Jan Gryc

Born in 948 ACA Jan Gryc is widely considered to be the father of socialism in the United Commonwealth. Jan Gryc founded the National Agrarian Party after attempting a socialist revolution in 983 ACA. He would later go onto become an influential person in the history of the United Commonwealth as even after his death in 1045 ACA his works still inspire socialist thought within the region to this very day.

## Biography

### Early Life

Jan Gryc was born in 948 ACA to a wealthy family that took frequent vacations to various different parts of Eldham. One of these areas was the USSE. This caused him to spend a lot of time around socialist thought as a child and began to develop positive feelings toward it. At the age of 16 he would return to Zlatoport permanently as his parents retired and he would start working in a seaside tavern owned by Kbrew where he would feel as though he was being treated unfairly and not receiving enough money. This would culminate in him striking alongside several other bartenders. During the strike they would hold a protest right outside the tavern in which Gryc would reportedly start throwing rocks at the windows of the tavern which would lead to him getting fired from his job their and he would be jobless for the next 3 years.

### Young Adulthood

After being jobless for 3 years his parents would eventually die leaving him to inherit their wealth and home in Zlatoport. Jan Gryc would use this money to enroll at Zlatoport University where over the course of the next 6 years he would receive a degree in political science and talk to many other socialists within the country. By the time he graduated he had established himself as the leader in a nation wide network of socialists who all agreed on three things.

1. Socialism can only be achieved by taking control of the state in any peaceful means possible. What this really meant is that the workers must band together and create an army that will force the governments surrender while trying to shed as little blood as possible.
2. There two types of democracies. "False Democracies" in which the elites and noblemen control everything and it only looks democratic from afar and "True Democracies" in which the people actually have a voice and it behaves and feels democratic at every level.
3. The most important people to start a "Bloodless Revolution" with are the people who make your food. This gave the ideology a distinctly agrarian aspect.

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After graduating in 973 ACA Gryc would work as an oddball reporter for various different news organizations for the next 10 years all while spreading his influence among socialist circles. During this time he would meet Nada Cvetkovic who urged him to act as soon as soon as possible in forming a Korolian Socialist state. Gryc would ultimately disagree but began amassing arms just incase something went wrong as the network grew. This would make him more than a little bit trigger happy to revolt if something did go wrong.

### The Red Spring

Well sure enough something did go wrong. In the spring of 983 ACA a large series of socialist riots and protests broke out and there forefront was Nada Cvetkovic who was quickly arrested by the Novo Zemjian Police Force for mass vandalism. During the interrogation a combination of her giving up information and making bold threats let the authorities deduce that Jan Gryc was at the heart of the operation. Hearing this he immediately pulled the trigger on revolution and began distributing his small stockpile of weapons to some of the rioters. However he was quickly caught and put under custody of the police alongside Cvetkovic. Because no actual crimes had been committed besides for the vandalism they were quickly released with nothing more than a decent fine.

After this all was said and done they decided to properly organize the socialist network into the first political party. It would come to be known as the National Agrarian Party (NAP) or Narodna Rolnica Stranka (NRS). The first ever elections would be held 27 years later and the NAP would not even run due to them being unsure how the very conservative nation would handle socialism.

### Time in Politics

Jan Gryc and the rest of the NAP would fully enter national politics during the elections of 1009 in Nova Zjema where they would run and loose but due the Drugs Party being unable to give their second seat to another member of their own party the NAP would secure a seat. Jan Gryc would naturally be handed the seat for the NAP. During his Poslanecship Gry would attempt to pass a bill recognizing and protecting labor unions but that would be shot down. He would also successfully hold a national census.

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