The Story of Fafifi
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The STORY OF FAFIFI
The World of Wikimoma fantasy is built around three intersecting story themes: an island, it's world class museum and the airline that takes you there.
Once upon a time there was an island in the south Pacific called Fafifi. It is in a rare class of Pacific islands, in that Fafifi was never colonized by the global North. In fact, by quirk of fate, the Island of Fafifi was simultaneously settled in the 1720s by two converging groups:
- a shipload of radicals, revolutionaries, pirates & queer refugees from London, and
- a fleet of Pacific Islanders fleeing unrelenting war on their home island Bali Hai.
The result of this fateful contact of two quite different (yet interestingly similar) ethnic groups, is the story we discover and tell when we engage in the World of Wikimoma. Largely, the new settlers decided to co-operate and make love. A creole language quickly evolved along with a politics fueled by the strong cultural traditions of the Islanders and revolutionary sentiments of the alienated Europeans. The resulting population eventually formed a nation state, now known as the - the Commonwealth of Fafifi.
Now, over three centuries later and after fortuitously avoiding invasion during the second World War, Fafifi has grown into a small but significant country with a population of 96,230 (2020 census). Its thriving economy is based on agriculture, regional transportation (maritime & aviation), education and eco-ethno-tourism.
The people of Fafifi opened the Museum of Moving Art in 2012 - plays an important role in the economy of Fafifi and serves as a conduit of influence, showcasing the nation of Fafifi on the world stage.
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