Jean Maximo

**Jean Eric Maximo** (August 14, 1969 - October 9, 2042) was a Morranian solider and politician who was briefly one of the three joint holders of the presidency of Morra between August 17, 2024 and September 4, 2024. Additionally, Maximo held office as secretary of state for defence between January 2023 and August 2024. Following the 2024 coup d'état, Jean Maximo served in the National Assembly between October 2025 and March 2029, when he was arrested by the government and sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in toppling a democratically elected government.

Born in August 1969 in the town of Ypres as the son of the famed Dunsteenian general Charles Maximo, Jean Maximo graduated from the Paris Military Academy in 1993 and entered the Dunsteenian armed forces at the rank of lieutenant the same year. During his time in the Dunsteenian armed forces, Maximo gradually climbed through the ranks, becoming a major in 2003, a commandant in 2008, and a general in 2013. In 2018, Jean Maximo became affiliated with Werner Reinheart, a senior EuroCorp executive and advocate for Morranian independence - the pair's connection was publicly revealed in August 2021, causing significant scandal within Dunsteenian politics, which led to Maximo's dismissal from the armed forces. Having been expelled from Dunsteenian military circles, Jean Maximo formally joined the Rebel Alliance and became the major general of the organisation in early 2022; during the Battle for Dunsteen, Major General Maximo led rebel forces to victory against the Republic of Dunsteen with the aid of EuroCorp and the Confederacy of Independent Nations. Upon the formation of the Transitional State of Dunsteen on October 13, 2022, Jean Maximo was appointed as one of three joint heads of military command by secretary of state for defence Ernst van Darmin, and the group collectively oversaw the beginning of the planned transition from active militia groups into a battle ready armed forces.

After the inauguration of Jean Luc Melenchon as president of Morra on January 20, 2023, Jean Maximo was appointed as secretary of state for defence as President Melenchon sought to depoliticise the Ministry of Defence and establish the armed forces as a neutral entity loyal to the state. In August 2023 the Transitional State of Dunsteen attempted to withdraw from a partnership with the Confederacy of Independent Nations (CIN), resulting in CIN president Almac Docu providing billions of dollars worth of financial support to EuroCorp in exchange for the organisation organising a take-over of the Transitional State. As secretary of state for defence, Major General Jean Maximo was one of the primary recipients of EuroCorp's bribery drive and ultimately threw his support behind the coup movement. As such, on August 17, 2023 the armed forces launched a coup d'état against President Jean Luc Melenchon with the intention of forcing him to resign from office; following Melenchon's reputed refusal to resign from the presidency, the armed forced bombed the presidential palace, killing Melenchon, and seized power within the Transitional State of Dunsteen. Having toppled President Melenchon, defence secretary Maximo joined with Simone Alderhard and Emanuele Luanne of the National Defence Forces to form a Transitional Junta; as one of the first acts of the new transitional junta, the triumvirate of military leaders bypassed Vice President Marine Le Pen and seized all presidential power in the state, consolidating power within the framework of the junta. During the brief reign of the transitional junta, thousands of political opponents of the regime and it's EuroCorp backers were arrested and either executed or detained in prisons on indefinite sentences. At the same time, Melenchon's National Alliance political party was liquidated and dissolved under presidential decree, before a new constitutional amendment was added to the original 2022 charter to ban political parties and forums. On September 3, 2024, the junta enacted a new constitution to replace the heavily amended original charter, before collectively resigning on September 4th; following the junta's resignation, former president Werner Reinheart was designated as the organisation's chosen succession and was re-appointed to the presidency.

In October 2025, Jean Maximo was elected as a member of the National Assembly and resigned from the armed forces to join the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. Following the Morranian transition to democracy in February 2029, President Sunil Bakshi ordered the arrest and imprisonment of Maximo and all other members of the military junta for their role in the coup d'état, with Maximo receiving a 20 year prison sentence under the charge of high treason. Jean Maximo died in prison aged 73 on October 9, 2042 and received a private burial in Flanders.