[ETP] Eutopian Personnel Carousel (officeholders, Who's Who, character bios)
OOC: Players are welcome to post longer character biographies here.
OOC: Players are welcome to post longer character biographies here.
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Erik Svenson
Assets: $150 in First Farpoint Bank savings account
A two-bedroom home in Farpoint (inherited from his late father) valued at $11,000
Three rifles and assorted ammunition, and various mens clothing
Born 1982 in Farpoint, into a family of fishermen, Erik was a youth disinterested in his heritage until his family enrolled him on a Vinland Cruise, a voyage in a traditional Norse boat to America. Afterwards he enthusiastically joined his family in the most dangerous job in Eutopia, deep-sea fishing in a small family vessel. A number of dangerous incidents and overfishing of the grand banks and Eutopian waters by foreign factory-trawlers ruined the Svenson family, costing them their boat and prompting his distraught father to commit suicide (his mother had died when Erik was 14). Erik and his brothers Ulf and Harald joined in taking up arms in the standoff sparked by the "Lt Hanson affair" against the US base. It is likely at this time that he first met ecdentric political activist Ristard Deaghaidh, founder of the Commonality Party who came to Farpoint to spread his message and agenda. Erik like many of the dissatisfied was easily converted and remained close by the erratic, often elusive man.
After the bombing of the US Farpoint base and during the subsequent occupation of Farpoint Svenson followed Deaghaidh in organizing the resistance group La Resistance and participated in a large rally in Farpoint. However, he was not with the Commonality leader when he escaped Farpoint fearing being held as an 'enemy combatant' by the Americans via the Eco-Facist railroad. Wether there was some rift between the men or wether Erik simply distrusted the offered escape route is unclear.
Svenson next appeared in the company of Ristard Deaghaidh who, after being detained by the eco-facists, exiled to Cuba and returning to a pardon set up a short-liived comic book company before mysteriously disapearing again. Shortly after the emergance of CORE he surfaced again, in Svensons company, denouncing the group. This prompted the notorious Valhalla Shootout in which Deaghaidh and several members of the Farpoint Citizens Action Comittee and Farpoint PD were killed, but the terrorists wiped out.
Following the death of Deaghiadh, the FCAC was leaderless, with Fapoint Mayor Thorsbeard captured and Police Chief Hightower wounded. Svenson emerged as a leader largely because of his determination and energy rather than any overt athourity. He is known to have taken part in several battles against CORE, including one in which both his brothers were killed.
His ascendancy has singled him out as a likely leader of the Commonality Party. He supported secession and joining a new federal state but has previously said he would preferr a united, decentralized Eutopia, based on a league of equal, autonomous communities with power residing on a local level- precisely what Deaghaidh had preached in Farpoint before so much had happened.
Erik Svenson
Assets: $150 in First Farpoint Bank savings account
A two-bedroom home in Farpoint (inherited from his late father) valued at $11,000
Three rifles and assorted ammunition, and various mens clothing
Born 1982 in Farpoint, into a family of fishermen, Erik was a youth disinterested in his heritage until his family enrolled him on a Vinland Cruise, a voyage in a traditional Norse boat to America. Afterwards he enthusiastically joined his family in the most dangerous job in Eutopia, deep-sea fishing in a small family vessel. A number of dangerous incidents and overfishing of the grand banks and Eutopian waters by foreign factory-trawlers ruined the Svenson family, costing them their boat and prompting his distraught father to commit suicide (his mother had died when Erik was 14). Erik and his brothers Ulf and Harald joined in taking up arms in the standoff sparked by the "Lt Hanson affair" against the US base. It is likely at this time that he first met ecdentric political activist Ristard Deaghaidh, founder of the Commonality Party who came to Farpoint to spread his message and agenda. Erik like many of the dissatisfied was easily converted and remained close by the erratic, often elusive man.
After the bombing of the US Farpoint base and during the subsequent occupation of Farpoint Svenson followed Deaghaidh in organizing the resistance group La Resistance and participated in a large rally in Farpoint. However, he was not with the Commonality leader when he escaped Farpoint fearing being held as an 'enemy combatant' by the Americans via the Eco-Facist railroad. Wether there was some rift between the men or wether Erik simply distrusted the offered escape route is unclear.
Svenson next appeared in the company of Ristard Deaghaidh who, after being detained by the eco-facists, exiled to Cuba and returning to a pardon set up a short-liived comic book company before mysteriously disapearing again. Shortly after the emergance of CORE he surfaced again, in Svensons company, denouncing the group. This prompted the notorious Valhalla Shootout in which Deaghaidh and several members of the Farpoint Citizens Action Comittee and Farpoint PD were killed, but the terrorists wiped out.
Following the death of Deaghiadh, the FCAC was leaderless, with Fapoint Mayor Thorsbeard captured and Police Chief Hightower wounded. Svenson emerged as a leader largely because of his determination and energy rather than any overt athourity. He is known to have taken part in several battles against CORE, including one in which both his brothers were killed.
His ascendancy has singled him out as a likely leader of the Commonality Party. He supported secession and joining a new federal state but has previously said he would preferr a united, decentralized Eutopia, based on a league of equal, autonomous communities with power residing on a local level- precisely what Deaghaidh had preached in Farpoint before so much had happened.
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Theodore Marmaduke Vincent St. James
The rather unfortunately named TMV* is 12th Viscount of Dunwich, and proud of it. He resides at Pentecost Hall, the family mansion of the St. Jameses in downtown Dunwich - partly because he likes the mansion itself, partly because it's tradition, and partly because breaking with that tradition would require an exercise of the imagination.
Pentecost Hall, the St. James residence
St. James was educated at St. Timothy and Titus College, Witney University. As coincidence would have it, the college was built by the 5th Viscount of Dunwich; equally coincidentally, all St. Jameses since then have attended T&T College and contributed to it in various ways afterwards. This, of course, has nothing to do with TMV's very satisfactory performance at T&T - although it *is*, admittedly, quite inspiring to study in a library named after your great-grandfather. For your instructors as well.
Apart from actively pursuing an interest in landscaping (= occasionally chatting with the gardener about leafs and other such nature stuff), TMV races horses. Or, more accurately, he pays other people to race horses for him. This is a splendid way to pass the time between social gatherings of Eutopia's upper crust. Not that he actually *likes* horses or knows anything about them - it's just that the 10th Viscount decided owning a stable of racehorses is the done thing, and that's that. As of this moment, TMV's favourite among his horses is "Shades of Grey," since he was reliably informed earlier in the morning that the horse in question recently won some race or other. Good effort, that horse; wish *some* people around here had that kind of grit. *significant look across the breakfast table at unspecified St. James family member*
TMV being told of Shades of Grey's victory over morning tea,
clearly giving this news his undivided attention
But, tired of just being famously rich, St. James has lately voiced the opinion that Eutopian politics is in dire need of some good (i.e., conservative) sense - which, needless to say, he feels able to provide in abundance. Those who know him well may beg to differ, but what do they know? Anyhow, he has decided this is the time for him to become involved in the rough and tumble of Eutopian politics. It's either that, or buying a rugby team.
Ideologically, TMV is a conservative Monarchist (albeit not a supporter of Maria). He combines a deeply ingrained belief in a naturally ordained social hierarchy with a sense of obligation towards the lower classes of society. St. James used to be a staunch Anglo centralist but has become a bit more open to Latin demands and concerns in recent years, due to the influence of his dear wife, Marguerite.
Marguerite St. James, TMV's beloved wife (#3)
Speaking of wives, St. James professes undying love to his third wife, Marguerite Celeste Heloise (aka Maggy). He professed undying love to wives number 1 and 2 also. Each union has produced one offspring, with whom TMV is casually acquainted by stint of the daily morning tea: Charles Mycroft Alexander** (next in line; good boy, bit sullen sometimes; studies business at T&T), Theobald Montagu Jeremiah (a big fan of Audrey Hepburn's, which sporadically worries TMV), and Penelope Adelaide Silvana (a simply adorable child, if the nannies are to be believed).
* Yes, he does hate his parents (in a genteel, suppressed sort of way, naturally).
** If *he* had to suffer, by golly so will his children. It builds character.
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Michael Marine
Born in eastern Europe under different name, shortly before fall of communistic regimes in a lower class family, he always dreamed that he will leave his country one day and become rich somewhere abroad, graduated from economy and shortly after that he started to work as accountant of several companies, seeing corruption everywhere he didn't hesitated to steal money from these companies, unfortunately for him police noticed his suspicious activities and so he left his home in a hurry, just with enough money to get to Eutopia.
Though he arrived like a poor immigrant, he quickly made his way up starting as an accountant for the city of Buen Puerto, thanks to mayor Felix Andaluza he was able to again steal money, this time with help of mayor.
Shortly after his arrival to Buen Puerto he joined liberal monarchistic party of RPE thanks to which he becomed member of national assembly and started his own newspaper "Eutopian Daily Record" which never becamed successful. He also expressed sympathies for problem of Latino citizens, but as always he did so only in public, since in records from cabinet meeting say that he was strictly opposing "balkanization" of Eutopia.
All together Marine is very selfish and if he starts for example charity organization, he does so only to gain some reputation.
The Story of John Black
The man
John Black, known to legions of fans world-wide as "Johnny Black", is a popular semi-retired entertainer, businessman, and activist. He made his name through music, he made his money through business, and uses both in his fight for "the little guy".
John was a conscript and performed manual labor while trying to break into the music industry. In his youth, he suffered additictions to drugs and alcohol and was jailed for a brief period for acts of fighting, vandalism, and public drunkeness.
He life was turned around by a fellow performer (his later wife), and he experienced a religious conversion that reformed his wild and reckless ways.
John is sixty years old and keeps a permanent residence in St. Brendandstown, though he owns a vacation property in Rochefort Beach.
He is married to the love of his life, May, and has six adult children, two from a previous marriage.
The Music
Johnny Black was a popular folk singer (of the "Country" genre, although he crossed over into "Rock & Roll") who made a major contribution to the music scene in the 1960's & 1970's, and even had a short-lived television variety show. His music fell out of favor with the recording industry by the late 1970's and although considered "a classic", his music disappeared from the radio. In the late 1990's he began a comeback in the new "Alt.Country" genre, and has been successful in promoting emerging young artists that fuse traditional country and blue-grass music with today's modern music.
