Fratanican Foreign Service

Fratanican Foreign Service

Organisation overview
Minister responsible	Sofia Marinelli, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Organisation executive	Xavier Valentin, Chief Diplomat of the Foreign Service
Website	foreignservice.gov.fn

The Fratanican Foreign Service, or FFS, is the diplomatic service of Fratanica, which represents Fratanican interests abroad and deals with foreign affairs. The service has around 10,000 employees, who work in both Viras and diplomatic missions throughout the world. Diplomatic mission staff and diplomats are both employed under this service.

Entry into the Fratanican Foreign Service is difficult, only taking a small percentage of highly-qualified and highly-experienced applicants. Applicants often come from prestigious universities, and have worked in the federal government for some time. Out of 16,300 applicants who applied in 2017, only 98 applicants were hired by the service, a mere 0.7% of applicants.

Diplomatic ranks

The diplomatic ranks of a mission are as follows:

• Ambassador
• Deputy head of mission
• Minister-counsellor
• Counsellor second class
• Counsellor first class
• First secretary
• Second secretary
• Third secretary
• Attaché
• Assistant attaché