2013 Hobart Summit

The 2013 Hobart Summit was an important meeting among the new nations of the world that had survived Pnesyviva. It took place on March 1, 2013. The summit led to the creation of the IDCA, and set international goals to re-organize the struggling world. All nations attending agreed to recognize each other, in turn creating the first true countries since the general fall of society.

Hobart was chosen as a venue because it was the largest city in the world still uninfected by disease.

Attendance
All nations that were largely stable and not infected with Pnesyviva sent their heads of state to the Hobart summit. The following nations were in attendance:
 * Canada - Represented by Stephen Harper
 * Greenland - Represented by Kuupik Kleist
 * Sakhalin - Represented by Alexander Khoroshavin
 * Iceland - Represented by Bjarni Benediktsson
 * Svalbard - Represented by Odd Olsen Ingerø
 * Tasmania (host nation) - Represented by Lara Giddings

Decisions
At the meeting, the primary goal of these nations became obvious: the recommencement of society. In order to do this, all six nations unanimously agreed to start up the IDCA, or International Disease Control Alliance. The subsequent discussions were what this alliance would do in order to rebuild society.

Tasmania primary showed interest in expanding the production of Pnesyviva vaccines to other nations. All members of the IDCA agreed to begin creating vaccines (Greenland and Svalbard paid for the creation of a factory in Canada, being unable to build them on their own territory). They agreed to use the vaccines to vaccinate their own populations, and then to begin using them to help out surviving communities.

Canada and Svalbard pushed forward the search of surviving communities. Sakhalin indirectly supported this, but showed most interest towards looking for communities that could have survived in Siberia, which had been largely uninfected. Sakhalin's proposal was struck down, and as Kuupik Kleist of Greenland described it, "the chances of a community that is extremely isolated [hence uninfected] to somehow survive at least one Siberian winter without any aid of any kind is too small for us to spend money and time betting on." The final conclusion was to send small military dispatches with soldiers and vaccines to see if cities given vaccines by Tasmania in 2011 and 2012 had survived. Canada and Tasmania agreed to send these search missions to the 2000-so communities protected.

Minor territorial claims were made by Tasmania during the summit, but these were ignored.

A final agreement was that should a survivor-community be found, it would be given means of stability, but would not be adopted by any nation of the IDCA. This was unanimously agreed upon, and was enacted to prevent potential imperialism.