Though he rarely performs live anymore, he has, every few years, released a new collection.
Businesses
John Black learned from his early mistakes and became a savvy manager and businessman, eventually purchasing the rights to all of his past music. He owns a small record label (production company), ownership in a number of radio stations, a sports team, and several entertainment establishments (restaurants and pubs).
Politics
Due to his experiences in jail, Black has been a noted advocate for the rights of the accused and those behind bars. He has donated his time and money for drug rehabilitation efforts. He has also been an advocate for veterans issues and the rights of the Topa, bringing the problems suffered by these native people to the public attention for the first time in the 1970's through several moving ballads.
Black has been less of a party-activist and more of a cause-related activist, and has had scathing criticism of the left and right over policies he felt were harmful to "the working people".
The recent near collapse of Eutopia has persuaded him that it is perhaps time to become more politically active.
Amric Al”Aeshir
Born of working class parents in the city of South Bend, Indiana in the United States he was an excellent student and played a variety of sports in his youth. His love of reading translated into an extremely lucrative career as a writer. Having been dubbed the Isaac Asimov of his generation, Amric has penned hundreds of books since the age of 20. But his dedication to his writing caused his marriage to fail.
He left the United States to come to Eutopia to get a fresh start. Leaving his former wife and three children behind. Finding a nation that had no environmental laws, it awoke his sense of environmental activism. He founded the Eutopian Society for the Environment and raised the awareness for the environment by garnering support from numerous political luminaries who joined the ESE in spirit, if not always in principle.
He joined the government as an advisor to Sebastian Fitzpatrick, MHES, on the environment. When Fitzpatrick vanished, then President O’Floinn appointed him as MHES. It was at this time that he decided to join the Rally for Democracy party as they offered the best platform for the environment.
Three times Amric was elected to office as a Member of the National Assembly, but only actually served slightly longer than one term in office. Preferring to allow others the opportunity to serve he turned over his seat on two occasions. His time in the MHES was very rewarding, although at time exhausting as he staggered from crisis to crisis trying to patch up a ministry that had suffered many years of neglect and turned it into a powerful and influential ministry that had a reach far longer than any previous office holders had ever suspected.
It was in the Sixth term of Eutopia that Amric realized that the best way to improve the environment was to show by example. So he started his own company, Amric Al’Aeshir Holdings. Which now is a multi company corporation that includes clean energy production, recycling, a media outlet, recycled products and a showcase for how an environmentally responsible company can still make money while being friendly to the planet we all have to live on.
Due to his eldest son’s ill health, Amric gave up his position as MHES and the newly won office of Vice President, tendering his resignation to President Glasser. He returned to the United States where his son died on the surgical table during a radical surgical experiment in an attempt to save the boy’s life from insidious cancer.
The Hurricanes that pounded his beloved nation caused Amric to return to his nation with much needed medical supplies and many other things to help those hardest hit recover. He even sent aid to Bermuda which had also been hard hit.
He has an estate in St. Brendanstown and a townhouse in Eutopia City. He spends most of his time in Eutopia City running his business empire that is based out of the AAH Building. Friends with many of the political figures of the past republic, he really has no true enemies as although his political acumen may not be the greatest, his passion and honesty have won him the respect of his peers and the public.
Born of working class parents in the city of South Bend, Indiana in the United States he was an excellent student and played a variety of sports in his youth. His love of reading translated into an extremely lucrative career as a writer. Having been dubbed the Isaac Asimov of his generation, Amric has penned hundreds of books since the age of 20. But his dedication to his writing caused his marriage to fail.
He left the United States to come to Eutopia to get a fresh start. Leaving his former wife and three children behind. Finding a nation that had no environmental laws, it awoke his sense of environmental activism. He founded the Eutopian Society for the Environment and raised the awareness for the environment by garnering support from numerous political luminaries who joined the ESE in spirit, if not always in principle.
He joined the government as an advisor to Sebastian Fitzpatrick, MHES, on the environment. When Fitzpatrick vanished, then President O’Floinn appointed him as MHES. It was at this time that he decided to join the Rally for Democracy party as they offered the best platform for the environment.
Three times Amric was elected to office as a Member of the National Assembly, but only actually served slightly longer than one term in office. Preferring to allow others the opportunity to serve he turned over his seat on two occasions. His time in the MHES was very rewarding, although at time exhausting as he staggered from crisis to crisis trying to patch up a ministry that had suffered many years of neglect and turned it into a powerful and influential ministry that had a reach far longer than any previous office holders had ever suspected.
It was in the Sixth term of Eutopia that Amric realized that the best way to improve the environment was to show by example. So he started his own company, Amric Al’Aeshir Holdings. Which now is a multi company corporation that includes clean energy production, recycling, a media outlet, recycled products and a showcase for how an environmentally responsible company can still make money while being friendly to the planet we all have to live on.
Due to his eldest son’s ill health, Amric gave up his position as MHES and the newly won office of Vice President, tendering his resignation to President Glasser. He returned to the United States where his son died on the surgical table during a radical surgical experiment in an attempt to save the boy’s life from insidious cancer.
The Hurricanes that pounded his beloved nation caused Amric to return to his nation with much needed medical supplies and many other things to help those hardest hit recover. He even sent aid to Bermuda which had also been hard hit.
He has an estate in St. Brendanstown and a townhouse in Eutopia City. He spends most of his time in Eutopia City running his business empire that is based out of the AAH Building. Friends with many of the political figures of the past republic, he really has no true enemies as although his political acumen may not be the greatest, his passion and honesty have won him the respect of his peers and the public.
A Lawyer's Tale: The Story of Lucien Napier
Lucien Napier was born to an undistinguished upper-middle class home in New Lancaster. His father was a banker, his mother a housewife, and his early life a rather boring blur. After a mediocre stint at New Lancaster City University as a history major, he took the path of all failed liberal arts majors - law school.
Due largely to excellent board scores, he managed to gain admission to King's College in Kirby for his legal education. The law quickly became his first love, and he spent long hours in the law library, reading cases and writing briefs. It was there he met his second life, and the woman who was to become his wife, Amanda de la Croix. They married the day after they both passed the Eutopian bar.
Napier spent his first years as an attorney in the Public Defender's Office in New Lancaster, defending those unable to hire their own counsel. For fifty dollars an hour, he stood before juries and spoke for the dregs of society: drug dealers, murderers, child abusers, and their ilk. He was remarkable successful, largely due to a sharp mind and equally sharp wit. His wife started work as counsel for the Eutopian Humane Society, a position she kept until her death at her desk due to a cerebral hemorrhage five years ago.
Napier's performance as a public defender gained him both fame and notoriety in the New Lancaster legal world, and some brief national attention (with attendant death threats) after he managed to get the case against a triple-axe murderer thrown out over police misconduct. He finally decided to leave public service and joined one of the more prestigious firms in New Lancaster. If nothing else, this improved the quality of his clients.
Napier made junior partner in five year, partner in eight, and started his own firm two years later. Napier and Associates, L.L.P., has become one of the largest law firms on the island, if not the largest, and through a series of high profile clients, Lucien Napier became a very wealthy man indeed. The firm now pulls in millions of ducats a year from retainer fees alone.
Napier had made several high profile purchases in the past few years, including his yacht (and frequent residence), an eighty-foot masterpiece named (in grim jest) Dudley and Stephans, the New Lancaster Imperials football team, the Spaulding Spikes soccer club, several world-class racehorses, and a large villa on the sea in Nouvelle Anjou. He also financed the construction of the seventy-story Imperial Building in New Lancaster, which houses the home office of Napier and Associates and his penthouse suite on the top floor. Napier is also a well-known supporter of the arts and charities, especially the Humane Society, in memory of his wife. The Amanda Napier Memorial Animal Shelter and Hospital in New Lancaster is one of the finest such facilities in the world.
Napier is of an average height and in very good shape, due to frequent workouts and fencing sessions with his staff. His hair is blond, but running toward silver at the sides. His suits are perfect, his shoes always shined. He is not known to have any close personal friends, and has been somewhat withdrawn, deep into his work, since the death of his beloved wife. The destruction wrought by the hurricanes and the Gall administration has cracked that shell. He has made his fortune and made his mark on the law; the time has come to make his mark on the country, to give back to Eutopia what it gave to him, to try to make it a better place.
Lucien Napier died in an aircraft accident shortly after being appointed Ambassador to the United States.
Current Assets (all numbers approximated)
Liquid (cash, bank accounts, convertible notes, etc.): Ð11,000,000
Non-Liquid
Ownership of Napier and Associates: Ð200,000,000
Majority interest in New Lancaster Imperials: Ð150,000,000 (based (loosely) on value of Arizona Cardinals)
Majority interest in Spaulding Spikes: Ð20,000,000 (based (loosely) on value of D.C. United)
Ownership of Imperial Building: Ð350,000,000 (based (loosely) on value of Petronas Towers)
Yacht: Ð7,500,000
Villa: Ð4,500,000
Assorted artworks: Ð15,000,000
Lucien Napier was born to an undistinguished upper-middle class home in New Lancaster. His father was a banker, his mother a housewife, and his early life a rather boring blur. After a mediocre stint at New Lancaster City University as a history major, he took the path of all failed liberal arts majors - law school.
Due largely to excellent board scores, he managed to gain admission to King's College in Kirby for his legal education. The law quickly became his first love, and he spent long hours in the law library, reading cases and writing briefs. It was there he met his second life, and the woman who was to become his wife, Amanda de la Croix. They married the day after they both passed the Eutopian bar.
Napier spent his first years as an attorney in the Public Defender's Office in New Lancaster, defending those unable to hire their own counsel. For fifty dollars an hour, he stood before juries and spoke for the dregs of society: drug dealers, murderers, child abusers, and their ilk. He was remarkable successful, largely due to a sharp mind and equally sharp wit. His wife started work as counsel for the Eutopian Humane Society, a position she kept until her death at her desk due to a cerebral hemorrhage five years ago.
