Volanca

**Volanca** (Various Operative Legislature Administrations of Nation Cooperative Associates) is a fictional country made by Paul Barbato made for April Fool's Day 2022. It is a nation of quiet secret agents with no land but has access to almost anywhere in the world. Nobody is born a citizen but rather trained in elite humanitarian service fields to earn it. After about 8 decades of covert existence as a recognized entity, Volanca finally disclosed their "statehood" to the public in 2014. There is a Reddit for the country too

## Country Details

Volanca's territory is actually based on individual property ownership and leasing rights, technically any citizen that is a homeowner or even long-term state-owned leaseholder can apply to have their "land" dedicated to Volanca for a set contractual amount of years, given that their home country recognizes the Volanca accord of 1946 (Volanca was the original name before 1952's switch adopting the word "organization" for "accumulated" in the acronym), shortly after the UN was formed, this is the closest thing to a "land" that the nation can claim for itself, this means that a homeowner may apply to have their property sponsored by the Volanca government for payments like mortgage and utilities, however they also agree that their home must be used at least in part for hosting and serving travelers of Volanca citizenship as the home becomes citizenship domain, think of it as like a free Airbnb pass if you are part of a special club. The system works on a vouching system, made notice to all citizens, originally it was accessible by mail catalog and by phone, and during the digital age, it grew to online records, if you are part of a hosting program you can only reject hosting a citizen upon their request if your home is already full, or if the citizen has been vouched for dishonorable conduct, otherwise Volanca does not have an official permanent capital, however from what we do know, that has been publicly declassified they have 6 headquarters operating at a time on every inhabited continent, these headquarters are usually commercial properties sponsored by the Volanca government and are not open for citizen access unless they are government officials, these headquarters are then switched after their tri-annual switch-off in which they relocate to different properties, they do not reveal where these headquarters are unless it is an absolute emergency due to a diplomatic issue, internal conflict or certain catastrophic incident affecting the community, based on declassified records we only know of 2 former headquarters that existed in the past and were promptly relocated due to such incidents, a business close to Montreal Stock Exchange Building in 1969 during the FLQ Bombings, and a business in Plymouth, Montserrat Island in the Caribbean after the 1995 La Soufrière Volcano erupted which destroyed the entire town under 12 feet of volcanic ash.

## Demographics

It has at least 195,000 citizens registered worldwide and accepts 1,500 non-family member applicants a year for consideration into citizenship, we do not know the specific makeup of these citizens but what we do know is that there are about equal shares of citizens operating in Europe and Asia, at about 30% each, from there Africa takes up about 17%, North America and the Caribbean 12%, South America 9%, and Oceania at 2%. Their currency and plug outlets apply to whatever countries they live in however amongst each other they exchange Volanca Factures as their currency which is kind of more like a nation debit system in case, they are in a remote area with no bank access, they can just give a certain code, which will withdraw funds that they need to give to their other hosts, it's a complicated monetary system.