Cupertino Alliance Factbook

Cupertino Alliance Factbook
The cover of the Cupertino Alliance Factbook (February 2021)
Created	15 February 2021
Author(s)	As of February 2021, 12 named contributors
Purpose	To be the premier guide on geographical, population, and governmental information about micronations in the Cupertino Alliance.

The Cupertino Alliance Factbook, also known as the CA Factbook is a reference resource produced by the Cupertino Alliance (CA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the member nations of the Cupertino Alliance, based on the Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook. The factbook is available on the Issuu website, but it is also available for download as a pdf for offline use. It was started on 26 May 2020 and planned to be released in June - July 2020. Its release date was delayed as the Cupertino Alliance's member base increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. On 30 January 2021, the Alliance announced that the full factbook would be published in February 2021. A public preview copy of the factbook was released to the public on the same date, containing information about the Kingdom of West Sayville.

First attempt

In the 17th session of the Cupertino Alliance, Jayden Lycon wanted to make a version of the CIA World Factbook for Cupertino Alliance members. The creation of the Factbook would also involve management of an inter-micronational census to gather information. A plan was written regarding the Factbook which included topics that the project would cover, with a follow-up report detailing how the information would be added. Near mid-June 2020, a prototype of the physical copies of the Cupertino Census was made in both English as well as in the Alternative English Romanization System. However, plans for the Census and Factbook were later cancelled in August 2020 due to a focus on the execution of the Regional Sessions Act, as well as time constraints due to extra-curricular and recreational activities.

Revival

The project was revived on 9 November 2020 with the establishment of a standing committee in order to manage the census and Factbook. The revival was later talked about in the following European and African session on 15 November 2020, where it was met with a positive response by Parliament. The beginnings of the standing committee was to resolve how the census could be done physically considering the coronavirus pandemic. Due to the lack of time, as well as the shipping costs and logistical systems needed, the choice of allowing physical entries of the Cupertino Alliance Census was scrapped.

A preview edition of the factbook was released to the public 17 days before the full edition was published. The Factbook was published on 14 February 2021, one day before the chairmanship of Jayden Lycon was to end. The next literation of the Census/Factbook was planned for June or July 2021, with an tentative plan being released on 1 July. The plan called for the census to be held on 18 July - 18 August, with the Factbook being released by 5 September.

On 5 January 2022, a job listing was posted for help on the Factbook. On 6 February 2022, Jayden Lycon hinted at a renewal of the Factbook for the February season.

Contents

Page 18 of the Factbook, which contains a map and list of subdivisions for Australis.

The Factbook includes a list and reasoning on the questions asked, as well as nation profiles. Each nation profile contains four sections, which are geography, population, government, and Cupertino Alliance information. The first section bears the meat of the Factbook and comprises of data sourced from the CA Census or their respective governments:

• Location
• Macronational nation
• Köppen climate classification
• Physiographic region
• Land area

The population section contains:

• Total population
• Median and mean ages
• Age information
• Gender information
• Sexual information
• Ethnicity information
• First and secondary language information
• Religious information

The next section, government, contains information relating to a member's government. This includes:

• Government type
• Head of state and their title
• Head of government and their title
• Capital

The last section lists information relating to a member and their relation to the Cupertino Alliance. This includes:

• Total number of delegates
• Information relating to each delegate, including their:
  • Name
  • Delegation seat (e.g. Aenopia at-large)
  • Roles as a parliamentarian
• Information relating to past delegates, including their:
  • Name
  • Date of leaving delegation

Not every profile has every category (e.g. Desert District lacks a category relating to government). Furthermore, at the start of a nations' profile page, there is a map as well as colour coated list of sub-divisions.

Copyright and usage

The Factbook is in the public domain, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. Any person can reproduce the document without asking for permission. When referencing the factbook, the author must be attributed.

Cupertino Alliance census

1st Cupertino Alliance census
11 December 2020 - 24 January 2021
General information
Country	Participating members of the Cupertino Alliance
Topics	Census topics Contact information (not published) Age Gender information Sexual information Ethnicity Religious information Language
Authority	Cupertino Alliance Respective governments
Results
Total population	110 over 19 member states
Most populous ​member nation	Monmark
Least populous ​member nation	Nemkhavia Qaflana Saspearian Scoria

The main method of sourcing information for the Factbook is the Cupertino Alliance census. The census is a population census limited currently to online responses. The census works on a centralized system, where individual Google Forms is issued by the alliance to each nation's governments, where it is then the respective governments' responsibility to distribute these forms to their citizens.

