serving as a metal version of the split-joint anti-counterfeiting system.

The technology matured in the Tang Dynasty (618–907). Government documents and private contracts commonly used split-joint seals stamped across the dividing line. The Chinese character "hetong合同" (contract) was written across the middle before the paper was torn apart, so the complete characters would only appear when the two halves were put together. This split-coupon system was later adopted for Song Dynasty (960–1279) jiaozi paper money and yinpiao/silver drafts of the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368–1912).

Official Song dynasty paper money (Jiaozi交子) was abolished in 1107. Private silver drafts issued by Qing-era piaohao票行 (ancient exchange banks) vanished completely in 1951, hit hard by modern banks and currency reforms. Nowadays silver drafts no longer circulate as currency. Their collectible value depends on their rarity and physical condition.