Napier's performance as a public defender gained him both fame and notoriety in the New Lancaster legal world, and some brief national attention (with attendant death threats) after he managed to get the case against a triple-axe murderer thrown out over police misconduct. He finally decided to leave public service and joined one of the more prestigious firms in New Lancaster. If nothing else, this improved the quality of his clients.
Napier made junior partner in five year, partner in eight, and started his own firm two years later. Napier and Associates, L.L.P., has become one of the largest law firms on the island, if not the largest, and through a series of high profile clients, Lucien Napier became a very wealthy man indeed. The firm now pulls in millions of ducats a year from retainer fees alone.
Napier had made several high profile purchases in the past few years, including his yacht (and frequent residence), an eighty-foot masterpiece named (in grim jest) Dudley and Stephans, the New Lancaster Imperials football team, the Spaulding Spikes soccer club, several world-class racehorses, and a large villa on the sea in Nouvelle Anjou. He also financed the construction of the seventy-story Imperial Building in New Lancaster, which houses the home office of Napier and Associates and his penthouse suite on the top floor. Napier is also a well-known supporter of the arts and charities, especially the Humane Society, in memory of his wife. The Amanda Napier Memorial Animal Shelter and Hospital in New Lancaster is one of the finest such facilities in the world.
Napier is of an average height and in very good shape, due to frequent workouts and fencing sessions with his staff. His hair is blond, but running toward silver at the sides. His suits are perfect, his shoes always shined. He is not known to have any close personal friends, and has been somewhat withdrawn, deep into his work, since the death of his beloved wife. The destruction wrought by the hurricanes and the Gall administration has cracked that shell. He has made his fortune and made his mark on the law; the time has come to make his mark on the country, to give back to Eutopia what it gave to him, to try to make it a better place.
Lucien Napier died in an aircraft accident shortly after being appointed Ambassador to the United States.
Current Assets (all numbers approximated)
Liquid (cash, bank accounts, convertible notes, etc.): Ð11,000,000
Non-Liquid
Ownership of Napier and Associates: Ð200,000,000
Majority interest in New Lancaster Imperials: Ð150,000,000 (based (loosely) on value of Arizona Cardinals)
Majority interest in Spaulding Spikes: Ð20,000,000 (based (loosely) on value of D.C. United)
Ownership of Imperial Building: Ð350,000,000 (based (loosely) on value of Petronas Towers)
Yacht: Ð7,500,000
Villa: Ð4,500,000
Assorted artworks: Ð15,000,000
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Alexi Gonzov
Born in Rostov in the Former USSR in 1973, Alexi was born into a family of ardent Mensheviks that had fought against the Bolshevik rule for 50 Years. He became a Political Activist at the Age of eight when he organized a pupil Strike in response to extra Maths.
He was 18 when the USSR broke up, and formed a Buissness due to the opening of the Private Sector, and, within 10 Years, твердый торговый центр (or Fast Mart) was the biggest Supermarket in Russia. He Expanded into Resturants, with собака обедающий (Dog Diner) and then into Chemical buissness with русский химический (Russian Chemical).
Today, Gonzov is perhaps the Second Richest Man in Eutopia, estimated to be worth $10 Billion.
Born in Rostov in the Former USSR in 1973, Alexi was born into a family of ardent Mensheviks that had fought against the Bolshevik rule for 50 Years. He became a Political Activist at the Age of eight when he organized a pupil Strike in response to extra Maths.
He was 18 when the USSR broke up, and formed a Buissness due to the opening of the Private Sector, and, within 10 Years, твердый торговый центр (or Fast Mart) was the biggest Supermarket in Russia. He Expanded into Resturants, with собака обедающий (Dog Diner) and then into Chemical buissness with русский химический (Russian Chemical).
Today, Gonzov is perhaps the Second Richest Man in Eutopia, estimated to be worth $10 Billion.
Alexis Keller's Biography.
Name: Alexis Maria Teresa Keller
Born: March 1, 1972 in Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany
Length: 1.74 m. (5' 7")
Weight: 56 kg. (124 lb)
Hair: half long, dark brown with red highlights
Eyes: green
Alexis' parents, Anne and Siegfried Keller, owned a supermarket in the town of Lüneburg, a bit south of Hamburg. Alexis did very well on school on school, but (as a result), she didn't have many friends and no boyfriend until she started studying at the University of Hamburg. She first started studying Medicines, but discovered it was not her cup of tea after two years, and she switched to Chemistry instead. She quickly catched on, and graduated after four years, with flying colours.
After that, she moved in with her boyfriend Felix, and they moved to Cologne, where Felix got a job for the ARD (public television), while Alexis continued studying at Cologne University to get her doctorate. It cost her pain and trouble (eventually she and Felix broke up and Alexis had to make a living with her lousy student-assistant wage), but she managed to get her grade in 2001.
She got a job soon enough, once again in Hamburg, at a large chemistry company. It was there that she got in touch with a large environmental movement, that demonstrated against the company's dumping of dioxides into the North Sea. She met a friend from the University, who brought her into the green movement. She quit the job, and accepted a job at the University of Hamburg, at the Chemistry division where she had studied six years before.
At the University laboratory she was able to combine her interest for chemistry with the nature movement, as she started researching the applications of new kinds of nature-friendly, non-toxic plastics. After two years, however, she decided to broaden her interest by migrating to Eutopia, where she applied to a job at the Eutopian Technological Institute in Neuwestbaden, as a researcher at the extensive laboratories, and as a teacher in chemistry. She founded a foundation within the physics and chemisty, called the RRDD, the Renewable Resources Development Division, who had tasked itself to develop renewable resources.
In search for partners and funding, Alexis met Amric al'Aeshir, who offered to fund her research and cooperate with his own environmental research. A bit later, Al'Aeshir was elected president of Eutopia, and as he saw potencial in Alexis as his deputy of environment at the Ministery of Environment and Social Affairs (MESA). Alexis had joined Josephus Sergei's Eutopian Socialist Alliance (ESA) by that time, and had slowly worked herself to the party top. Throughout the IX'th tern, Alexis spend most time writing a draft for Eutopia's first environmental laws, but was unable to finish them in that term.
Term IX ended with the term X elections, which had the ESA as the major victor. The elected president, mister Sergei, knew that Alexis Keller had great experience within the MESA, and as she was number 3 on ESA's party list, and there was no true alternative, Alexis would be elected as minister of MESA for term X.
Alexis now lives in a small apartment in downtown Neuwestbaden with her two cats, Manni and Lola (named after characters from her favourite film; 'Lola Rennt') and a goldfish called Yellow. Alexis likes tea, cats, reading, travelling, sailing, going out with colleagues, cycling and hiking. She dislikes coffee, dogs, hangovers, smoking, rush-hour (and cars), greedy people and annoying mail office clerks. She also hates people who go sit in the pathway in the bus, or who lay their bag on the other chair, so that nobody can sit next to them.
Name: Alexis Maria Teresa Keller
Born: March 1, 1972 in Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany
Length: 1.74 m. (5' 7")
Weight: 56 kg. (124 lb)
Hair: half long, dark brown with red highlights
Eyes: green
Alexis' parents, Anne and Siegfried Keller, owned a supermarket in the town of Lüneburg, a bit south of Hamburg. Alexis did very well on school on school, but (as a result), she didn't have many friends and no boyfriend until she started studying at the University of Hamburg. She first started studying Medicines, but discovered it was not her cup of tea after two years, and she switched to Chemistry instead. She quickly catched on, and graduated after four years, with flying colours.
After that, she moved in with her boyfriend Felix, and they moved to Cologne, where Felix got a job for the ARD (public television), while Alexis continued studying at Cologne University to get her doctorate. It cost her pain and trouble (eventually she and Felix broke up and Alexis had to make a living with her lousy student-assistant wage), but she managed to get her grade in 2001.
She got a job soon enough, once again in Hamburg, at a large chemistry company. It was there that she got in touch with a large environmental movement, that demonstrated against the company's dumping of dioxides into the North Sea. She met a friend from the University, who brought her into the green movement. She quit the job, and accepted a job at the University of Hamburg, at the Chemistry division where she had studied six years before.
At the University laboratory she was able to combine her interest for chemistry with the nature movement, as she started researching the applications of new kinds of nature-friendly, non-toxic plastics. After two years, however, she decided to broaden her interest by migrating to Eutopia, where she applied to a job at the Eutopian Technological Institute in Neuwestbaden, as a researcher at the extensive laboratories, and as a teacher in chemistry. She founded a foundation within the physics and chemisty, called the RRDD, the Renewable Resources Development Division, who had tasked itself to develop renewable resources.
In search for partners and funding, Alexis met Amric al'Aeshir, who offered to fund her research and cooperate with his own environmental research. A bit later, Al'Aeshir was elected president of Eutopia, and as he saw potencial in Alexis as his deputy of environment at the Ministery of Environment and Social Affairs (MESA). Alexis had joined Josephus Sergei's Eutopian Socialist Alliance (ESA) by that time, and had slowly worked herself to the party top. Throughout the IX'th tern, Alexis spend most time writing a draft for Eutopia's first environmental laws, but was unable to finish them in that term.
Term IX ended with the term X elections, which had the ESA as the major victor. The elected president, mister Sergei, knew that Alexis Keller had great experience within the MESA, and as she was number 3 on ESA's party list, and there was no true alternative, Alexis would be elected as minister of MESA for term X.
Alexis now lives in a small apartment in downtown Neuwestbaden with her two cats, Manni and Lola (named after characters from her favourite film; 'Lola Rennt') and a goldfish called Yellow. Alexis likes tea, cats, reading, travelling, sailing, going out with colleagues, cycling and hiking. She dislikes coffee, dogs, hangovers, smoking, rush-hour (and cars), greedy people and annoying mail office clerks. She also hates people who go sit in the pathway in the bus, or who lay their bag on the other chair, so that nobody can sit next to them.
