Tom Nook (the only TRUE canon)

**Tom Nook** (born 6 November 1961) is a Japanese-American businessman, raccoon/tanuki (disputed), mercenary, terrorist, fugitive and convicted war criminal who first briefly served as President of Republika Srpska from his overthrow of Radovan Karadžić on 10 October 1995, during the Bosnian War until his deposition by the Garda Panteri under Ljubiša "Mauzer" Savić on 19 December 1995. He was soon exiled to Belarus, where he founded Nook Inc., officially a trading and shipping company although it also secretly operated paramilitary forces that were sold to numerous warring factions, rebel groups and terrorist organizations. Nook was a advisor to ADFL forces in the First Congo War, and then a advisor to Ugandan forces in the Second Congo War, although he betrayed his Ugandan allies and declared himself as President of the DRC in 2000, although this gained little recognition and he fled the Congo in 2001.

With the backing of Muammar Gaddafi, Nook overthrew the government of the Central African Republic in 2004, installing his nephew Timmy as president after his own brief tenure as president. Nook served as de facto head of state of the Central African Republic while Timmy served as a figurehead leader until the conclusion of a civil war in 2006 which forced Nook to flee first to Egypt and then to Libya in 2008. After the conclusion of the First Libyan Civil War which deposed his friend Gaddafi in 2011, Nook attempted to flee to Saudi Arabia however was apprehended by Interpol forces in Israel and put on trial before the ICTY, being charged with war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. However, he fled United Nations custody and joined the Allied Democratic Forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2015, rising to become the leader of their anti-ISIL faction by 2019. However, he abruptly resigned his command as leader of the ADF and fled to a uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean in 2020, establishing the Nookist Republic, a internationally unrecognized republic with himself as dictator. Nook has been called the "world's most wanted person" by many, being wanted in 180 of the 196 UN member nations.

## Early life

Tom Nook was born on November 6, 1961 in the city of Osaka. His father was an American businessman while the identity of his mother is unknown. The two were living in Japan when Tom was born, however returned to New York in January of 1963, when Tom was a year old, where his father founded a department store chain that quickly spread through the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, reaching the Midwest by 1970. Tom's father ran for Governor of New York in the 1974 New York gubernatorial election as a Independent, pulling 3.7% of the vote but still falling in a distant third place, behind the Republican candidate and incumbent governor Malcolm Wilson who fell in second place with 41.9% of the vote and the Democratic nominee Hugh Carey who won with 57.2% of the vote. He ran again in 1978 and 1982 but dropped out both times. Tom Nook's father was elected to the House of Representatives however soon found himself on the wrong side of a conflict between John Gotti and a rival and was killed in 1986.

## War in Afghanistan

*See also: Soviet-Afghan War*

On December 24, 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan with the goal of propping up the failing communist regime there. They found themselves engaged in a guerrilla war against Afghan Mujahideen. Upon hearing of the invasion, the young Tom Nook went to Pakistan to make contact with the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, while he contacted his father, encouraging him to contact family friend and president Jimmy Carter. Upon making contact with the Mujahideen in 1982, Nook became a unofficial attaché to the Afghan Mujahideen, opening communications between the Mujahideen and the United States. Nook met with Ronald Reagan in 1983, and was appointed by Reagan to oversee the deployment of munitions to the Mujahideen in 1985. Nook was in turn paid by the Mujahideen and Pakistani government, quickly becoming one of the richest people in Pakistan. He met with Osama bin Laden in 1986, however was dismissed from his position in Afghanistan by new president George H. W. Bush on January 24, 1989 and extradited from Pakistan to the United States to face trial for money laundering. Not long later, Soviet forces withdrew from Afghanistan, ending the Soviet war in Afghanistan and starting the First Afghan Civil War.

## Yugoslavia

### Escape from US custody, arrival in Yugoslavia

On January 30, 1989, the ship carrying Tom Nook back to the United States to face trial docked for refueling in Muscat, the capital of Oman. Nook managed to quietly escape off the boat, traveling on horseback and with local militias until he reached Alexandria, Egypt, where he chartered a boat to Varna, in Bulgaria. He arrived in Bulgaria to a unstable situation, however remained laying low until he reached Yugoslavia on October 3 of that year. He retired to private life with over $70 million to his name upon arrival in Yugoslavia, and remained in private life until the disintegration of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.

### Republika Srpska: Presidency of Radovan Karadžić

*See also: Radovan Karadžić*

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