Karen Sanders

**Karen Adia Sanders** (Sometime in 1967 - September 1, 2021) was a Persian politician and diplomat who served briefly as the sixth President of Persia between August 29, 2021 and her impeachment and removal on September 1, 2021, as well as temporarily holding the title of Supreme Leader of Obadiah Has between January 17, 2021 and mid 2021. She also served as the second prime minister of the Persian Republic between April 6, 2020 and August 29, 2021 during the Presidency of Ashton Morre and on an interim basis during her own presidency.

As a civil servant within the Bovido Hassian taxation service between 1985 and 1990, Karen Sanders began to join in with calls for Persian independence in the late 1990s and formally became president of an independence society based in Dubai in 1999. Working with Emirates Syli Dean and Emanuel Parra to push for an independent Persian state, Sanders' advocacy group earned her favour with Emirate Parra and in 2017, Sanders joined the management board of Persia Has; in 2018, Sanders was present for the proclamation of Persian independence and took up the post in Prime Minister Nicolas Burez's cabinet as the Minister of Defence between 2018 and 2020.

During the Hǔnluàn assault on the Persian Republic in early 2020, Defence Minister Karen Sanders helped lead plans to resist the invading forces but these ultimately proved futile and on April 4, President Emanuel Parra unexpectedly resigned from office and fled the nation, prompting several other members of cabinet such as Finance Minister Geena Kulmuni to do the same and join Parra in exile. Remaining in Nupersia alongside Prime Minister Nicolas Burez, Karen Sanders and the PM attempted to help smooth over the transition into Hǔnluàn rule and Sanders was present at the inauguration of terrorist leader Ashton Morre as president on April 5th 2020. Remaining in office as defence minister under the new regime, Karen Sanders was present at an April 6th meeting between President Morre and PM Burez and witnessed the execution of the Prime Minister at the hands of Morre; Sanders was appointed as Prime Minister in the aftermath. Following the execution of Prime Minister Nicolas Burez, Karen Sanders took up office as PM under the reign of President Ashton Morre and quickly began to cement herself within the leadership of the Hǔnluàn terrorist group in order to ensure her survival, becoming the leader of the group's political office in May 2020. Upon discovering the ties between the Hǔnluàn group and the Libirachi Empire's COMPNOR division, Prime Minister Sanders began to facilitate a shift towards strategic indifference to the Persian Republic's northern neighbour.

Sent on deployment to Obadiah Has in January 2021 to arrange a treaty with Supreme Leader Justus Obadiah, Karren Sanders and her Hǔnluàn forces conducted a coup d'état in the Bovido Hassian break-away nation and had the powers of the office of Supreme Leader invested in her as a result, leading Sanders to begin attempting to merge the office with that of Prime Minister of Persia before ultimately deciding against it as the Persian Republic came under increasing pressure internationally, and thus in May 2021 Sanders relinquished claim to the title and began to focus once more on her parliamentary duties, warning that in the aftermath of the Siege of Makassar, the Libirachi Empress Laura Fox would be likely to turn her focus on eradicating the terrorist stronghold across the Libirachi boarder. Having returned from an overseas trip in August 2021, Sanders arrived back to war in Nupersia as the Libirachi Empire invaded the nation, attacking and destroying government buildings across the Persian capital city. Having forced the Hǔnluàn out from their seat of power in the Nupersia Capitol building into smaller buildings, President Ashton Morre began ordering strategic retreats back into the centre of the city. After a bombing raid on the acting capital building in central Nupersia, the President was evacuated but his transport was intercepted by Libirachi commandos and detonated, apparently leaving President Morre dead, although it was never confirmed. With the loss of their leader, the Persian congress appointed Morre's Prime Minister Karen Sanders to the presidency, although she was quickly toppled and replaced with exiled Libirachi politician Almac Docu.

## History

As a civil servant within the Bovido Hassian taxation service between 1985 and 1990, Karen Sanders began to join in with calls for Persian independence in the late 1990s and formally became president of an independence society based in Dubai in 1999. Working with Emirates Syli Dean and Emanuel Parra to push for an independent Persian state, Sanders' advocacy group earned her favour with Emirate Parra and in 2017, Sanders joined the management board of Persia Has; in 2018, Sanders was present for the proclamation of Persian independence and took up the post in Prime Minister Nicolas Burez's cabinet as the Minister of Defence between 2018 and 2020. As one of the main leaders of the Progressive party, Sanders began to lead efforts to construct a new Persian defence force, whilst also enforcing security on the streets with the police forces inherited from the Bovido government; the use of martial law in early 2018 gained controversy but ultimately led to the implementation of a new constitution and the creation of the Persian Congress, in which Sanders won election to in the 2018 general election.

