About FICT

The Forum for International Cooperation and Trade (FICT) was officially founded on 25 June 2011 in the Kaupelanese capital of Purikali. FICT can be considered as the successor organisation of FICTS, which will be terminated once the ratification of the founding treaty of FICT will be completed by all FICT member states, five of which are currently members of FICTS.

FICT is an international organisation that aims to foster and improve economic, scientific and cultural development in, and cooperation and trade between its member states by means of:
 ▪ the (facilitation of) trade agreements;
 ▪ the exchange of industrial and technological
 - knowledge and ideas;
 ▪ scientific and technological cooperation and
 - knowledge exchange through the organisation
 - of scientific conferences and establishment of
 - international research institutes;
 ▪ the promotion of tourism and improvement of
 - traffic of people through a visa agreement;
 ▪ cultural exchange.

In real life, FICT is a geofictional project of a small number of persons that created their own countries. If you have created a fictional country on earth as well and you think that it fits in the FICT rules as stated here, you can send an application to the current participants through the FICT forum on www.geopoeia.net. Note that you have to register yourself in order to access the forum.
 

Rules and treaties

The two most important sets of rules are:
 
the Rules of FICT: the rules for (human)
 - participants and participation in FICT
 
the Treaty of Purikali: the formal agreement
 - between the member states
 

Links
  FICT on Geopoeia
 
The Kaupelanese Institute of Geography
 
News / Agenda

2012:
 ▪ 21 April: the Kaupelanese ambassador has
 ▪ taken over the Conference chair.
 ▪ 20 April: A group of FICT countries with more
 ▪ intensive ideas on cooperation announced
 ▪ negotiations for a new international
 ▪ organisation. Harrawi has put its membership
 ▪ on hold, calling back its ambassador.
 ▪ 4 April: First Council meeting in Dhram Đú, the
 ▪
capital of Dhram Phá, during which Chimor
 ▪ was admitted as the ninth member state of
 ▪ FICT. After that, differences of opinion
 ▪ surfaced between several member states and
 ▪ the Council meeting ended without further
 ▪ decisions.

2011:
 ▪ 23 December: Adzhatia ratified the Treaty of
 ▪ Purikali. It is the last founding country to do so.
 ▪ 4 November: Yutyrama ratified the Treaty of
 ▪ Purikali. Now only Adzhatia still has to ratify.
 ▪ 21 October: the parliament of Khusqaikama
 ▪ has ratified the Purikali Treaty, becoming the
 ▪ sixth country to do so. The FICT treaty has
 ▪ now entered into force. Ms. sSiôŋ Hau, from
 ▪ Dhram Phá, takes over the Conference chair.
 ▪ 5 October: Tarmorya has become the fifth
 ▪ country to ratify the Purikali Treaty.
 ▪ 5 September: The Yukkish parliament has
 ▪ ratified the Purikali Treaty. It is the fourth
 ▪ country to do so after Dhram Phá, Kaupelan
 ▪ and Harrawi.
 ▪ 29 August: The Harrawi parliament has ratified
 ▪ the Purikali Treaty with a comfortable majority.
 ▪ 18 July: The Kaupelanese parliament ratified
 - the Purikali Treaty.
 1 July: Official start of FICT as geofictional
 - project by the initial participants.
 ▪ 1 July: In its weekly session, the national
 - congress of Dhram Phá ratified the Purikali
 - Treaty. There was no discussion about the
 - issue and therefore no vote was needed.
 - Dhram Phá is the first country to ratify the
 - treaty.
 ▪ 25 June: Meeting of the heads of government
 - of the future member states of FICT in Purikali,
 - Kaupelan, for the official launch of the new
 - organisation.

 
Member States

Currently FICT has eight member states. These are all founding members of the organisation. Click on a flag to access the official country websites. Click on the name of the country to go to a short profile of that country.

Adzhatia
republic in north Europe
669,629 inhabitants
 

Khusqaikama
republic in east Asia
909,440 inhabitants
 

Chimor
republic in South America
12,374,108 inhabitants
 

Tarmorya
kingdom in north Africa
1,523,000 inhabitants
 

Dhram Phá
republic in south-east Asia
875,950 inhabitants
 

Yukland
republic in north Europe
361,000 inhabitants
 

Harrawi
republic in east Africa
1,004,367 inhabitants
 

Yutyrama
republic in South America
259,000 inhabitants
 

Kaupelan
kingdom in south-east Asia
3,977,000 inhabitants
 
 
Organisation of FICT

The FICT headquarters are located in the capital of Kaupelan, Purikali.

All member states are represented at the headquarters by means of an ambassador. These ambassadors meet in Conference whenever necessary; the conference prepares decisions. In alphabetical order of country names in English (not official state names), each ambassador serves a six month term as Chairman of the Conference or 'chairman' for short. The chairman and his or her secretariat are in charge of the management of the headquarters as well as the organisation of the conference and meetings of the council.

The Council consists of the heads of government or ministers of the member states. The Council convenes whenever a majority of member states and/or the Conference deems such necessary. All FICT decisions are made by the Council.

 
Chairpersons of FICT

Chairpersons of FICT have been:
02. Mr. Wasahi Aramduhun (KA)
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21 April 2012 - present
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1. Ms. sSiôŋ Hau (DP)
00. 21 October 2011 - 21 April 2012
00. Mr. Lowok Aralangit (KA) transitional
00. 25 June 2011 - 21 October 2011