Frondic System

The Frondic system is a system of measurement based on the Frond introduced in Alsesia in the early 1800s.

Background
In the late 1700s, Czar WIP determined that the archaic systems of weights and measures in the country ought to be reformed. Then-President Alber Velirit championed a new system based on natural units, proposing to the Sobrut in 1793 that such a system be developed. The Sobrut formed a special commission for this purpose, which decided that the standard of length should be based on the size of the planet. They defined that length to be the 'frond' and its length as one hundred-millionth of the length of a quadrant on Arpeia's surface from the equator to the north pole. In 1797, after the length of that quadrant had been surveyed, the new system was launched in Alsesia.