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Description: Robert Austri was born in Moscow, USSR, in 1973. According to teachers and assosiates, he was arguementative, arrogant at times, and deceptive, and kept up a fascade of being laid back and goofy at the same time. He had weak grades in some classes and excellent grades in others. (Attributed to 'a lack of motivation'.) Austri dropped out of high school, and using saved money from various commercial schemes, attended colledge for less that six months. He then joined the Soviet military. When the USSR broke up, he fled the country (To this day, Austri apparently hates Russia.) and traveled western Europe before settling in the U.S. Around this time he wrote some books on military history. After satying in the U.S. for over ten years, he claimed Russian assasins attempted to kill him, and once again fled, this time to Eutopia.
Activities in Term 9
Austri joined up with the conservative United Eutopian Front which ran an unsuccesful campaign in the Term 9 elections. He then acted as Eutopian Ambassador to Japan for the rest of the term. During this time, he became deputy leader of the UEF after the death of Lucien Napier.
Term 10
The UEF broke up before the Term 10 elections, and Austri joined the Party for Progress. When J.L. Sergei (ESA) won the election, Austri was appointed Vice President and MDIS. Austri is now in an odd position, as a known militarist/conservative who may be forced to put budget cuts on the military. Austri's caution when dealing with Eutopia's neighbors has been seen as paranoia and warmongering, which entertains Austri to no end.
- Name: Robert Austri (Believed to be assumed name.)
- Date of Birth: Oct. 7th, 1973 (Again, believed to be falsified.)
- Place of Birth:: Unknown (Claims to have been born in Moscow, but unconfirmed.)
- Criminal Record: Believed to be none.
- Reason for surveilance: 'Bob Austri' was matched to a description of a former Russian military officer who was part of a attempted coup in 1992. The unnamed officer was missing, presumed dead after the incident, but unlike other conspirators, his death was not confirmed.
Description: Robert Austri was born in Moscow, USSR, in 1973. According to teachers and assosiates, he was arguementative, arrogant at times, and deceptive, and kept up a fascade of being laid back and goofy at the same time. He had weak grades in some classes and excellent grades in others. (Attributed to 'a lack of motivation'.) Austri dropped out of high school, and using saved money from various commercial schemes, attended colledge for less that six months. He then joined the Soviet military. When the USSR broke up, he fled the country (To this day, Austri apparently hates Russia.) and traveled western Europe before settling in the U.S. Around this time he wrote some books on military history. After satying in the U.S. for over ten years, he claimed Russian assasins attempted to kill him, and once again fled, this time to Eutopia.
Activities in Term 9
Austri joined up with the conservative United Eutopian Front which ran an unsuccesful campaign in the Term 9 elections. He then acted as Eutopian Ambassador to Japan for the rest of the term. During this time, he became deputy leader of the UEF after the death of Lucien Napier.
Term 10
The UEF broke up before the Term 10 elections, and Austri joined the Party for Progress. When J.L. Sergei (ESA) won the election, Austri was appointed Vice President and MDIS. Austri is now in an odd position, as a known militarist/conservative who may be forced to put budget cuts on the military. Austri's caution when dealing with Eutopia's neighbors has been seen as paranoia and warmongering, which entertains Austri to no end.
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Konstantin Vilms:
Vilms was born as the son of a mismatched pair of Eutopian exiles. His father was an American ex-patriot who fled the draft. He moved to Eutopia from Canada and got a job at a factory in New Lancaster. Here he met his future wife Kadri Vilms, an Estonian immigrant whose family fled to Scandinavia and then Eutopia after World War Two. Two years after Vilms' birth, his parents divorced and his father returned to America.
Vilms grew up a poor son of a low-wage single mother. Taking to the streets, Vilms got involved in rather disrespectable gangs. However, after almost loosing his life, Vilms left the gang seen, and discovered politics, he worked for a Socialist candidate for mayor of New Lancaster for a few years. At 18 he joined the military to fulfill his years of conscription, much to his own anger. During his two years in the military, Vilms socialism slowly faded, but he took on the belief in a monarchy.
With money saved during his military career, and with substantial influence from his politician friends, Vilms was able to get into Creighton College in St. Brendanstown. After majoring in Journalism and Politics, Vilms joined the Centralistic Royalistic Party of Eutopia. He worked as a journalist for the Royalist before becoming an active member of the party. Vilms built up a stance, blasting Socialists and the CPR, effectively isolating himself from his former friends. Vilms became active in intra-party politics and met his first success in changing the name of the party to the Centre Royal Party.
Vilms worked his way up through the party and succeeded in filling a vacant seat in the legislature. He argued for his party's stance in issues such as Monarchy and education, but very often found himself voting against his party's own bills. His first success on a national level was the passage of bills regarding casinos in airports. Vilms then went and worked under two ministers. Vilms was, for a short time, an assistant to MECT Vasco IKK, who was a minister, before becoming deputy MILE under Jacob Lundgren.
As deputy, Vilms took on minor tasks, before arriving in Farpoint in time to defuse a nearly deadly confrontation between Rebecca Cook (a fellow CRE member) and a group of right-wing revolutionaries. Vilms became Interim MILE after Lundgren resigned, and remained MILE during the succession crisis of that time. Vilms remained MILE under Vasco IKK. It was under his orders that MILE agents attempted to capture the military leaders responsible for the kidnapping of the President. Vilms argued for the removal of the military from the W.E.T. Vilms also called on his fellow monarchists to support Charles Morgan, a nonpartisan candidate, for President.
Under President Talbott, Vilms became the first major politician to officially visit the W.E.T. after the American attack. It was also during this time that Vilms left the inactive CRE to for the RPE, the Royal Party of Eutopia. After the death of VP Jools, Talbott appointed Vilms his Vice President, and he remained MILE. Vilms ran on Talbott's ticket after an argument with his former compatriot Morgan. However, Talbott lost to Glasser. Vilms was, much to his surprise, asked to take up the MTEF position in the cabinet, which he did. Vilms came under fire for not reacting to the railway problems soon enough. As MTEF Vilms primarily concerned himself with making the W.E.T. a province, and he pushed bills giving the cabinet the green light in this process.
After Glasser's presidency, Vilms took some time out of politics and went to visit his father in New York. He was here when the hurricanes struck Eutopia. While in New York, he received a great deal of information concerning the tension Eutopia was under, and so he went to speak to a UN committee on Eutopia headed by the English. After speaking to the committee, Vilms returned to Eutopia to find it split. Vilms, who is the chairman of the Eutopian Royal Organization and a leading member of the Royal Guard Society still wishes to put a monarch on the throne, but has yet to refound the Royal Party of Eutopia.
Vilms was approached in the effort to put experienced politicians back into office, to restabilize the country. He accepted, putting aside his plans to re-establish a monarchy party in order to help the country. After discussion, Vilms was named Amric Al'Aeshir's vice presidential candidate. When the Unity Party won the election, Vilms was named VP and MIDS. As minister, Vilms began plans for rail-way reconstruction. However, lack of certain funds made the plans only plans. Vilms next act would be an official visit to neighboring Tilipia. Here he gave a speech to the Royal Foundation on the royalist cause. However, while visiting the country, a mistimed terrorist attack took his life.
Vilms was born as the son of a mismatched pair of Eutopian exiles. His father was an American ex-patriot who fled the draft. He moved to Eutopia from Canada and got a job at a factory in New Lancaster. Here he met his future wife Kadri Vilms, an Estonian immigrant whose family fled to Scandinavia and then Eutopia after World War Two. Two years after Vilms' birth, his parents divorced and his father returned to America.
Vilms grew up a poor son of a low-wage single mother. Taking to the streets, Vilms got involved in rather disrespectable gangs. However, after almost loosing his life, Vilms left the gang seen, and discovered politics, he worked for a Socialist candidate for mayor of New Lancaster for a few years. At 18 he joined the military to fulfill his years of conscription, much to his own anger. During his two years in the military, Vilms socialism slowly faded, but he took on the belief in a monarchy.
With money saved during his military career, and with substantial influence from his politician friends, Vilms was able to get into Creighton College in St. Brendanstown. After majoring in Journalism and Politics, Vilms joined the Centralistic Royalistic Party of Eutopia. He worked as a journalist for the Royalist before becoming an active member of the party. Vilms built up a stance, blasting Socialists and the CPR, effectively isolating himself from his former friends. Vilms became active in intra-party politics and met his first success in changing the name of the party to the Centre Royal Party.
Vilms worked his way up through the party and succeeded in filling a vacant seat in the legislature. He argued for his party's stance in issues such as Monarchy and education, but very often found himself voting against his party's own bills. His first success on a national level was the passage of bills regarding casinos in airports. Vilms then went and worked under two ministers. Vilms was, for a short time, an assistant to MECT Vasco IKK, who was a minister, before becoming deputy MILE under Jacob Lundgren.
As deputy, Vilms took on minor tasks, before arriving in Farpoint in time to defuse a nearly deadly confrontation between Rebecca Cook (a fellow CRE member) and a group of right-wing revolutionaries. Vilms became Interim MILE after Lundgren resigned, and remained MILE during the succession crisis of that time. Vilms remained MILE under Vasco IKK. It was under his orders that MILE agents attempted to capture the military leaders responsible for the kidnapping of the President. Vilms argued for the removal of the military from the W.E.T. Vilms also called on his fellow monarchists to support Charles Morgan, a nonpartisan candidate, for President.
Under President Talbott, Vilms became the first major politician to officially visit the W.E.T. after the American attack. It was also during this time that Vilms left the inactive CRE to for the RPE, the Royal Party of Eutopia. After the death of VP Jools, Talbott appointed Vilms his Vice President, and he remained MILE. Vilms ran on Talbott's ticket after an argument with his former compatriot Morgan. However, Talbott lost to Glasser. Vilms was, much to his surprise, asked to take up the MTEF position in the cabinet, which he did. Vilms came under fire for not reacting to the railway problems soon enough. As MTEF Vilms primarily concerned himself with making the W.E.T. a province, and he pushed bills giving the cabinet the green light in this process.
After Glasser's presidency, Vilms took some time out of politics and went to visit his father in New York. He was here when the hurricanes struck Eutopia. While in New York, he received a great deal of information concerning the tension Eutopia was under, and so he went to speak to a UN committee on Eutopia headed by the English. After speaking to the committee, Vilms returned to Eutopia to find it split. Vilms, who is the chairman of the Eutopian Royal Organization and a leading member of the Royal Guard Society still wishes to put a monarch on the throne, but has yet to refound the Royal Party of Eutopia.
