Eshter Morgan

**Eshter Heather Morgan** (April 17, 1899 - June 28, 1949) was a Libirachi politician and stateswoman who served as the fourth president of the Libirachi Empire between July 30, 1933 and June 28, 1949, and as the fourth vice president of the Libirachi Empire between 1925 and 1933. Between November 14, 1925 and March 1, 1945, Morgan was the chairwoman of the Libirachi National Congress; the role was initially tied to the office of vice president, but following the abolition of the vice presidency in 1933, the role became it's own distinct office.

Entering politics in 1925 with her appointment to the rank of Vice President of the Libirachi Empire, Eshter Morgan had only previously worked as an aide to President Ashford Longwood before taking up the role of head of government following the resignation of President Longwood's wife Jane from the role in 1925. Now thrust into a life of politics largely alien to her, Vice President Morgan began to grow in importance to the operation of the nation as President Longwood's health began to deteriorate in the 1930s. Tasked with leading the Libirachi National Congress, Eshter Morgan gained many valuable political allies and following the death of Longwood on July 30, 1933, Morgan was able to thrust herself to the office of President of the Libirachi Empire.

After a regal inauguration ceremony, Eshter Morgan quickly set about solidifying her position of power, dissolving ranks such as the Vice President and the Cabinet, placing her as the sole wielder of power in the nation. Taking over the reigns of the Libirachi Imperial Army, the ongoing Cold War with Bovido Has grew increasingly antagonistic as the Libirachi Empire began to cause boarder skirmishes during the 1930s, sending patrols over the Bovido boarders and claiming parts of their land to be Libirachi property, leading to all out fighting in 1938 and Bovido Archbishop and Emperor Caanan Ujung was quietly removed and replaced behind the scenes in the same year, leading to Matthew Aquilla taking up the mantle and pursuing a more peaceful solution, ceding land to the Libirachi Empire in 1942 with the Aquilla Accords and the establishing the Joash Boarder on mainland Asia, which at the time was the largest fortified land boarder in the world.

Having proven her mettle in the 1938 Libirachi-Bovido Boarder Skirmishes, President Eshter Morgan began to use her newfound political capital to embark on a socialist redistribution of wealth and land in 1940 under the proclamation of a "Cultural Revolution", causing open rebellion against the government under the leadership of chairman Xi Kanna, before being expelled from the Libirachi National Congress and exiled to the wilderness of Inner Mongolia, where the insurgents formed into a formidable fighting force, forcing the Libirachi Imperial Army to fight a war of attrition against their foes. Battered and bruised by 4 long years of war, the government of President Eshter Morgan cease to function and be dissolved by February 1949, with the Presidium being founded in March 1949 to act as a ruling council instead. In June 1949, Morgan was assassinated on the balcony of Tiananmen gate by a sniper team led personally by Chairman Xi Kanna, leaving the government in disarray and even further internal turmoil. Electing First Minister Jacob Zuma to the office of General Secretary of the Revolutionary Party in a meeting on the same day as Morgan's death, the party began to purge itself with Zuma at the helm they instead began to perpetuate the lie that Eshter Morgan had indeed survived the assassination attempt and was receiving medical treatment within the Forbidden City.

Eshter Morgan remains one of the most divisive leaders of the nation but is still generally remembered positively, and is generally ranked as one of the more popular Presidents to lead the Libirachi Empire. Following her death in 1949, Morgan still formally retained the title of President of the Libirachi Empire for nearly 6 months, making her the only leader to rule posthumously.

## History

Entering politics in 1925 with her appointment to the rank of Vice President of the Libirachi Empire, Eshter Morgan had only previously worked as an aide to President Ashford Longwood before taking up the role of head of government following the resignation of President Longwood's wife Jane from the role in 1925. Now thrust into a life of politics largely alien to her, Vice President Morgan began to cultivate her own political style as a loyal deputy to the most powerful man in Asia and would grow in importance to the operation of the nation as President Longwood's health began to deteriorate in the 1930s. Tasked with leading the Libirachi National Congress, Eshter Morgan gained many valuable political allies and following the death of Longwood on July 30, 1933, Morgan was able to thrust herself to the office of President of the Libirachi Empire.

## Presidency

 First Minister

After a regal inauguration ceremony, Eshter Morgan quickly set about solidifying her position of power, dissolving ranks such as the Vice President and the Cabinet, placing her as the sole wielder of power in the nation. Having appointed herself Protector of the Empire, she used the military to transform the country into a one-party state, killing hundreds of freedom of speech protesters in Tiananmen Square when she sent the military in to crush demonstrations. Taking over the reigns of the Libirachi Imperial Army, the ongoing Cold War with Bovido Has grew increasingly antagonistic as the Libirachi Empire began to cause boarder skirmishes during the 1930s, sending patrols over the Bovido boarders and claiming parts of their land to be Libirachi property, leading to all out fighting in 1938 and Bovido Archbishop and Emperor Caanan Ujung was quietly removed and replaced behind the scenes in the same year, leading to Matthew Aquilla taking up the mantle and pursuing a more peaceful solution, ceding land to the Libirachi Empire in 1942 and the establishing the Joash Boarder on mainland Asia, which at the time was the largest fortified land boarder in the world. Having proven her mettle in the 1938 Libirachi-Bovido Boarder Skirmishes, President Eshter Morgan began to use her newfound political capital to embark on a socialist redistribution of wealth and land in 1940 under the proclamation of a "Cultural Revolution", stripping vast parts of the federal system favoured by her predecessors and the nation's founders in favour of a more centralised governmental system, inadvertently throwing thousands across the nation into poverty as the chaotic centralisation of power saw those resistant to the plans being removed from office and thrown into holding camps for harbouring "anti revolutionary ideologies".

