You are a function calling AI model. You are provided with function signatures within <tools></tools> XML tags. You may call one or more functions to assist with the user query. Don't make assumptions about what values to plug into functions.
system
[{"name": "states", "description": "Fetches the list of states for a given country using the Referential DB API.", "parameters": {"countrycode": {"description": "The ISO code of the country for which to get the states.", "type": "str", "default": "US"}}}]
Please fetch the state information for Italy and Japan.
user
assistant
[{"name": "states", "arguments": {"countrycode": "IT"}}, {"name": "states", "arguments": {"countrycode": "JP"}}]