Nordic Council

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Nordic Council
Symbol of the Nordic Council
Member states and regions of the Nordic Council (blue).
HeadquartersVale Lutèce, Vale
Working languages Valois
Type Intergovernmental organization
Membership
9 states / territories
Leaders
 -  President Karin Åström
 -  Director (Secretariat) Étienne Desrosiers
 -  Chairperson Gwyneth Cerys MacCarrick
 -  General Secretary (Secretariat) Maeve Edna Orman
Establishment
 -  Nordic Council 1665 
Population
 -  1713 estimate 135,880,000
Currency

The Nordic Council is a geo-political inter-parliamentary forum for co-operation between the Nordic countries and the United Kingdoms that was established after the Tiberium Wars. Its first concrete result was the introduction in 1664 of a common labour market and free movement across borders without passports for the countries' citizens.

Structure[edit | edit source]

Council[edit | edit source]

The Nordic Council consists of 99 representatives, elected from its members' parliaments and reflecting the relative representation of the political parties in those parliaments. It holds its main session in the autumn, while a so-called "theme session" is arranged in the spring. Each of the national delegations has its own secretariat in the national parliament. The autonomous territories - Svalbard and the Faroe Islands - also have Nordic secretariats.

The Nordic Council uses Valois as its official working language, but also publishes material in all the other official languages of the member states and also in Basic and Aegean. Since 1687, under the Nordic Language Convention, citizens of the Nordic countries have the opportunity to use their native language when interacting with official bodies in other Nordic countries without being liable to any interpretation or translation costs. The Convention covers visits to hospitals, job centres, the police and social security offices. The languages included are Cornish, Cumbric, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Irish, Mercian, Scottish, Valois and Welsh.

The Council does not have any formal power on its own, but each government has to implement any decisions through its country's legislative assembly (parliament). With the Nordic Commonwealth and the United Kingdoms being members of NATO and Vale being neutral, the Nordic Council has not been involved in any military cooperation.

Members[edit | edit source]

Members of the Council:

State Membership Parliament Membership status Represented since Members USKO relation
 England full Parliament sovereign state 1685 20
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 Greenland full Folketing sovereign state 1665 3 United States of Kobol Organization member
Flag of Iceland.svg Iceland full Alþingi sovereign state 1665 5 United States of Kobol Organization member
 Ireland full Parliament sovereign state 1685 10 United States of Kobol Organization member
 Scotland full Parliament sovereign state 1685 10 United States of Kobol Organization member
Flag of Vale.png Vale full Sénat sovereign state 1665 40 United States of Kobol Organization member
 Wales full Parliament sovereign state 1685 7 United States of Kobol Organization member
 Faroe Islands associate Løgting Autonomous territory of Vale 1670 2 Associate
 Svalbard associate Storting Autonomous territory of Vale 1670 2 Associate
 Baltic Commonwealth observer Parliament sovereign state 1665 United States of Kobol Organization member
 Batavia observer Parliament sovereign state 1665 United States of Kobol Organization member
 Russia observer Federal Parliament sovereign state 1706 United States of Kobol Organization member