With as many as 1.2 million detainees being held in some form of holding camp, the government of Eshter Morgan began to find itself shorted by a lack of capable party members to govern the nation, and the Progressive Party gradually began to conduct insurgent warfare against the government under the leadership of party chairman Xi Kanna, using the party's membership of the National Front to hide it's actions; having their connection to rebel groups detected in 1944 following a foiled assassination attempt on First Minister Jacob Zuma, the Progressive party was expelled from the Libirachi National Congress and for the most part the political organs of the party were dissolved by the state, but with notable officials like Chairman Xi escaping the arms of the Imperial Army, the party was able to begin anew in the wilderness of Inner Mongolia, where the party formed into a formidable fighting force. Returning back to the forefront of Libirachi internal affairs in 1945 with the capture of an armed convoy headed for Beijing, the Progressive movement began to carry out guerrilla warfare against the state, forcing the Libirachi Imperial Army to fight a war of attrition against their foes, draining the resources and moral of the Libirachi soldiers in the process. Later the same year, a brutal prison riot at Imperial Holding Camp 456 led to the liquidation of the entire roster of detainees, including children, leading to outrage as the story began to make its way to the civilian population, and many joined up arms with the Progressives to topple the Morgan regime

Battered and bruised by 4 long years of war, the government of President Eshter Morgan cease to function and be dissolved by February 1949, with the Presidium being founded in March 1949 to act as a ruling council instead as the National Congress likewise began to resist Morgan's edicts and was forcefully closed on May 4, 1949. Eager to try and project her own personal power, President Morgan began holding large scale rallies in Beijing as the insurgents began to encircle the city, leading to a fateful speech on June 28, 1949 when Morgan was assassinated on the balcony of Tiananmen gate by a sniper team led personally by Chairman Xi Kanna, leaving the government in disarray and even further internal turmoil. Electing the young First Minister Jacob Zuma to the office of General Secretary of the Revolutionary Party in a closed door meeting on the same day as Morgan's death, the party began to purge itself in seeming preparation for self-exile, but with Zuma at the helm they instead began to perpetuate the lie that Eshter Morgan had indeed survived the assassination attempt, but was receiving medical treatment within the Forbidden City. This so-called "Great Lie" allowed the Zuma government to claim to act on the president's behalf and function as if they were her chosen deputies; indeed, the party even went to the effort to use heavily edited footage and drive around the president's personal train to attempt to show the president was alive and moving about. Despite governing for 7 months in the name of the assassinated president, the government of First Minister Jacob Zuma began to crumble as the insurgency encroached around Beijing, leading Zuma and his government to flee the capital and set up a rival government in the Libirachi mountains of Tibet. Capturing the capital city of the Libirachi Empire on February 13, 1950, Chairman Xi Kanna was inaugurated as the fourth President of the Libirachi Empire, formally ending the presidency of Eshter Morgan who still held the title legally, making her the only president to rule posthumously. First Minister Jacob Zuma would go on to form the Revolutionary Socialist party, and in 1970 the organisation seized power following the death of President Xi Kanna.

## Legacy

As the first female leader of the Libirachi Empire, Eshter Morgan left behind a colossal legacy for women's rights in the historically patriarchal Libirachi Empire, paving the way for future leaders like Laura Fox, Penny Fox and Karyn Voor to lead the nation in the 21st century. With the liberalising reforms of President Pearce Longwood before her, Morgan inherited a nation coming to terms with its old imperial legacy and set about on widespread political reforms across the nation, diminishing the roles of Vice President and the Cabinet in order to amass power around her in a move reminiscent of the powerful pollical goliaths of Stanford Rightly and Ashford Longwood, evoking the ideals of strongman politics that the Libirachi Empire is so based upon. Despite her official history being re-written over and over with each new era of Libirachi politics, the current Fox Dynasty regime of Empress Penny Fox regards Eshter Morgan as one of the most important heroes of the nation, with her legacy being taught as an essential part of Libirachi history, with her role of in the assent of Jacob Zuma being largely brushed over in order to paint Zuma as a fanatic maniac unrelated to Morgan's policies, many of which form the founding basis of New-Think, an ideology devised by Empress Penny Fox and Propaganda minister, and later president, Karyn Voor in the late 2020s and 2030s.