Selling land won't work. The price of land increses for each
unit, as your amount of land increases.
Selling tech doesn't require citizens.
Go to CN forum, or your forum, look for people who is willing to
buy tech.
The person will usually pay 1.2 mill for tech deal.
Then, you will look for middleman. Middleman will receive 100k or
200k for being middleman.
Here is how tech trading works.
Person A is a high level player. As per unit of tech increases with
the increase in amount of tech a person has, for person A, buying
50 units of tech will cost him $3 million.
Person B is a complete newbie like you. As such, person B only
needs to spend 500k to buy 50 units of tech.
Person A offers to pay 1.2 million for tech. He saves the cost of
1.8 million if he buys it from person B, rather than buying it from
CN.
Person B agrees to buy tech and sells to person A since he will
gain more than 100k of profits from tech selling. That is a huge
sum for a newbie.
A middleman, person C, offers to be the middleman for 100k.
Person A, B, C agree to tech-trade.
Here is how tech-trading works:
1) Person A, the expert sends 1.3 million to the middle-man, person
C.
2) Person C keeps 100k for himself for being middle-man and passes
on 1.2 million to person B, the newbie.
3) Person B uses the 1.2 million person C sends to him to buy 50
units of tech.
50 units of tech for person B will cost less than 1.2
million.
4) Person B sends the 50 tech, which he uses person A's money to
buy, to person A, the expert. Person B keeps the profits and uses
it to buy infra.
In this way, person A, the expert makes 1.8 million since he saves
that amount of money.
Person B, the newbie, makes (1.2million-800k to buy 50 tech=400k)
of money.
Person C, the middleman makes 100k.
You don't have to need the money to buy tech to sell it. They money
will be sent to you by person A to a middle man, person C, and
person C will send the money to you.
Use the money person A send to you to buy the tech. Send person A
the tech, and keep the profits for yourself. Even if you have no
money, or you are a newbie, you can still do it. Hope that
helps.
When I do tech-trading, I don't have the money to buy the tech
either. I use the money the person who wants to buy tech sends to
me to buy the tech and sends back the tech to him, while I keep the
profits to myself.
One Word of Danger: Sometimes, someone attacks you before you can
buy the tech, and you ends up losing the money to the somone in a
war, and ends up unable to have the money to buy tech, and unable
to pay person A the money he sends to you.