Jan Warren

### Careers

SweatShopWorker, Unemployed, Penal Labor Foreman, Head of the Atlantian Prison association, Chief of Internal Security of UAS, President 1965 - 1975

## Political Views

### Ideology

Democratic, Corporatist, Political Catholicism, Capitalism, Statism,

## Early Life

Jan Warren was born in 1914 to a deeply devout Roman Catholic family in Chaprasz. Jan Warren’s Father (Stohl Warren) was a veteran of the war of independence and now fought against Chairman Albert’s Communist government by collaborating with the American government. Jan Warren’s family was extremely poor and reportedly sent Jan to work in a textile mill where he lost his left index finger and was nearly decapitated as the machine pulled him underneath, but he was pulled out by the foreman who was on duty that day.

After the Communist government was overthrown, Jan’s situation worsened as his father was discharged from his post as a soldier as the government no longer needed as many military personnel, and his mother died of Cholera. He also lost his job at the textile mill as it was no longer subsidized by the Communist government, this meant that the family effectively had no income. Stohl Warren reportedly attempted to kill Jan so he wouldn’t have to feed him, Stohl died 8 months later of an unknown disease Leaving Jan effectively orphaned. Jan did not blame his father who he says was not in his right mind.

Jan found himself with little to do but scrounge for food and began to romanticize his days in the textile mill. It is believed that he is short because he was stunted due to undernourishment during this period of his life. He eventually had to resort to stealing food in the view of policemen to get put in prison so he would be fed. In 1923 Jan was incarcerated and sentenced to 5 months of labor-intensive ship-building. It is during this time that Vernon Manderov came to power and increased the number of incarcerated persons three-fold. This created a sudden influx of prisoners which was unmanageable by the current staff.

Subsequently, Jan Warren, who had already had his sentence shortened due to exceptionally good behavior,  was promoted to the position of shipyard foreman. He later said of this period in his life:

“From the point I was put in prison, I became determined to never sink to those terrible lows ever again. I knew the thing that I needed most was work, a way to work. Everything had stopped the second the labor had ended. I came to view this as a simple rule of life, the ability to work and using it to labor long and hard is how people are lifted out of the despair I felt.”

## Work as a Penal Labor Foreman and Chief of Internal Security

Jan Warren worked the prisoners longer and harder than all the foremen before him, he also asked for more food to feed the prisoners he was charged to look after. He came to view the prisoners as a new family. Jan was eventually promoted rapidly, by 1936 becoming the head of all the prisoners. Jan was notoriously strict and saw reductions in murders in prisons. He also approached Vernon Manderov in 1936 and made a special request of Manderov to increase rations to prisons. He reportedly begged so humbly and with such passion and skill that the normally marshal and austere Manderov cried out of compassion for the conditions in the prisons which Jan described. Manderov increased rations to the prisons the next day and gave Jan more authority over how they were run. Jan proceeded to improve the quality of living in the prisons but also imposed strict rules and increased working hours in the prisons. In 1940, Jan was deployed to France to assist in the occupation of France by Nazi Germany. He was assigned the task of rounding up Jews to send to Germany. Immediately, Jan was deeply suspicious. These suspicions were partly confirmed when he was sent to supervise a camp in Nazi Germany.

He never spoke of what he saw, but whatever it was it provoked him to mutiny the second he got back to France. He shot the SS escort assigned to him in the face and proceeded to flee to the UK.

## Collaboration with Allied Occupation

Shortly afterwards, Jan was allowed to return to UAS as Vernon Manderov’s government (who he had just betrayed) had been overthrown by the Allies. He returned and collaborated with the Allies in their occupation of UAS. He was quickly viewed as a useful asset, as he knew many criminals and could assist in incarcerating them. He also was described as “incredibly industrious, extremely hard-working, and deadly ambitious” by Winston Churchill, who briefly met with him in 1946.

Jan was put in charge of internal security, he succeeded in suppressing several rebellions by communist militants in Chaprasz and Zhaprisnk, while also successfully thwarting an attempt by Vernon Manderov to return to the country and spark a coup de tat.

Jan worked 12 hours a day on most days, and rarely spoke to people throughout his careers, subsequently we do not have many of his personal ideological opinions, unlike Eva Bronauski who wrote down her stance in great detail. Jan was said to have been very cautious, and cut-throat taking any opportunity to advance his own status even if it meant turning on his friends. This was demonstrated when in 1947 he backed out of his promise to support his cousin Harult Warren in her bid for the presidency. During his time as the head of internal security, he became acquainted with several prominent military leaders and corporate executives who he regularly had to negotiate with. He realized very quickly that to improve the country, he had to work with the powerful people in the country to get anything done. He consequently set up the labor council in 1949 in order to foster cooperation between Corporations, security forces, and the populace at large and prevent the monetary exchange from taking back door routes.