During the Hǔnluàn assault on the Persian Republic in early 2020, Defence Minister Karen Sanders helped lead plans to resist the invading forces but these ultimately proved futile and on April 4, President Emanuel Parra unexpectedly resigned from office and fled the nation, prompting several other members of cabinet such as Finance Minister Geena Kulmuni to do the same and join Parra in exile. Remaining in Nupersia alongside Prime Minister Nicolas Burez, Karen Sanders and the PM attempted to help smooth over the transition into Hǔnluàn rule and Sanders was present at the inauguration of terrorist leader Ashton Morre as president on April 5th 2020. Remaining in office as defence minister under the new regime, Karen Sanders was present at an April 6th meeting between President Morre and PM Burez and witnessed the execution of the Prime Minister at the hands of Morre; Sanders was appointed as Prime Minister in the aftermath.

## Premiership

 President
 Election

Following the execution of Prime Minister Nicolas Burez, Karen Sanders took up office as PM under the reign of President Ashton Morre and quickly began to cement herself within the leadership of the Hǔnluàn terrorist group in order to ensure her survival, becoming the leader of the group's political office in May 2020. Upon discovering the ties between the Hǔnluàn group and the Libirachi Empire's COMPNOR division, Prime Minister Sanders began to facilitate a shift towards strategic indifference to the Persian Republic's northern neighbour. With the appointment of new members of the Persian congress following the dissolution of the body during the interim presidency of Nicolas Burez, PM Sanders began to legislate to integrate Hǔnluàn control over the nation into the constitution and formally transform the nation into an one-party state, syphoning control away from the Persian Congress and into the presidency, whilst simultaneously passing acts which repealed gun laws and dissolved local armed forces and police groups, forcing parts of the nation into anarchy whilst the terrorist group in charge continued to plunder and steal from its citizens thanks to Hǔnluàn militia groups which roamed the nation.

Sent on deployment to Obadiah Has in January 2021 to arrange a treaty with Supreme Leader Justus Obadiah, Karren Sanders and her Hǔnluàn forces conducted a coup d'état in the Bovido Hassian break-away nation and had the powers of the office of Supreme Leader invested in her as a result, leading Sanders to begin attempting to merge the office with that of Prime Minister of Persia before ultimately deciding against it as the Persian Republic came under increasing pressure internationally, and thus in May 2021 Sanders relinquished claim to the title and began to focus once more on her parliamentary duties, warning that in the aftermath of the Siege of Makassar, the Libirachi Empress Laura Fox would be likely to turn her focus on eradicating the terrorist stronghold across the Libirachi boarder. Having returned from an overseas trip in August 2021, Sanders arrived back to war in Nupersia as the Libirachi Empire invaded the nation, attacking and destroying government buildings across the Persian capital city. Having forced the Hǔnluàn out from their seat of power in the Nupersia Capitol building into smaller buildings, President Ashton Morre began ordering strategic retreats back into the centre of the city. After a bombing raid on the acting capital building in central Nupersia, the President was evacuated but his transport was intercepted by Libirachi commandos and detonated, apparently leaving President Morre dead, although it was never confirmed. With the loss of their leader, the Persian congress appointed Morre's Prime Minister Karen Sanders to the presidency.

## Presidency

 Election
 Prime Minister

Following the apparent death of President Ashton Morre on August 29, 2021, PM Karen Sanders was inaugurated as President of Persia at the behest of the Hǔnluàn controlled Persian Congress on the same day, retaining the title of Prime Minister de-jure whilst attempting to run the nation as President. Having also taken over leadership over the Hǔnluàn, Sanders' new regime began efforts to rebrand itself as a democratic system within the constitution of the Persian Republic, and on August 30, President Sanders dismissed all members of the Persian Congress and reinstated all members-in-exile to their posts as senators in an attempt to show the democratic nature of the government - however on August 31, 2021, the new members of congress unanimously passed an impeachment resolution effective at midnight the same day, and held the 2021 Persian Presidential Election to select a replacement, electing Almac Docu to the office. Now removed formally from her office, Sanders was also deposed as leader of the Hǔnluàn on September 1 by Anton Ivanov and as the Libirachi Empire captured the city on September 1, Karen Sanders was reported as dead by numerous journalistic sources and both Libirachi and Persian governments regard Karen Sanders as having died on September 1, 2021, although the nature of her death is unclear, with some believing her to have died at the hands of Ivanov's Hǔnluàn forces and others suspect that Libirachi General Chen Wei had her executed upon finding that Sanders had been impeached as president, and thus her surrender would be meaningless.