Vilms was approached in the effort to put experienced politicians back into office, to restabilize the country. He accepted, putting aside his plans to re-establish a monarchy party in order to help the country. After discussion, Vilms was named Amric Al'Aeshir's vice presidential candidate. When the Unity Party won the election, Vilms was named VP and MIDS. As minister, Vilms began plans for rail-way reconstruction. However, lack of certain funds made the plans only plans. Vilms next act would be an official visit to neighboring Tilipia. Here he gave a speech to the Royal Foundation on the royalist cause. However, while visiting the country, a mistimed terrorist attack took his life.
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Everything You Wanted to Know About
Hawkton J. Tilly, Esq.
But Were Afraid to Ask
Hawkton J. Tilly, Esq.
But Were Afraid to Ask
Background and Youth
The Tilly clan is of good English stock, though they have been Eutopian since time immemorial. The family has never been terribly wealthy; their fortunes have extended no further than occasional flash-in-the-pan regional prominence, always in Jacobia. Even the more successful Tillys (Tillies?) -- a few doctors or entrepreneurs here and there -- have never progressed beyond the middle class.
Thus, it is perhaps no surprise that young Hawkton's family was of modest means, his mother a homemaker and occasional substitute teacher, his father a factory worker. Of greatest significance for this tale, however, was that their tiny red-brick home was within spitting distance of the Eutopian Air Force base at Harton; young Hawkton would often lie on his back and watch the F-5 Tigers flit in and out of the airbase, dreaming of someday joining their ranks.
Join the Air Force, see the world, they said...
Tilly was a studious and moderately bright youth with fair grades, but little else to recommend him apart from some success on the high school debate team. Nevertheless, he eagerly underwent the conscription process upon graduation, immediately indicating his interest in becoming an Air Force pilot. In this, he failed, his vision having been long destroyed by years spent in front of the television not eating his carrots. A clever recruiter noticed his aptitude at debate, however, and convinced him to go the route of Air Force JAG.
This Tilly did grudgingly, getting his B.A. from Eutopia City Military College (in military history) and returning to Gilford University for his J.D. While he found the law interesting, he found his own interests therein growing apart from what he would be expected to know as a JAG officer. Nevertheless, having signed a contract, he served a tour of duty with the Air Force, and mustered out as quickly as possible. He found himself at the end of his service with no attachments, no debt (the military having paid his tuition, and Tilly having worked odd jobs to make ends meet), and a vague sense of bitterness about his military experience. Disillusioned, he set out for the United States not too long before the death of Eutopia's last monarch.
Overseas, and back again
In New York, Tilly bounced from job to job, working for a major firm doing immigration, then lecturing at NYU on Eutopian constitutional law and international law while securing a Master's degree. His lecturing tour then took him to Oxford briefly, and he returned to NYU with what appeared to be a professorial career before him. However, at this point word reached him of a dearth of professional attorneys doing criminal defense work in Eutopia, with a number of major cases soon to go to trial. After a final lecture in which he extolled the constitutional virtues of the right of access to counsel, Tilly returned to his homeland during the first O'Floinn administration.
Tilly in Eutopia
Hawkton's first action on his return to Eutopia was to bankroll a law firm -- Tilly and Associates, LLP -- which purchased an old brownstone at 214 West End in Eutopia City and immediately began billing itself as Eutopia's foremost criminal defense firm. Though it cost him most of his savings from his time as a lecturer, Tilly spared no expense in hiring the best young legal talent in the nation, a practice which has continued to today. The firm immediately began attracting a number of high-profile cases, including the Eutopian Fishermen and Beeblebrox cases. Earnings from these and other cases were adequate to fund the purchase of the old Gilford University stadium and renovate it into Marauders Stadium; the team was formed during the Langley administration (and performed quite poorly in its initial season).
However, Tilly's greatest success was in constitutional law, where the landmark case of Langley v. Glasser increased his public visibility considerably -- and would affect his future significantly. In addition to his client, Dr. Glasser, Tilly also formed good working relationships with Reverend and Attorney General Jack Teano, his successor as AG, former President John O'Floinn, and former President Jacob Lundgren and his son, Michael. Term 6 was largely spent working on the document which would become the Eutopian Charter of Rights, which was passed in the last hours of that term.
Term 7
With the election of Dr. Glasser to the Presidency in Term 7, the post of MILE was offered to Tilly. Though he fancied himself a defender rather than a law enforcer, Hawkton ultimately resolved to take the position and attempt to further the protection of civil rights by working within the system. While it's debatable how much success he had in that regard (distracted as he became by a number of ongoing criminal investigations), he did succeed in injecting some progressive ideas into the Cabinet (for example, the sale of Marticon to its employees.) So pleased was Dr. Glasser with these efforts that he selected Hawkton as Vice President, replacing Amric Al'Aeshir after the latter withdrew due to a family crisis.
Tilly also pursued a number of major investigations during his tenure as MILE, including the pursuit of billions of ducats of missing military procurement funds, the disappearances of South African diamond heiress Witney von Vaam, Steve Whitsox and Zuckergußgeback von Maazarin, and the (ultimately unsuccessful) prosecution of Judge Cesar Anton for the killing of fisherper Luis Gonzaga. He also had to cope with a crisis in the Coast Guard following the privatization of Marticon. Though unable to fulfill his entire agenda, Tilly was relatively successful in his role as MILE; however, his involvement in his work distracted him from political developments. It was with great dismay that he witnessed the failure of FREE and the political disintegration that followed.
Term 8
In the wake of Term 7, Tilly found himself overstressed by his time as MILE, and disillusioned with the political process he witnessed there. He had withdrawn to his home outside Gilford before the hurricanes struck Eutopia, and remainded in seclusion there for much of the Term. He surfaced for any length of time only once, and then only to distribute stored supplies to Jacobian victims of the disasters. Fortunately for Hawkton, his law firm had always been close-knit, and while times were tough in his absence (owing largely to the nation's political and social unrest), they kept the light on for the senior partner. He returned to Eutopia City immediately after the secession of St. Esprit and Tilapia; the disintegration of the Republic seems to have galvanized him into action.
Psychology
Tilly is man haunted by his failures as MILE. No matter how unreasonable it may seem, he has come to associate poorly pursued investigations with the disintegration of the nation's political order. One which sticks in his craw particularly is his failure to locate Witney von Vaam, with whom he has become privately obsessed. In many ways Tilly is a desperately lonely man -- his father died while he was overseas and his mother has refused to speak to him since, and he has had no significant romantic prospects in years -- but he cloaks this all by throwing himself furiously into his work.
Politics
One of the few long-term independents in Eutopia, Hawkton has always tried to remain apart from traditional politics, even when he was unavoidably enmeshed in them (as during Langley v. Glasser, or during his tenure as MILE.) Indeed, while MILE he often insisted that he wasn't a politician, considering it antithetical to attempting to enforce the law. It's not that Tilly dislikes or distrusts politicians; he knows from experience that many of them are hard-working people who are genuinely trying to help their country. He simply takes issue with the way they go about doing so.
Tilly has tried to avoid being pigeonholed, but analysis of the causes he has advocated and the people he has voted for would show him to generally be leftist or center-left (not that anyone has undertaken such an analysis.) He is highly disillusioned with the extreme left, however, blaming the socialists generally -- and Josephus Locke Sergei and Bram Borgman in particular -- for the failure of FREE and the disintegration of Eutopia.
Josephus Locke Sergei
Josephus Locke Sergei son of Russian immigrants to Eutopia, who moved here around 1934. After studying political science and journalism at Eutopia U. was briefly detained for participating in anti-monarchist demonstrations at the tail end of the monarchy years.
Worked as a speech writer for various left-leaning politicians during the Regency Period of Eutopia. Following which, he branched out and co-founded the ESRP--Eutopian Socialist Reform Party, which gained party status in time for Term 2 elections.
Served as Minister of Trade and Finance and various other capacities throught the First Republic era, including Minister of Culture and Speaker of the NA. Was elected to the Assembly several times.
Although loosely tied to the terror group MEOR, he was never charged or convicted but made many enemies throughout Eutopia. He was one of a few politicians to see the First Republic from start to finish, and his newspaper, one of Eutopia's most widely read, The Eutopian Worker, survives to this day. He was arrested once on the flimsiest of accusations during the reign of Jake Langley but released.
At the end of the First Republic, Josephus was the target of many attempts on his life and libelous statements. During his attempt to unify both his own Party, which was beginning to splinter, and the entire Eutopian Left at a Eutopian Social Democratic Congress, Josephus was found to be under accusation of possessing child pronograhpy. Charges were never laid. But the accusations had their effect, and, distracted, Josephus failed to win the confidence of the Labour Unions during their dispute with President Glasser and the administration.
Misled by some, he voted against the popular FREE Bill, a decision he regrets and which may be responsible for the ultimate secession of southern provinces. In the end, Josephus alienated the Left and the Labour movement and his allies in the government.
While giving a speech, an ice cream truck blew up outside his HQ, and Josephus was severely hurt. It is believed he recuperated in Havana, under the guidance of an old friend.
He returned to Eutopia via Morocco at the start of the Second Republic.
His original intention was to lie low in politics and joined the new Party For Progress led by John Kenny. He initially intended to be a behind-the-scenes politician. But finding himself in need of constantly defending Kenny's bizarre statments in the campaign for Term 9, and under strong suggestions from other P4P members, Sergei decided to leave the P4P, taking many members with him.
He teamed up with Per Gonzov and formed the Eutopian Socialist Alliance. He is currently seeking the presidency for Term 10
---Josephus
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Prof. Talbott at age 47 during a Farpoint winter
Background
Pierre Gordon (P.G.) Talbott was born on May 23, 1968 [Age: 53 as July 19, 2005] to Richard H. and Patricia Bourlanges Talbott of St. Brendanstown. He had a traditional middle-class upbringing; his father, Richard (b. 1936), was a moderately prosperous civil engineer. His crowning acheivement was the construction of the Königsbrücke east of Chateauvallon, which currently carries the A2 highway. His mother, née Patricia Bourlanges, was born in 1942 to Mary Jarvis, a laborer in a munitions factory in New Lancaster. Her husband, Henri, eldest son in a Chateauvallon family (prominent for their dry-goods stores), had volunteered to fight for the Free French forces and was killed in action north of Monte Cassino in the summer of '43, without ever knowing his daughter. The two met in Chateauvallon in 1966 while he was in the planning stages of the Königsbrücke project (which was not to be completed until 1980), and married in '67. Pierre was born the next year.
