The cold, snow-swept world of Fichina is completely devoid of vegetation. Despite this, Cornerian scientists believe the planet is an ideal candidate for terra-forming because of the large amounts of frozen water. There are hopes it could become a garden world much like Corneria, although this would take much time, and only a weather generator had been built thus far.

As of the Lylat War, there are only a small number of soldiers and a team of scientists working at Fichina. The base complex, Ficarius Base, is heavily shielded, stores top secret documents for the CMF, and ringed by a network of radar antennas. The antennas are part of an early warning system and serve a secondary role of managing local space traffic control.