Census responses that are not on the Factbook are then deleted post-publishing after a grace period has passed for corrections.

The most recent census, held on 11 December 2020 - 24 January 2021, counted a population of 110 over 19 member nations.

Questions asked

The first census held on 11 December 2020 - 24 January 2021, collected data ranging from gender information to ethnicity. Questions asked and answering options were:

Question	Stated purpose	Question type	Options
What is your name?	Security measure, confidential	Typed answer
What is your age?	Age information	Typed answer
What is your gender identity?	Gender information	Multiple choice	Male
			Female
			Non-binary
			Prefer not to say
			Other
What is your sexual orientation?	Sexual information	Multiple choice	Hetrosexual
			Homosexual
			Bisexual
			Pansexual
			Prefer not to say
			Other
What is your ethnicity?	Ethnic information	Dropdown	White/European
			Black/African
			East Asian
			South Asian
			Arabian/West Asian
			Latin American
			American Indian
			Any other ethnic background
			Prefer not to say
What is your faith/religion?	Religious information	Multiple choice	Christianity (all denominations)
			Protestantism
			Roman Catholic
			Hinduism
			Buddhism
			Sikhism
			Judaism
			Atheism
			Agnosticism
			Unaffiliated
			Other
What is your first language?	Language information	Dropdown	English
			Spanish
			French
			Russian
			Chinese
			Hindustani
			Bengali
			Arabic
			Other
If you selected Other, what is your primary language?	Language information	Typed answer
What other languages do you speak?	Language information	Checkboxes	English
			Spanish
			French
			Russian
			Chinese
			Hindustani
			Bengali
			Arabic
			Other

A major error relating to separate options for Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, and other forms of Christianity was noted but it was too late to fix it. It was decided to keep the options for the Factbook, however, the option is planned to be merged into a singular "Christianity" option in the next census. Furthermore, changes including the renaming of "American Indian" to "Indigenous", the inclusion of the Portuguese, Japanese, and Punjabi languages, and the phasing out of "dropdown" questions are also planned for the next census.

Question	Change	Stated purpose	Question type	Options
What is your ethnicity?	Renamed "American Indian" to "Indigenous". Changed question type to checkboxes.	Ethnic information	Checkboxes	White/European
				Black/African
				East Asian
				South Asian
				Arabian/West Asian
				Latin American
				Indigenous
				Any other ethnic background
				Prefer not to say
What is your faith/religion?	Merged "Protestantism" and "Roman Catholic" with "Christianity (all denominations)". Added "Islam".	Religious information	Multiple choice	Christianity (all denominations)
				Hinduism
				Buddhism
				Sikhism
				Judaism
				Islam
				Atheism
				Agnosticism
				Unaffiliated
				Other
What is your first language?	Added Portuguese, Japanese, and Punjabi. Changed question type to multiple choice. Allowed "other" to be fillable.	Language information	Multiple choice	English
				Spanish
				French
				Russian
				Chinese
				Hindustani
				Bengali
				Arabic
				Portugese
				Japanese
				Punjabi
				Other
If you selected Other, what is your primary language?	Merged question with "What is your first language?"
What other language(s) do you speak? (optional)	Added Portuguese, Japanese, and Punjabi.	Language information	Checkboxes	English
				Spanish
				French
				Russian
				Chinese
				Hindustani
				Bengali
				Arabic
				Portugese
				Japanese
				Punjabi
				Other

Entities listed

As of February 2021, The CA Factbook contains information and data about 22 micronations, which can be divided into two groups:

Nations that participated in the December 2020/January 2021 CA Census

• Aenopia
• Atiera
• Australis
• Desert District
• Georgienstine
• Hausgurd
• Huai Siao
• Humberlea
• Moletopia
• Monmark
• Nemkhav
• New Athens
• Ponderosa Hills
• Qaflana
• Regelis
• Saspearian
• Scoria
• West Sayville
• Yu-Xia

Nations that did not participate in the December 2020/January 2021 CA Census

• Lundenwic
• Leo
• Wegmat
• Nova Tromsø

Factuality

Since the CA Factbook is sourced from the online-only CA Census, numbers may not reflect citizenship numbers. Leon Montan noted an error on 15 March 2021 relating to the subdivisions of Ponderosa Hills, conceding that it was Montan's fault.