Early Life
Pierre lived in Chateauvallon from 1969 (when construction began) until its end in 1980. Although the project itself was not far removed from the city itself, Richard was often away from home working on it, leaving him with his mother and her family...essentially, in an entirely French household, although he spoke only English with his father and maternal grandmother. With the completion of the Königsbrücke, Richard moved back to St. Brendanstown with his family--this dramatic adjustment, in addition to the birth of his younger sister, Zoe, made this a very trying time for Pierre; it was during this period that he adopted the nickname "P.G." instead of his usual "Pierre."
College, the Military, and Early Career
Graduating early from his high school, he matriculated at Eutopian National University in 1984, where he majored in Mathematics. Politically, he was a something of a radical at University, and was rumored to have been involved with several Marxist groups on campus. However, his military service, the downfall of Communism, and a few unfortunate incidents during his college years tempered his leftist sentiments, and he remained generally apathetic politically throughout the 1990's. Graduating second in his class, P.G. then served for a year in the Eutopian Navy (as part of National Service). Unfortunately, P.G. is very prone to seasickness, which made his year in the Navy quite unenjoyable. Nevertheless, he remained in the Navy reserves until the foundation of the Republic, eventually rising to the rank of Lt. Commander (if only for his perseverance). After gaining his Ph.D. from ENU in 1992, he began teaching mathematics there.
Talbott's Entry to Politics (Terms IV-V)
At the very end of Term III of the Republic, he entered politics, joining the Conservative Coalition [CC]. He was not a major player on either the national or the party level during Term IV--his main profession was still his teaching. However, at the end of Term IV, after the secession of the Eutopian Progressive Party (EPP) from the CC, he was a major player in the CC-CRE (Central Royal Party of Eutopia) conference, writing the majority of the alliance platform. As a result of his labors, he found himself the presidential nominee of the CC-CRE alliance. Although he put up a solid campaign, the withdrawal of Vasco I_Killed-Kenny from the race in exchange for the Vice-Presidential seat doomed Talbott's efforts to failure. Despite beating Josephus of the ESRP and gaining over 35% of the vote, Jake Langley of the EPP won handily. Talbott was, however, elected to a seat in the National Assembly as the CC-CRE's most junior member. Throughout Term V, Talbott played an active role in the National Assembly and was generally an opponent of the Administration's policies, especially regarding the Farpoint crisis, in which he condemned the Langley administration's cooperation with the Americans. Talbott's major legislative accomplishment of the term were the PREBA (Popular Responsibility of the Executive Branch Amendment), which allowed for impeachment of ministers, and the Addendum to the Presidential Succession Amendment, which overruled the precedent set by the High Court in installing Vasco I_Killed-Kenny by defining clearer Constitutional rules for certain unlikely situations involving AWOL presidents. Late in the term, Talbott was appointed MECT by the unlikeliest of suspects--Vasco I_Killed-Kenny. As MECT, Talbott was instrumental in securing Eutopia a spot in the Olympics [OOC: How did we do in those, anyway?]...but, like most other MECT's, did little else.
Later Personal Life
Near the end of Term V, Talbott married Charlotte S. Jenkins (b. 1966), press manager for the CC and former editor of The National, and honeymooned in The Grenadines. They later had one son (born near the end of Term VII), Henry Bourlanges Talbott.
His Presidency
After a messy and rather slipshod campaign in which Talbott had to dodge accusations of ties with the quasi-fascist Tridentist party (despite the fact that he was the first to denounce them), Talbott, now chairman of the CC, was elected President for Term VI by a very narrow margin. Despite a rather productive first few months in office, during which much progress was made in developing the budget and plans for economic recovery, absence of several key members of his cabinet (his MTEF, Jake Langley, and his MDIA, Julseau, to name but two)crippled his administration in its second half. The budget was never submitted to the National Assembly (as the President never received the appropriate budget figures from the ECB headed by Arun Rao), and the economy only worsened. Talbott was able to push through two major bills through the almost-empty National Assembly, however--a major restructring of unemployment benefits and a bill privatizing the nationalized shipyard corporation, Maritcon. Unfortunately for Talbott, the effects of the latter were greatly undermined after his tenure by the sale of it to a cooperative of its employees [OOC: which I believe may have been illegal, since the bill itself stipulated sale in several parts...should investigate this]. During the debate over the privatization of Maritcon, Talbott was injured by a rock thrown by a unemployed Latin fisherman, Luis Gonzaga, setting in motion a sequence of events which eventually lead to the secession of Tilapia and St. Espirit--a sequence of events that was not, of course, Talbott's fault.
Defeat--Talbott as MDIA
A poor track record combined with an almost non-existent campaign led to a rather sizeable upset in the polls for the Term VII elections, gaining under 40% of the vote and losing to Dr. Glasser. However, he did gain the one CC slot in the National Assembly and was appointed Dr. Glasser's MDIA, a job which took up most of Talbott's efforts in Term VII. Talbott's efforts to reform the military under the Governmental Commission for Military Reform (which he founded late in his term as President), largely failed to acheive significant results due to the arms embargos and his long absences from Eutopia. These absences were due to his diplomatic mission to the United States in an attempt to smooth over relations and end the arms embargo. Although he failed at the latter, he did reach an agreement with the Americans concerning a free trade relation between the US and Eutopia. However, this plan was approved by neither the President nor the National Assembly.
Talbott in the Wilderness
Talbott's return to Eutopia at the end of his mission was prevented by the hurricanes that wreaked disaster on Eutopia at the end of Term VII. Thus, throughout Term VIII, he stayed in Washington and remained the main spokesman for Eutopia and the Federalist cause in the United States, even appearing on "Highball," on which he crushed Senator Blowerd in debate.
Talbott returned to Eutopia at the very end of Term VIII, serving as international observer for the independence referendum in the WET, where his decisions on the three-way ballot made possible the WET's "No" vote, thus keeping the WET in the United Provinces of Eutopia.
P.G. Talbott and Charlotte Jenkins Talbott were divorced in late August 2004. After a protracted legal battle, she retained custody of their three-year-old son Henry, both of whom have since dropped Talbott from their names.
Talbott joined the Unity Party in the run-up to the Term IX elections, but remained uncharacteristically quiet in the campaign. After Amric's landslide, he was reappointed to his old role in Cabinet, now renamed MTIA. He set out in an aggressive campaign of diplomacy to fulfill his two major goals of the term--improving relations with the United States, and working towards Eutopian reunification through a sequence of consequences. Although he was able to secure a lifting of the Japanese arms embargo, his term in office was, on the whole, unproductive. The CAFTA conference, intended to establish a free-trade zone over the island, was a personal failure for Talbott, and he was rarely seen in government afterwards. Talbott's departure and the death of Lucien Napier (Eutopian ambassador to the US) essentially shut down Eutopian foreign policy for the remainder to the term.
It is rumored that Talbott may have suffered somewhat of a nervous breakdown halfway through Term IX, caused by the combination of failure in public life (the CAFTA conference) and in his private life (his divorce and loss of the custody battle).
Return to Politics
Talbott returned to the political scene at the end of Term IX, leaving the Unity Party when it became the United Moderate Party, and joining the Conservative Union of Eutopia. Although his name was floated as a potential Presidential candidate, he declined to run and became a candidate for the General Assembly.
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Rüdiger Straub
Rüdiger was born as a third child into a farmer family in southern New Schleswig some twenty years ago. He was a bright student in school right from the start. Rüdiger was never too interested by a life as a farmer, but instead got immersed into the electronic world during high school where he took his first nascent steps with computers. As his parents were never able to buy him a computer at home, he found himself spending more and more time among his friends in high school computer club. Rüdiger continued to college after high school and as his talents with computers were quite obvious and not too usual, his teachers encouraged him to apply into Neuwestbaden's Eutopian Technical Institute. As his parents made it clear that they could not afford to fund his studies there, he studied extremely hard in his last year in college and was awarded a stipend to study in ETI.
Now as a new student in ETI, Rüdiger has to cope with the very tight funding a student gets, which has encouraged him to become active in politics so that he could change things. Also as he has lived most of his life in a peaceful farming community, he simply can't understand how much violence city people have inside them and why they have means to use it destructively.
Rüdiger is somewhat skinny man, of rather average height (181 cm). He has short natural blond hair and grey eyes. He dresses comfortably in black jeans and various rather outrageous band shirts.
Rüdiger was born as a third child into a farmer family in southern New Schleswig some twenty years ago. He was a bright student in school right from the start. Rüdiger was never too interested by a life as a farmer, but instead got immersed into the electronic world during high school where he took his first nascent steps with computers. As his parents were never able to buy him a computer at home, he found himself spending more and more time among his friends in high school computer club. Rüdiger continued to college after high school and as his talents with computers were quite obvious and not too usual, his teachers encouraged him to apply into Neuwestbaden's Eutopian Technical Institute. As his parents made it clear that they could not afford to fund his studies there, he studied extremely hard in his last year in college and was awarded a stipend to study in ETI.
Now as a new student in ETI, Rüdiger has to cope with the very tight funding a student gets, which has encouraged him to become active in politics so that he could change things. Also as he has lived most of his life in a peaceful farming community, he simply can't understand how much violence city people have inside them and why they have means to use it destructively.
Rüdiger is somewhat skinny man, of rather average height (181 cm). He has short natural blond hair and grey eyes. He dresses comfortably in black jeans and various rather outrageous band shirts.
John O'Floinn
A mild biography for a mild man.
O'Floinn was born in Dublin, Ireland. Departing for the US at the age of 18 to attend Harvard university, John took an interest in the law, and stayed at Harvard for law school. It wasn't long before he was running his own firm. Though he enjoyed his time practicing law, O'Floinn stopped taking on clients for himself after a few years, leaving his subordinates to handle the caseload the firm was carrying. John, meanwhile, had built a solid financial base through years of clever investing.