Warren of course had not forgotten his past and knew that large portions of the population would share in starvation if he did not act. He began to position himself as a leader for the post-occupation era ostensibly so he could make reforms and help lift people out of poverty.

The occupation ended, but Jan ended up being unable to pursue a political career due to his association with the occupation which proved deeply unpopular, especially after WW2 had ended. Jan was nonetheless appointed by the next administration to be in charge of internal security as Jan was actually the most senior official in the armed forces at the time, largely because he had not been relieved of duty by Manderov, or the occupation at any point.

## Political Career

It is at this point that Jan headed the Labor Council and the Internal Security service simultaneously. This allowed him to gain experience with economic policy and social policy at the same time. He passed a series of economically liberalizing reforms in the hope that they would produce more jobs. These reforms were not tested, however, as Howard Kuslauskus was placed at the helm of the government as a result of a coup that occurred in 1952. Howard was said to have come very close to ordering the execution of Jan but was persuaded to do otherwise by members of the military who had known Jan in person due to their time spent in the Labor Council.

Jan at this point is often considered to have been the best-connected government employee in the country at the time. And this was what made him effectively immune to firing or re-deployment. Some notes were found in Jan’s vault in 1999 which stated that under Howard’s Supervision Jan actually wrote of plots to overthrow him in a coup in 1953 and 1957 but concluded that these would be costly and would likely cause further instability and worsen the situation of the country.

Jan also attended and was a member of the Roman Catholic Church and gave money to charitable organizations which funneled money to organizations that opposed Howard in secret.

In 1960, Howard Senior was forced to resign and fled to the USA. Jan quickly turned on his colleagues and immediately arrested members of the military who Jan knew had committed serious human rights abuses. He turned them over to the public, many of these people were injured by mobs one was killed. By doing this Jan had dissociated himself from Howard’s administration. Jan did not however reveal that he had given money to the Roman Catholic Church which was funneled to oppose Howard and did not publicize his coup plots.

He laid out an easily accessible economic plan to improve the country which appeared to resemble 1950s Japan’s economic plan. It included 5 year plans to grow the textile industry, and shipbuilding industry both of which Jan had worked in at different points. It also involved de-regulating working hours and helping businesses grow.

Jan was narrowly beaten by Eva who operated on a more appealing populist platform. Jan initially resented Eva for beating him, but by 1963 had met with Eva in private to apologize to her for speaking out against her in public insisting that after seeing the good work she had done developing the country and lifting people out of poverty, now supported her platform and would work thenceforth on a platform of co-operation.

## Presidency

In 1965, Jan was voted in with a majority and proceeded to implement the first five-year plan, this five-year plan produced the fastest and strongest economic growth in the nation’s history, as millions became employed in higher-wage jobs and foreign investment flooded into the country and exports sky rocketed, however this five year plan also lead to what Jan’s critics call: abuses of worker’s rights. Including high rates of industrial accidents and many people showing symptoms of being seriously overworked. He also increased conscription rates and continued to support South Vietnam and Laos (but more covertly) in order to normalize UAS’s relationship with the USA. During his reign corporations ballooned in size and continue to generate most of the nation’s wealth to this day. UAS is generally regarded as a business-friendly country because of Jan.

Jan’s economic strategy was markedly different from Eva’s in that it relied on fostering Industrial growth while Eva’s relied on educational specialization, both of these policies put together resulted in long-term growth in UAS. Jan’s approval rating today is either first or second-highest, depending on the poll, of any leader in UAS, he enjoyed and still enjoys his greatest level of support from Gottheim, which is deeply collectivist and overwhelmingly Roman Catholic. It also benefited the most from his economic reforms, it was of course the site on which many of the textile mills were constructed.

In 1969 Jan met with a woman called Yiera Vertsen, she became Jan’s only mistress. He later went to his local priest and confessed that he had sinned and had participated in an affair with someone, the priest turned out to have been paid by reporters to spy on Jan. Soon enough, the public had found out and Jan had become unelectable. He publicly announced that he would get married to Yiera, which he did, and that he had sinned grievously and asked the people for forgiveness.

## Later life and legacy

He was voted out in 1970, but retained his position on the Labor Council. He went on to serve as the Minister for Internal Security during the second civil war, during which he called for the New Order League (C) to cooperate with the New Order League (T), his calls for cooperation and his work countering partisan activities assisted in ending the civil war. Jan died shortly thereafter in 1975, found dead mid-prayer due to a stroke in front of an icon of the Virgin Mary. Yiera said that he had been very sad that day and had wanted to ask for forgiveness for unknown reasons.

Jan’s critics call him a hypocritical traitor, and a strict authoritarian who ignored inequality between islands. While his proponents praise his economic miracle, sometimes regarded as the strongest expansion in human history. In particular his provision of jobs for the poor is a policy that is universally popular. As of 2019, Jan is extremely popular, and depending on the poll is either first or second most popular politician in the Nation’s history.