Ada Nilsen

**Ada Sophia Nilsen** (September 29, 1997 -) was an Avalonian politician and campaigner who served as the 5th Väldeminister of Avalonia from September 27, 2025 until September 27, 2041, and as leader of the Liberal Socialist Party of Avalonia from August 1, 2023 to May 17, 2041. Prior to holding a senior office of state, Nilsen was the MP for Malmo State between 2017 and 2025, winning election and then re-election in 2017 and 2021. She was the third female leader of the Avalonian republic and the third LSP leader of the nation since it's creation in 2005.

Ada Nilsen served for 16 years as Väldeminister of Avalonia and as the head of the Nielsen Administration and remains only the second youngest leader of the nation, taking office on September 27, 2025 just 2 days from her 28th birthday, with the only younger leader being Queen Elsie, who took office aged just 8 and later married Ada Nielsen in April 2025, a few months before her first election victory. Nilsen's campaign acted as a big tent movement, carrying on the back of the existing Liberal Socialist political platform, as well as drawing upon existing demographic of young liberals, and remaining royalist factions who were pleased with her credentials as the wife to former Queen Elsie.

Leading the Republic of Avalonia for 16 years from September 27, 2025 until September 27, 2041, Ada Nilsen presided over a period of great economic and military expansion, as well as expanding the scale of state-owned Xero energy, gaining energy self-sufficiency by 2027 whilst also gaining diplomatic favour and benefits through lucrative energy contracts. Nilsen's administration won praise from many international pundits for it's efforts to end discrimination within Avalonian society, with Nilsen becoming one of the few openly LGBT world leaders with her marriage to Elsie Johansen Nilsen in 2025.

During her premiership, Ada Nilsen cultivated a reputation both abroad and domestically as a devoted reformist and liberal icon, styled to many as a democratic alternative to the authoritarian socialism of the Libirachi Empire although both nations had very strong relations during the period of Nilsen's premiership, in part due to their joint response to the 2027 Global Banking Crisis and the large role Avalonia played in the procurement of resources for the Libirachi Mars 2030 Project.

## History

 **Electoral History**
2017 General Election • 2021 General Election • 2025 Väldeminister election • 2029 Väldeminister election • 2033 Väldeminister election • 2037 Väldeminister election

Born in 1997 in the city of Malmo, Ada Nilsen grew up within the last years of the Johansen house reign of Queen Victoria, attending primary and secondary school within the city of Malmo before leaving in 2015 aged 18 to act as a campaigner for her local constituency of Malmo State and won a seat for Parliament in 2017 as part of the Liberal Socialist party aged 20, making her the youngest MP in the house and earning the ceremonial and not entirely serious title of "Baby of the House".

Running her office as Malmo State's MP for 8 years, Nielsen grew strong within her party ranks, serving as a backbencher in opposition under the governments of Matti Vanhanen and then Tuula Haatainen, Nielsen grew to resent the way the constitution promoted two separate elections for MPs and then the Prime Minister as well as a separate election for Väldeminister, a system she later abolished in the 2027 Constitutional Revision in her first administration.

During her time prior to taking office, Nilsen was an activist for liberal movements such as the state ownership of numerous essential services like Avalonian Rail, and won her position as the leader of the Liberal Socialist party in 2023 on the back of many of these platforms, using her 10 year career in the parliament as Malmo State's MP to boost her case for power which ultimately won her the 2025 Väldeminister election

## Premiership

 Main article: Premiership of Ada Nilsen

 Prime Minister
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Winning the 2025 Väldeminister election in a landslide, political activist Ada Nilsen seized the office of Väldeminister of Avalonia on the back of a manifesto of liberal policies and the platform of the Liberal Socialist Party, becoming the first openly gay leader of any European nation with her inauguration on September 27, 2025. Touted as a sign of the nations reunification, the marriage of Ada Nilsen to former Queen Elsie Johansen in early 2025 just months prior to the election was marred with a great sense of optimism for the future of the nation. Implementing policies to reinvigorate the Avalonian Mercantile Navy with new vessels and an influx of crew, whilst continuing a history of internationalist interventions, working with the new Librachi empress Penny Fox, with whom Nielsen formed a deep personal friendship, to help finance and run the Libirachi Mars 2030 Project whilst extending the vast oil and rare metal reserves of the nation to help run other competing space programmes, although with a clear bias to the Libirachi Empire, a factor many social historians place down to the close personal bonds between the two leaders.

Carrying parliament in the election too, Väldeminister Nilsen brought back Jennifer Friedrickson to serve as her prime minister, showing a clear distain for the constitutional parameters set out in the original constitution, leading to the 2027 revision of the Avalonian constitution which did away with the requirement for the Prime Minister to be the leader of the largest party, instead changing the law to mean that the Väldeminister has the constitutional right to appoint whomever they please to the office, separating government from parliament and reducing scrutiny that is normally upheld to government officials. Despite this, the government still has to seek parliamentary approval to pass legislation, thereby meaning that it is still of paramount importance for a political party to win control of parliament as well as the head of state office. Passing key sets of law through parliament that abolished the use of nuclear and fossil fuel in exchange for green renewable energy resources which benefit the environment of the Avalonian (Scandinavian) Peninsula. The abundance of clean green energy in Avalonia allowed the Nielsen Administration to begin a mass export of the unused deposits of non-renewable energy to other nations, financing an economic re-birth as a global leader whilst also beginning a period of dependency on Avalonian fuel as the world began to run out of coal and oil by the end of the 2020s.

Tasked by Väldeminister Ada Nilsen to find a solution to the impending financial collapse in the spring of 2027, Prime Minister Jennifer Friedrickson established a council of state employed social and economic scientists to try to help kick-start the economy, resulting in the creation of the Sino-Scandinavian Development Fund in coalition with the Libirachi Empire in order to lend money to smaller nations and reap back a profit through high interest costs, as well as taking on board a large sized military contract for the procurement of several hundred thousand kilograms of high value metals and other oils and fuel for the Libirachi Mars 2030 Project. Boosted by the influx of Libirachi Yen, the Avlonian economy began to bounce back by the autumn and through a series of vast infrastructure renovations, the Avalonian government had kickstarted the nation once more by the winter, leading a team with the International Monetary Fund in 2028 to organise a global "bounce-back" with Friedrickson and Nilsen at the helm of the project, as the leaders of one of only a select handful of nations not to have been utterly wreaked with havoc and upheaval as a result of the calamitous financial crash.

## Gallery

Ada Nilsen official portraitVäldeminister Nilsen on a state visit to the Libirachi EmpireAda Nilsen campaigningAda Nilsen in 2033