On his first business venture, O'Floinn encountered success manufacturing electronic equipment involved mainly security. O'Floinn would be jumped to millionaire status when his company was given a government contract to manufacture equipment for the Department of Defense. He went on to open a string of pubs scattered around America and Canada.
He was temporarily audited by the IRS when he jokingly said "I'm worth five and a half million dollars that you know about," during a speech he gave to a board of congressmen about a new surveillence system he was developing. The IRS agents, who thought they were on the verge of discovering a massive tax-evasion plot, were stunned to learn that the 1.3 million dollars O'Floinn's company had tied up in the Carribean Islands made up a legitimate tourism business.
A triumphant run for the US senate shot O'Floinn's wealth up another peg, but more importantly he gained influence and experience that would later prove to be useful as he could not at the time imagine. After a successful senatorial term, O'Floinn ran a campaign for governor of Massachusetts. About two years into his term, a group of right-wing extremists attempted to gun John down at a public park dedication ceremony.
Calling it quits for American politics, O'Floinn resigned his position and moved to Eutopia, arriving at the end of Term I, during the Term II elections. But he couldn't avoid political conflict. Shortly upon arrival in the island, O'Floinn began construction of the Eutopia Racetrack, which caused him to clash with socialist leader Josephus. An outstanding lack of support for Josephus's threats to close down the track was shown, and John won his fair share of respect for standing firm in the face of then Vice-President Josephus.
Term III saw John's re-entry to politics, with the first of two terms of O'Floinn's Presidency. He was elected at the head of the Coalition to Preserve the Republic, an alliance of all major pro-republican parties. He was re-elected in term IV, after which the coalition split apart. The O'Floinn administration set a number of projects in motions that would reap benefits for later administrations, most notably the expansion of New Lancaster Airport. It also saw the foiled coup attempts of General Dan Hartwell and Roger Smith, not to mention a fresh crop of troubles in the WET, started by the rape of a Topan woman by an American officer. After his Presidency, O'Floinn was chosen as Attourney General, and became a great proponent of judicial reform.
Other O'Floinn accomplishments include the opening of the Shamrock Fields Golf Club, O'Floinn's Old Irish Brewery, and the highly successful tv talk show, Eutopia Tonight! With John O'Floinn. O'Floinn, being an only child, inherited his entire family fortune after the death of his parents in Term VIII. Much of the family's vast corporate empire had recently been sold off, resulting an immense expansion of O'Floinn's cash reserves.
O'Floinn would use some of his inheritance to expand his Racetrack and other Eutopian enterprizes, though he would put away a vast fortune in banks. A small, yet noteworthy, chunk of the money would be withdrawn after several months. It is still unknown what O'Floinn did with it.
O'Floinn would retain his position as Commissioner of Justice through the Gall/Grant fiasco, and was a key member of the Unity Party, which would hold the Presidency and a 3/4ths majority of the General Assembly during Term IX. With the many cloak and dagger stories surrounding the formation of the party, O'Floinn remains one of the few who knows the entire truth.
A strong supporter of Hawkton Tilly's campaign, O'Floinn was highly disappointed at his loss to Josephus Locke Sergei, though he accepted it and went on to work with the new President on a number of issues.
It would be during Term X that O'Floinn threw what would later be termed by some as a coup d'etat within the United Moderate Party, when he supplanted Jake Langley as party chairman. At the time, he likened himself to William Pitt, who had said on the brink of the American Revolution "I know that I alone can save England, and that no one else can." Believing that he was the only man with the ability to reinvigorate the centrists in Eutopian politics, O'Floinn set out to ensure a more moderate figure in the Diamond Office in Term XI. He believed he had succeded when Loic de Fourgères took office, but a numer of mishaps in Term XI would mark the term as a solid failure for Eutopia.
Between a major terrorist attack, a scandal surrounding MDIS Truman's dealings with Nikolai Volkov, to whom he provided cash, immunity, and a pair of end-user certificates, the subsequent mysterious death of the MDIS, and a quasi-war with Cuba, it was a dark time for the United Provinces. When de Fourgères departed to conduct the operation against Cuba, O'Floinn was named acting President. He began to take to steps to improve things, but riots and a military debacle set him back. de Fourgères, returning from his failed project in Cuba, attempted to remove O'Floinn from the Diamond Office by declaring himself capable of fulfilling his duties, naming P.G. Talbott as MTIA and VP, and resigning. O'Floinn declared that de Fourgères could not name Talbott to the MTIA, as Loic himself currently held that position, and thus at the time of his resignation, O'Floinn was still VP and thus dropped the 'acting' from his title and ascended to the Presidency.
Political Resumè
President - Terms III-IV & XI
Only President ever elected to a second term
Attorney General - Terms V-IX
Only Attorney General not dismissed by High Court
Commissioner of Justice - Term X
First Commissioner of Justice
Speaker of General Assembly - Term X-XI
Parties
Member - Moderate Party - Terms II-V
Member - Eutopian Progress Party - Term V
Leader - Eutopian Progress Party - Terms VI-VII
Founder and Leader - Centrist Republican Party - Terms VII-VIII
Member - Unity Party - Term IX
Member - United Moderate Party - Term X
Leader - United Moderate Party - Term X-XI
Groups, Associations, etc.
Member - Eutopian Business Roundtable - Terms IV-VIII
Member - Eutopian Bar Association - Terms IV-VIII
Chairman - Eutopian Bar Association - Term IX-?
Chairman - Eutopian Business Association - Term X-?
Assets:
Domestic:
Shamrock Gaming Co. - Ð784 million
Shamrock Fields Golf Club - Ð5.3 million
O'Floinn's Old Irish Brewery - Ð983,000
Eutopia Tonight! & Related Assets - Ð1.2 million
House in Eutopia City - Ð650,000
Foreign:
O'Floinn family estates (Ireland) - Ð35 million
The Shamrock Gazette (Ireland) - Ð13.5 million
Liberty Electronics (USA) - Ð104 million
Paradise Island Resorts & Boat Tours (Carribean Islands) - Ð57.3 million
The Shamrock Merchant Bank (Ireland) - Ð317 million
Estimated Gross Worth: Ð1.4 billion
A mild biography for a mild man.
O'Floinn was born in Dublin, Ireland. Departing for the US at the age of 18 to attend Harvard university, John took an interest in the law, and stayed at Harvard for law school. It wasn't long before he was running his own firm. Though he enjoyed his time practicing law, O'Floinn stopped taking on clients for himself after a few years, leaving his subordinates to handle the caseload the firm was carrying. John, meanwhile, had built a solid financial base through years of clever investing.
On his first business venture, O'Floinn encountered success manufacturing electronic equipment involved mainly security. O'Floinn would be jumped to millionaire status when his company was given a government contract to manufacture equipment for the Department of Defense. He went on to open a string of pubs scattered around America and Canada.
He was temporarily audited by the IRS when he jokingly said "I'm worth five and a half million dollars that you know about," during a speech he gave to a board of congressmen about a new surveillence system he was developing. The IRS agents, who thought they were on the verge of discovering a massive tax-evasion plot, were stunned to learn that the 1.3 million dollars O'Floinn's company had tied up in the Carribean Islands made up a legitimate tourism business.
A triumphant run for the US senate shot O'Floinn's wealth up another peg, but more importantly he gained influence and experience that would later prove to be useful as he could not at the time imagine. After a successful senatorial term, O'Floinn ran a campaign for governor of Massachusetts. About two years into his term, a group of right-wing extremists attempted to gun John down at a public park dedication ceremony.
Calling it quits for American politics, O'Floinn resigned his position and moved to Eutopia, arriving at the end of Term I, during the Term II elections. But he couldn't avoid political conflict. Shortly upon arrival in the island, O'Floinn began construction of the Eutopia Racetrack, which caused him to clash with socialist leader Josephus. An outstanding lack of support for Josephus's threats to close down the track was shown, and John won his fair share of respect for standing firm in the face of then Vice-President Josephus.
Term III saw John's re-entry to politics, with the first of two terms of O'Floinn's Presidency. He was elected at the head of the Coalition to Preserve the Republic, an alliance of all major pro-republican parties. He was re-elected in term IV, after which the coalition split apart. The O'Floinn administration set a number of projects in motions that would reap benefits for later administrations, most notably the expansion of New Lancaster Airport. It also saw the foiled coup attempts of General Dan Hartwell and Roger Smith, not to mention a fresh crop of troubles in the WET, started by the rape of a Topan woman by an American officer. After his Presidency, O'Floinn was chosen as Attourney General, and became a great proponent of judicial reform.
Other O'Floinn accomplishments include the opening of the Shamrock Fields Golf Club, O'Floinn's Old Irish Brewery, and the highly successful tv talk show, Eutopia Tonight! With John O'Floinn. O'Floinn, being an only child, inherited his entire family fortune after the death of his parents in Term VIII. Much of the family's vast corporate empire had recently been sold off, resulting an immense expansion of O'Floinn's cash reserves.
O'Floinn would use some of his inheritance to expand his Racetrack and other Eutopian enterprizes, though he would put away a vast fortune in banks. A small, yet noteworthy, chunk of the money would be withdrawn after several months. It is still unknown what O'Floinn did with it.
O'Floinn would retain his position as Commissioner of Justice through the Gall/Grant fiasco, and was a key member of the Unity Party, which would hold the Presidency and a 3/4ths majority of the General Assembly during Term IX. With the many cloak and dagger stories surrounding the formation of the party, O'Floinn remains one of the few who knows the entire truth.
A strong supporter of Hawkton Tilly's campaign, O'Floinn was highly disappointed at his loss to Josephus Locke Sergei, though he accepted it and went on to work with the new President on a number of issues.
It would be during Term X that O'Floinn threw what would later be termed by some as a coup d'etat within the United Moderate Party, when he supplanted Jake Langley as party chairman. At the time, he likened himself to William Pitt, who had said on the brink of the American Revolution "I know that I alone can save England, and that no one else can." Believing that he was the only man with the ability to reinvigorate the centrists in Eutopian politics, O'Floinn set out to ensure a more moderate figure in the Diamond Office in Term XI. He believed he had succeded when Loic de Fourgères took office, but a numer of mishaps in Term XI would mark the term as a solid failure for Eutopia.
