Once upon a time, there was a man named Nickolas Febron. We’ll just call him Nick. Nick was born in the late 1800′s and was highly influenced by the big forming companies, like Carnegie Steel, Rockefeller Petroleum, and Sears. He decided that as he got older that he would be just like them and become a huge member of business. He would build and tinker and draw up schematics and designs for all his ideas. One could say that he was quite a genius.

Jolly old Saint Nickolas

Nick, unlike many other member in the world of economics didn’t care about the money he was making, as long as he had business, he was always jolly as long as he had something to do. That meant to him, competition was all about getting people just to walk out with your stuff. Nick’s prices got so low that he soon was spending his own money to keep his company afloat and had to lay off many of his workers that quickly got picked up by the competition for all the mad skillz they learned from working with and for Nick. Nick got less business, but he didn’t really notice since he was working so hard to keep up with the demand of his products. Nick made everything from toys, to house hold appliances, to even cars. Nick was nearly breaking even with all his costs and expenses with how much he made in profit. But soon other companies found how to make things at cheaper costs equivalent to Nick and were soon competing with him with the little amount of customers he had left. Nick then decided that he would under cut everyone to a price no one could match out of fear of going out of business. This made Nick lose a lot of his machines for business, but earned him the name Saint Nick from allowing even the poorest of poor to have some of life’s luxuries.

The Other Underground Railroad

This sadly put Nick exactly where everyone wanted him, out of business… Or so they thought. Nick was a master at about everything he put his hands to, this included thievery as well. Nick be came an outlaw that was very famous, but never considered real in the history books. He became known as the Shadow. Because he would steal from trains and companies without leaving a trace behind, and at most it would look like someone made a mistake in shipping, or in calculations of how much steel or fuel was produced. Nick shot back into business through these means and was able to have even lower prices since all he had to pay for was the building to produce whatever he needed to sell. Soon many people were having cars and house hold appliances, and companies felt that they were dishing out a good amount and thought that they should produce more.

The Depression

This sadly turned into a time known as the Great Depression. Companies started to take out loans to mass produce appliances and vehicles seeing on how popular they were in the north east where Nick was and that it should be like that in all of America. Soon car lots and appliance stores were jam packed through out the US of A, and people were taking out loans to have these luxuries. What people didn’t know was that Nick was giving out his for practically free, and that there was actually no money in the banks, and that even though it looked like everyone was in the money, there really wasn’t any anywhere. Companies soon had to lay off workers from the lack of sales, and the banks had no flow of money in from all the loans they had given out that people weren’t able to pay back, and those few that weren’t in debt but lost their jobs could not pull out money from their saving because of banks closing from having no money. Soon there was no work, and even Nick had to close down since there was nothing able to keep him in business. Nick soon learned what had happened with how his prices in competing with other companies drove the economy into the ground and he blamed himself and then traveled the country making tools for people looking for work on farms and he tried his best to help people find work. After a decade and a few years, Japan attacked pearl harbor.

Life on the run

With the attack on pearl harbor, Nick felt that he was to blame and that Japan was attacking because of how bad the economy had gotten world wide. Nick quickly went to Europe after hearing of Hitler in hopes of turning himself in. As Nick was traveling, he thought to himself that if he provided basic essentials and things that would just help people make it through life everyday without mass producing like before, that he could help stimulate the economy by allowing people to have more money to spend on other things than the basic standard of living. On his arrival in Europe, he met some scientist and decided to share with them his research on energy from splitting atoms, and showing them that energy could be made much cheaper, and that it might help stimulate the economy using this idea. Those scientist gladly took the research seeing how it could be turned into a weapon that could end the war without even thinking about applying it to what Nick had mentioned. They ran off to America to get support from the government in hopes of ending the war. Nick on the other hand finally found Hitler and decided to apologize for ruining the economy and was hoping in trading in his life that the war would end. Hitler laughed at Nick and told him that he should probably get out of Europe do to the war and since he liked his sense of humor that he should take care of himself and that Nick had nothing to worry about since he wasn’t a Jew, cripple, Gypsy, or any other group despised by Hitler. Hitler also added in that he liked how Nick had rosy cheeks (Hitler was a very odd charismatic man…). Nick quickly ran off confused about what was what and headed north to the north pole since he felt that the war would take over everywhere but there.

The Elf Enslavement, and Beyond

In the north pole, Nick ran into a new species that no one had discovered yet. He was fascinated with how the culture worked, and did much research on them and was impressed with their technology. He saw that they would fight countless wars with each other, and that the losers would be turned into slaves of the winners, and that the slaves got along better with other slave tribes than the remaining tribes got along with each other. He called these new creatures Elves (plural form of ELF [Engineering Little Freaks], he was thinking about calling them dwarfs or midgets but felt that those names might have been politically incorrect, and that since Orlando Bloom stereotype of elf hadn’t been invented yet [since Bloom had not even been born yet] that it was a perfectly acceptable name, some later felt that goblins or gnomes would have been a better name, but Santa will not go back on his naming convention.). He decided that the best way to get labor for his plans to better the world economy would probably be solved with conquering the elves. So with the limited resources he had, and the grand amount of designs he had saved, he declared war on the elves. The war was a long and hard one, lasting many months, and ending around the same time as WWII. Many elves were killed during the war with Nick, but Nick and the remaining elves that became his slaves quickly learned how to understand each other and they quickly dug into the untapped resources under the north pole and developed Nick’s workshop where the elves continue to work till this day (many attempts at people trying to get Nick on illegal labor have had trouble pressing charges since elves are not people and Nick’s workshop is a clean safe working environment [so the parts they've inspected...], but these charges has driven Nick to move his shop underground along with the people trying to steal his designs and ideas from satellite imagining). Nick found that if he used the earth electrical field with his energy plans that he could develop a way to levitate and travel at almost the speed of light in his sleigh that he was using to get around the north pole. Using this he would load up the back of his sleigh with goods to deliver around the world. Using deer he found he could balance the weight and that the fur would make musical noise like bells at the speeds that they traveled. Nick also took into consideration his timing for deliveries, that it would be best on December 25th because of the cold months of the early new year, and that tax day was April 15th in the US of A (where all the trouble by him started) and it would be best if he gave people a good amount of time to get their new things fitted into their lives by then, and would be able to use their tax deductions on things better than life basics. Many children try to write Saint Nick a year, and many people try to steal his inventions. Only very few post men know how to reach him, and Nick quickly stopped visiting certain neighborhoods do to the government working on catching him to use more of his ideas for war (like atom splitting), and because many families have grown upset with him spoiling their kids. Companies have also been after Santa for copyright infringement, in mimicking their designs for different toys that children want but could never afford.

Today…

Whether or not you or your family believe in Santa, he still tries his best to stimulate the economy and help provide comfort to the majority of the world not after him or his ideas. Also, he has grown tired of many people mistaking his workshop for an evil lair and asks that during this frightful time of global warming and the polar ice caps melting that people take no notice if any of it sticks up above the ice. Just remember, Santa’s always watching who’s naughty or nice, just like the US government was tapping phones and breaking privacy laws =3.