North Frequesuan Trust

The North Frequesuan Trust is SiegeTank's nation in SDN_World.

General Information

Government

The North Frequesuan Trust (NFT) is an economic and political union of 2 member states, located primarily in Northern Frequesue. It was established by the Treaty of Incorporation on 4 July 2013 by the founding states San Dorado and Coilerburg.

The NFT operates through a hybrid system of subsidiarity and supranationalism. In certain areas it depends upon agreement between the member states. However, it also has significant supranational power, and is able to make sweeping decisions for all member governments.

Chief Executive Officer

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the most powerful office in the NFT, as the head of the Syndicate, the executive branch of the North Frequesuan Trust. The President is responsible for allocating portfolios to members of the Syndicate and can reshuffle or fire them if needed. He determines the Syndicate's policy agenda and all the legislative proposals it produces. The CEO's title is that of President.

The President is appointed by the member governments for five year terms. Once elected, the President, along with his Syndicate, is responsible to the member governments who can censure him. The current President is Sidney Hank, who took office in January 2014. Hank is the first President and has a mandate until the end of 2019.

The Syndicate

The Syndicate is the executive branch of the NFT. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the NFT's treaties and the general day-to-day running of the Trust. The Syndicate operates in the method of cabinet government, with 27 members, whose title is that of Commissioner.

The members of the Syndicate are nominated by the President, then confirmed by the member state legislatures (respectively the San Dorado Board of Directors and the Corporate Congress of Coilerburg). Members of the Syndicate serve terms of five years each, and concern themselves with intergovernmentalist and supranationalist matters, such as economic integration, cooperation on law enforcement and justice, regional development, defence and external economic-political policy.

Geography

• Area: 469,158 km²
• Member States: San Dorado, Coilerburg

People & Economy

• Language: Shroomanian (English)
• Population: 45,756,121 (June '15 est.)
• Currency: Dollar ($)
• Gross Domestic Product: $1.04 trillion (FY2015)
• GDP per capita: $21,942

Member States

San Dorado

• Conventional long form: Corporate Republic of San Dorado
• Independence: 1861

• Chief of state: President Daphne Sinclair

• Legislative branch: Board of Directors (75 seats). There are 76 electoral districts, each of which elects one director. The directors elect the President from among themselves; each remaining member of the Board runs one of the 75 directorates or sub-directorates. Depending on the importance of the electoral district from which a director is elected he or she will be assigned a more or less prestigious directorate to run.

• Judicial branch: Central Court

• Intelligence: Central Bureau for Intelligence (CBI or 'The Bureau'; internal); External Intelligence Agency (EIA or 'The Company'; external); Military Intelligence Corps (MIC or 'The Corps'; military intelligence)

• International organization participation: North Frequesuan Trust, Frequesue Treaty Organization, FUN (observer)

Geography

• Location: north-western tip Frequesue, bordering the Tanstaafl Raj and the Costa de las Cinco Muertes
• Area: 22,608 km²
• Notable features: Almost entirely covered in city-scape.
• Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nm; exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
• Climate: tropical; tropical; rainy, warm, cloudy southwest monsoon (mid-May to September); dry, cool northeast monsoon (November to mid-March); northern peninsula always hot and humid
• Natural resources: natural gas, petroleum, tin, iron ore, coal, limestone, niobium, lead, zinc

People & Economy

• Population: 24,112,901 (June '15 est.)
• Gross Domestic Product: $565.2 billion (FY2015)
• GDP per capita: $23,440

• Major Cities

1. San Dorado (13,259,098) 2. La Palma (5,008,120) 3. Port Regal (4,124,619)

• Major sources of income: mining; off-shire oil drilling; petrochemical industries; construction; heavy industry; electrical machinery and equipment; cheap labour; banking and investment [Switzerland-style banking secrecy]; transit hub for trans-Frequesuan import and export (sea, land and air); weapons production and trafficking

• Education: Two commercial universities (University of San Dorado and La Palma & Presidential University) provide quality education and research, but are very expensive. Many students travel abroad for higher education (particularly to Shroomania) because that is actually cheaper than to study in San Dorado.

• R&D: San Dorado's megacorporations maintain extensive research laboratories. The military is also a major sponsor of research, as are the two universities.

• Energy: San Dorado is, mainly due to the Power Tower, completely energy-independent. The nation is a major exporter of oil and oil-based products.

Coilerburg

• Conventional long form: Corporate Republic of Coilerburg
• Independence: 1916

• Chief of state: Chairman Rory Lorenz

• Legislative branch: Corporate Congress (92 seats). There are 93 electoral districts, each of which elects one Congressman. The Congressmen appoint the Chairman from among themselves. The Chairman then forms his/her own Cabinet. Cabinet members run the Central Departments.

• Judicial branch: Supreme Court

• Intelligence: Constabulary Intelligence Service (CIS; internal), Secretariat of External Security (SES; internal and external), Military Intelligence and Security Service (MISS; military intelligence)

• International organization participation: North Frequesuan Trust, Frequesue Treaty Organization

Geography

• Location: north-eastern tip Frequesue, bordering Sabika (to the east) and Omago (to the south)
• Area: 446,550 km²
• Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nm; exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
• Climate: varies with altitude; humid and tropical to cold and semiarid
• Natural resources: fertile plains of the pampas, lead, zinc, tin, copper, iron ore, manganese, petroleum, uranium

People & Economy

• Population: 21,643,220 (June '15 est.)
• Gross Domestic Product: $472.3 billion (FY2015)
• GDP per capita: $21,822

• Major Cities

1. Rotherburg (4,945,102) 2. Fallston (3,731,942) 3. Brentwood (2,641,991)

• Major sources of income: clothing and textiles, electric components, inorganic chemicals, crude minerals, fertilizers (including phosphates), petroleum products, citrus fruits, rice, grain, heavy industry

• Education: Coilerburg used to be home to a number of respectable institutes of higher learning, particularly in the fields of electrical engineering. However, higher education has deteriorated in the last twenty years, is now being reinvigorated.

• R&D: Mainly sponsored by foreign/semi-foreign (San Doradan) impulses.

• Energy: Energy generation is done mainly through coal and oil-fired plants. Plans for a series of nuclear power plants are being developed.