Marco Sophia

## Marco Fredrich Sophia

Plam Portrait, 2074

**Marco Fredrich Sophia** (Born, 22th of June, 2038) was an Icelandic politician, businessman and formerly the richest man in Iceland. Born in Reykjavik, the capital of the Icelandic Republic to a family of a rabbi and a teacher, he grew up in poverty, something very common for Icelanders in the 40s. When he was 13, the then Prime Minister of the Icelandic Republic, Victor Saari, awarded him a stare funded scholarship to the American Collage of Reykjavik, an elite and prestigious private high school, for having the only perfect score on all 4 of the national high school entry exams - Math, Icelandic, Science and History. After graduating with a full 4.0 GPA 2 years early, he was accepted into the Icelandic National University of Business, earning a Master's Degree in Business at 20. During the time he was studying, he began investing what was left of his academic allowance into stocks, eventually putting together an investment fund by the name of the Sophia Estate. In 2059, Marco began financing several hundred local business startups, riding off their success to continue earning enough money to financially survive the 2061 Icelandic Recession. He joined the youth organization of the political party Social Democracy for Iceland in mid 2056, his intelligence and appeal to the party leadership guaranteeing him the nomination for Mayor of Reykjavik in the 2062 Icelandic General Election. He went on to win in a close race with incumbent Trond Eriksen of the Liberal Party of Iceland, their debates being notably civilized and respectful for the political era that they were set in. He married the then Minister of Health Maja Sophia on the 26th of June, 2064. After the emergence of ColdLisitania in 2065, there was an Icelandic political crisis as the Conservative Party of Iceland declared their support for direct annexation, leading to their victory in the 2066 Icelandic General Election, which was swayed by a wave of immigrants from ColdLisitania who took advantage of the Icelandic Republic's open borders policy that allowed any person who had taken residence in Iceland for a year to claim citizenship and thus be allowed to vote. Thanks to a provision in the Last Decree of the Icelandic Parliament, which granted all government duties and power to the monarch of ColdLisitania, however, the position of any current mayor in Iceland was to be maintained and continue being elected every 4 years. Sophia went on to serve in his position during the entire existence of ColdLisitania and the Nordic Republic, up until his death that occurred shortly after the 2074 Nordic General Election, which saw Gustav Trudeau's government earn a Parliament majority large enough to officially proclaim the establishment of New Frauntundraland. His death was ruled a suicide due to it being the result of a gun shot to the temple, yet the government refused to conduct an investigation. The last person known for sure to have met with Sophia was notorious Swedish mafioso Jon "The Mammoth" Holm, who had been recently released on bail. He was a father of three, Apostle of Reykjavik Maximilian Sophia, former Quartermaster General Helena Sophia and former Minister of Flight Lukas Sophia. His children each inherited a third of the Sophia Estate, at the time sixth largest corporate entity in New Frauntundraland, valued at a total of 320,510,703,849 USD at the time of his death.