#20.4 A Preliminary Standard for Value Unit Exchange Notes and Coins

This is a link to #20.3 the previous post in this series.

The IVES Standard

The International Value Exchange Society (IVES) would administer a standard numbering system for all accredited Independent Exchanges (IE's) in the Value Exchange Network (VEN). These local nodes of the network have all agreed to use the international standard Value Unit as their unit of trade. Each Value Unit Exchange Note bill will feature numbers on both sides that must match. There will be an array of numbers like this: 0-00-0000. The first number will represent a continent, largest to smallest, so Asia is 1, Africa 2, etc. The second two numbers represent the country code. Countries are numbered as they are alphabetically listed. The final four represent the number of IE's within each country. Each IE gets a number first come, first served. We've given enough space for up to 9,999 IE's represented in four digits within each country. We can't imagine there would be that many. Should that number ever need to grow beyond that astronomical estimate, we can switch to hexadecimal notation. One country, Russia, is given a number for their territories in Europe and another for their territories in Asia. Some small islands in the Caribbean and elsewhere are the direct possession of countries in Europe or elsewhere and therefore any IE's that would be established there would fall under the numbering for the home country.

Here are the codes for the continents and countries. You determine who will be first in your own country to open an IE there.

David Burton

1 ASIA (45 countries)

01 Afghanistan

02 Bahrain

03 Bangladesh

04 Bhutan

05 Brunei

06 Burma (Myanmar)

07 Cambodia

08 China

09 East Timor

10 India

11 Indonesia

12 Iran

13 Iraq

14 Israel

15 Japan

16 Jordan

17 Kazakhstan

18 Korea, North

19 Korea, South

20 Kuwait

21 Kyrgyzstan

22 Laos

23 Lebanon

24 Malaysia

25 Maldives

26 Mongolia

27 Nepal

28 Oman

29 Pakistan

30 Philippines

31 Qatar

32 Russian Federation

33 Saudi Arabia

34 Singapore

35 Sri Lanka

36 Syria

37 Tajikistan
38 Taiwan

39 Thailand

40 Turkey

41 Turkmenistan

42 United Arab Emirates

43 Uzbekistan

44 Vietnam

45 Yemen

[3/6/18: Should Korea unite, they would get 18 hence 1-18 would be 

2 AFRICA (54 countries)

01 Algeria

02 Angola

03 Benin

04 Botswana

05 Burkina

06 Burundi

07 Cameroon

08 Cape Verde

09 Central African Republic

10 Chad

11 Comoros

12 Congo

13 Congo, Democratic Republic of

14 Djibouti

15 Egypt

16 Equatorial Guinea

17 Eritrea

18 Ethiopia

19 Gabon

20 Gambia

21 Ghana

22 Guinea

23 Guinea-Bissau

24 Ivory Coast

25 Kenya

26 Lesotho

27 Liberia

28 Libya

29 Madagascar

30 Malawi

31 Mali

32 Mauritania

33 Mauritius

34 Morocco

35 Mozambique

36 Namibia

37 Niger

38 Nigeria

39 Rwanda

40 Sao Tome and Principe

41 Senegal

42 Seychelles

43 Sierra Leone

44 Somalia

45 South Africa

46 South Sudan

47 Sudan

48 Swaziland

49 Tanzania

50 Togo

51 Tunisia

52 Uganda

53 Zambia

54 Zimbabwe

3 NORTH AMERICA (23 countries)

01 Antigua and Barbuda

02 Bahamas

03 Barbados

04 Belize

05 Canada

06 Costa Rica

07 Cuba

08 Dominica

09 Dominican Republic

10 El Salvador

11 Grenada

12 Guatemala

13 Haiti

14 Honduras

15 Jamaica

16 Mexico

17 Nicaragua

18 Panama

19 Saint Kitts and Nevis

20 Saint Lucia

21 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

22 Trinidad and Tobago

23 United States

4 SOUTH AMERICA (12 countries)

01 Argentina

02 Bolivia

03 Brazil

04 Chile

05 Colombia

06 Ecuador

07 Guyana

08 Paraguay

09 Peru

10 Suriname

11 Uruguay

12 Venezuela

5 EUROPE (48 countries)

01 Albania

02 Andorra

03 Armenia

04 Austria

05 Azerbaijan

06 Belarus

07 Belgium

08 Bosnia and Herzegovina

09 Bulgaria

10 Croatia

11 Cyprus

12 Czechia

13 Denmark

14 Estonia

15 Finland

16 France

17 Georgia

18 Germany

19 Greece

20 Hungary

21 Iceland

22 Ireland

23 Italy

24 Latvia

25 Liechtenstein

26 Lithuania

27 Luxembourg

28 Macedonia

29 Malta

30 Moldova

31 Monaco

32 Montenegro

33 Netherlands

34 Norway

35 Poland

36 Portugal

37 Romania

38 Russian Federation

39 San Marino

40 Serbia

41 Slovakia

42 Slovenia

43 Spain

44 Sweden

45 Switzerland

46 Ukraine

47 United Kingdom

48 Vatican City

6 OCEANIA (14 countries)

01 Australia

02 Fiji

03 Kiribati

04 Marshall Islands

05 Micronesia

06 Nauru

07 New Zealand

08 Palau

09 Papua New Guinea

10 Samoa

11 Solomon Islands

12 Tonga

13 Tuvalu

14 Vanuatu