Between a major terrorist attack, a scandal surrounding MDIS Truman's dealings with Nikolai Volkov, to whom he provided cash, immunity, and a pair of end-user certificates, the subsequent mysterious death of the MDIS, and a quasi-war with Cuba, it was a dark time for the United Provinces. When de Fourgères departed to conduct the operation against Cuba, O'Floinn was named acting President. He began to take to steps to improve things, but riots and a military debacle set him back. de Fourgères, returning from his failed project in Cuba, attempted to remove O'Floinn from the Diamond Office by declaring himself capable of fulfilling his duties, naming P.G. Talbott as MTIA and VP, and resigning. O'Floinn declared that de Fourgères could not name Talbott to the MTIA, as Loic himself currently held that position, and thus at the time of his resignation, O'Floinn was still VP and thus dropped the 'acting' from his title and ascended to the Presidency.
Political Resumè
President - Terms III-IV & XI
Only President ever elected to a second term
Attorney General - Terms V-IX
Only Attorney General not dismissed by High Court
Commissioner of Justice - Term X
First Commissioner of Justice
Speaker of General Assembly - Term X-XI
Parties
Member - Moderate Party - Terms II-V
Member - Eutopian Progress Party - Term V
Leader - Eutopian Progress Party - Terms VI-VII
Founder and Leader - Centrist Republican Party - Terms VII-VIII
Member - Unity Party - Term IX
Member - United Moderate Party - Term X
Leader - United Moderate Party - Term X-XI
Groups, Associations, etc.
Member - Eutopian Business Roundtable - Terms IV-VIII
Member - Eutopian Bar Association - Terms IV-VIII
Chairman - Eutopian Bar Association - Term IX-?
Chairman - Eutopian Business Association - Term X-?
Assets:
Domestic:
Shamrock Gaming Co. - Ð784 million
Shamrock Fields Golf Club - Ð5.3 million
O'Floinn's Old Irish Brewery - Ð983,000
Eutopia Tonight! & Related Assets - Ð1.2 million
House in Eutopia City - Ð650,000
Foreign:
O'Floinn family estates (Ireland) - Ð35 million
The Shamrock Gazette (Ireland) - Ð13.5 million
Liberty Electronics (USA) - Ð104 million
Paradise Island Resorts & Boat Tours (Carribean Islands) - Ð57.3 million
The Shamrock Merchant Bank (Ireland) - Ð317 million
Estimated Gross Worth: Ð1.4 billion
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Vicar Samuel Nathaniel Flanders
Born in Uxbridge in 1969 as son of the local vicar Francis Drake Flanders (Family entered Eutopia in the 18th century) and Maggy Sörensen (third generation immigrant with Danish-German background). He went to seminar in New Lancaster City where he got into charity and work with drug addicts and alcoholics an experience he never had forgotten. After his studies he was sent to a parish in St.-Esprit. it's there where he became a fan of Olympique St.Esprit. He's author of the official Anglo fansite. He was called back fifteen years ago and given the parish in New Lancaster where he still lives and works today.
On the political front he was always a moderate royalist with a leftist streak. But after the coronation of the queen of Tilapia. He was disgusted and became a republican. He's a proponent of the new wind in the church like women who are vicars and gay priests. He's a supporter of the new Archbisshop of Canterbury.
He's married with Héloise Dujardin who he met and married in St.Esprit. He has three children. James (19y student biology), Edward (17yo) & Marie-Louise (15yo).
Born in Uxbridge in 1969 as son of the local vicar Francis Drake Flanders (Family entered Eutopia in the 18th century) and Maggy Sörensen (third generation immigrant with Danish-German background). He went to seminar in New Lancaster City where he got into charity and work with drug addicts and alcoholics an experience he never had forgotten. After his studies he was sent to a parish in St.-Esprit. it's there where he became a fan of Olympique St.Esprit. He's author of the official Anglo fansite. He was called back fifteen years ago and given the parish in New Lancaster where he still lives and works today.
On the political front he was always a moderate royalist with a leftist streak. But after the coronation of the queen of Tilapia. He was disgusted and became a republican. He's a proponent of the new wind in the church like women who are vicars and gay priests. He's a supporter of the new Archbisshop of Canterbury.
He's married with Héloise Dujardin who he met and married in St.Esprit. He has three children. James (19y student biology), Edward (17yo) & Marie-Louise (15yo).
Charles Frederick Johnston
Basic Information
Age: 25[Born April 12th, 1979][Born in New Lancaster]
Nationality: Eutopian[American Parents]
Race: White European[60% German, 40% Irish, 10% Cherokee]
Education: NLCU[New Lancaster City University][Studied English and Political Science]
Personal Politics: Socialist, Athiest, and supporter of a federal system
Biography
Born on April 12th, 1979, in New Lancaster City, to American journalists, Charles, grew up in a middle class family constantly struggling to raise their child. He immediately showed his intelligence by learning how to read much younger then the average child by reading his parents articles. Later on, he exceled in English and Social Studies which eventually allowed him to gain a scholarship to NLCU.
During his time at university, he wrote for the local newspaper in a section called Stories of Ourselves which centered on all types of people and their stories. He also wrote political essays supporting socialism in Eutopia and over events through out the world, in 1999, Charles won a major award for his essay centering around small socialist community living on the eastern coast of New Lancaster.
After graduating with honors from NLCU, he surprisingly took a job with a minor political magazine operating out of New Lancaster. He was a leading journalist who traveled across the country[he had traveled much of New Lancaster during his university days], reporting stories of success, failure, and on the struggles of people.
However, Charles, feeling that he was not doing enough, quit his job and decided to enter Eutopia's fragmented political world in and effort to unite and bring prosperity to Eutopia and its people.
Name: Ian Supremo, p.h.d in History (specificly Japanese and Napoleonic)
Age: 30
Marriage Status: not
Ethincity: Afro-Caledonian
Residence: Eutopia City
Employment: college professor at ENU, failed politician (in America), radio talk show host
Political Affilation: The United Eutopian Front (UEF)
A Short History
Origins. Born: January 9th, 1975. Although he was born in the United States, both Supremo's African and Scottish ancestors had been long time residents of Eutopia (the Africans being descended perhaps from some of the ancient Punic colonists). Taking advantage of this, the former candidate for Congress and former assisant professor at UVA has left his native Virginia to return to the land of his ancestors.
Politics. Supremo, from an early age, has been politically involved, very religious, and a lover of History. He is also known for being a radical support of monarchy. "If only we had made a Stuart king of America, how much better would we be. The liars in the District of Columbia would not be vampires upon the neck of the people, bloody, greed, self-gratifiers who would have put the avaricious magnates of Poland to shame!" He has studied Eutopia's current sucession problem and supports Queen Maria, putting one of the remaining Stuarts on the throne, or having Maria marry a man of the House of Stuart. As you can tell, Supremo loves the House of Stuart. "No house, other than the Romanovs perhaps, has been so unjustly deprived of its throne which it held by ancient right of blood and divine blessing."
Radio. Supremo is one that has always hoped to use the media to impress view like these among the masses and has been (and most likely will be again here in Eutopia) a inflamatory but popular radio show host. "The radio is a mystical medium and it is the one I love. Television is for the shallow and papers for the old and incapable. Radio stands above these by far." Radio Rex, Supremo's first attempt at making his vision a reality, was destroyed in the hurricane of the Summer of '04.
Will be updated whenever needed...
Name: Dr. Asimov Yim
BSc (CUHK); BSocSc, M.Phil (LSE); PhD (Princeton)
Age: 44
Marriage Status: Married
Ethincity: Russian- Chinese
Occupation: Ambassador of the United States to the United Provinces of Eutopia, Political Scientist
Location: Embassy of the United States, Eutopia City, UPE
Ideological Stance: Social Democrat
Biography
Ambassador Dr. Asimov Yim, PhD is the XXnd Ambassador of the United States to the United Province of Eutopia. The current administration nominated him on July 3, 200X. He was confirmed by the Senate on July 20, 200X, and sworn in by Secretary of State on October 30, 200X. On December 5, 200X, he presented his credentials to President Al’Aeshir.
Dr. Yim, of California, borned in Hong Kong in 1960. Before his arrival in Eutopia City, he is an Professor in the Department of Policial Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from University of Princeton, a M.Phil & BSocSc in Politics at the London School of Economics, and a B.Sc. in Biology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Prior to that appointment, he served as consultant to the National Security Council from 199X to 200X and as a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Vienna Follow-up Meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Furthermore, Ambassador Yim has served in his current post once for a short tenure before in 200X but quickly recalled and resigned due to health issues/
Dr. Yim has been Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, Luce Fellow at East Asian Institute of Columbia University, and An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow at the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University.
BSc (CUHK); BSocSc, M.Phil (LSE); PhD (Princeton)
Age: 44
Marriage Status: Married
Ethincity: Russian- Chinese
Occupation: Ambassador of the United States to the United Provinces of Eutopia, Political Scientist
Location: Embassy of the United States, Eutopia City, UPE
Ideological Stance: Social Democrat
Biography
Ambassador Dr. Asimov Yim, PhD is the XXnd Ambassador of the United States to the United Province of Eutopia. The current administration nominated him on July 3, 200X. He was confirmed by the Senate on July 20, 200X, and sworn in by Secretary of State on October 30, 200X. On December 5, 200X, he presented his credentials to President Al’Aeshir.
Dr. Yim, of California, borned in Hong Kong in 1960. Before his arrival in Eutopia City, he is an Professor in the Department of Policial Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from University of Princeton, a M.Phil & BSocSc in Politics at the London School of Economics, and a B.Sc. in Biology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Prior to that appointment, he served as consultant to the National Security Council from 199X to 200X and as a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Vienna Follow-up Meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Furthermore, Ambassador Yim has served in his current post once for a short tenure before in 200X but quickly recalled and resigned due to health issues/
Dr. Yim has been Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, Luce Fellow at East Asian Institute of Columbia University, and An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow at the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University.
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