Mint Italy Overview and Rules

About Mint Italy, from BoardGameGeek:

Mint Italy is a mid-to-heavy economic game that involves area control, resource management, and market manipulation. Players compete to build settlements, trade goods, and complete contracts on a small island off of the coast of Italy. Players must increase their wealth, upgrade their abilities, trade or produce goods, complete contracts, and compete for land in this engine-building strategy game. Players take turns performing 1 of several player actions. Once all players have passed, the round is over and each player scores for an end-of-round scoring condition. After 4 rounds, the game is over. The player with the most victory points wins!