Miller's Scandal (1933)

## Miller's Scandal

### Causes

~ Political instability in Garecia~ Rise of extremist ideologies across the world

### Outcome

~ Second Garecian Civil War~ Further instability in Garecia~ Millions of Garecian dollars in infrastructure damage~ Collapse of the Garecian Future Party

## **Background**

The Garecian Republic by the 1900s began facing difficulty as new ideologies coming in from Europe and Asia began to influence the population. As the Great War (1910-1918)  raged onwards between the Clacton Entente and the Professional Alliance, the senate grew divided on whether or not to get involved. In the meantime the country maintained trade with both sides of the war. However this changed in 1914 when the Lindoncian army committed acts of genocide in a small village in the Mrassian Empire. In response to the crime, the Garecian Republic cut trade relations between them and Lindonce and the rest of the Clacton Entente. This had a negative effect on the Garecian economy for the rest of the war.

When the Professional Alliance won the Great War by the summer of 1918, most of the Old World lay in shambles. The post-war fallout, the damaged economies of the nations involved, and veterans that were promised glory now having to return home to find their homes destroyed by modern warfare, led to political extremism to rise across the globe. In Western Europe, worker unions took up arms against their incompetent governments and formed syndicalist regimes in Lindonce, Briayon, and Chanboda, while in the East, the Communist ideology created by Karl Reitz, took control of the former Jayassian Empire with Viktor Polichev as its first president. In Southern Europe, fascism arose in the Kingdom of Matiland under fascist advocate Liborio Cirrito, soon triggering far-right wing revolutions in Kaneto, Stelegal, Gracada, and Brunak. However, one movement that remained in the shadows, unable to lead their own successful revolutions, were the futurists, led by global avant-garde art movements. Started by Lindoncian futurist, Hugo Jacquinot, the ideology of futurism and its sub-branches, promoted the idea of abolishing past traditions through speed, progress, violence, the abolishment of individuality, and hyper-industrialization, as well as including ultra-nationalistic and ultra-modernist ideas.

Hugo Jacquinot attempted to launch a coup in Clacton, Lindonce in 1919, but it was crushed by the army with help from the syndicalist worker unions. Jacquinot would later be arrested and later put to death by the army. While Jacquinot may have had his legacy cut short, his ideology would spread to inspire other radicals abroad. Particularly some in the young Garecian Republic.

## **Birth of a Lunatic**

Olivia Miller was born on May 29, 1902, to her middle class parents, Liam and Rebecca Miller. Growing up she was held under strict and harsh circumstances. Her father was incredibly cruel, and for most of Olivia’s early childhood, consisted of Liam Miller controlling almost every move. Liam was quick to anger and took it out either on his wife or young Olivia. Liam Miller was a major figure in the local church in the city of Hatchet. And since her father was nationalist, conservative, and heavily Christian, Olivia Miller grew a raging hatred towards those very things, blaming them for her suffering. She began to lose support and friends when she entered her later teenage years, making her feel even more miserable and spiteful. With all this pressure being stacked up upon her shoulders, the young woman descended into insanity. Her isolation led to depression, which led to drug addictions with LSD, meth, alcohol, and more. When  she turned 18-years-old in 1920, she was introduced to the recently formed Garecian Future Party (GFP), which held a similar view to her. The GFP hated tradition, and wanted to follow a path of revolutionary speed and progress by any means necessary. Those in the GFP sympathized with the young woman and the two began to get along. In 1922, she officially joined the party, but this move was heavily protested by both her mother and father. The two realized what the Future Party was capable of and demanded that Olivia withdraw from the faction or there would be consequences. Olivia refused, and to make sure she didn’t get in trouble with the state authorities, broke in and murdered both of her parents in the name of progress towards the future.

Over the course of the mid-1920s, Olivia Miller continued to climb the ranks of the GFP as she continued to carry out various tasks handed to her by the leaders of the party. However, with all her past trauma finally reaching a boiling point, she carried out her duties with fire and fury, which only increased her popularity among Garecian futurists. She began to grow more and more ambitious in her job. She began to escalate her attacks against opposing leaders in the democratic government, the workers unions, and far-right wing organizations. She wanted revenge against the traditional ideologies that wronged her throughout her entire life.

## **Miller's Power Hunger**

In 1931, the leader of the Garecian Future Party, Kolten Whitaker, died of a heart attack. In the following events to choose a successor to the faction’s leadership, support came in favor of Olivia Miller, who became the new leader of the GFP three weeks after the passing of Kolten Whitaker. After assuming leadership, Olivia took the futurist, accelerationist ideology up to an eleven. She began propagating a violent overthrow of the Garecian government, to create her vision of a civilized Western utopia. Attacks on opposing political leaders skyrocketed by 1932. However on June 12, 1933, Olivia Miller made the move to do something that no other Garecian accelerationist dared to attempt. Ms. Miller attempted to assassinate the incumbent president of the Garecian Republic, Scott Lane. The assassination was a failure, but she managed to escape. For the next two months from July to early August, Olivia and the GFP attempted to keep a low profile while continuing to try and undermine the republic’s stability. However this would be cut short.

On August 20th, 1933 at 10:49 at night, government hired assassin, Cody Ignash, broke into Ms. Miller’s home in Brookway, Willowston, and shot her in the forehead while she was asleep. Ending her legacy at just age 31. In the aftermath of Olivia’s death, the Garecian Future Party collapsed into several smaller branches claiming to be the true Future Party. While one threat to the republic had been dealt with… a new crisis would soon emerge… that would take twice as many lives. A civil war.