depends on how you define fiction and arbitrary - do you consider mathematics an arbitrary fiction?
I think abstraction is a better descriptor.
The entire human experience of life is an abstraction of reality, it necessarily must be, since brains have a finite processing capability. So money is a abstraction of human effort that can be traded for the efforts of another.
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