Jakkonia

*For Jakkonia's in-character nation, see New Pretannia.*

## *The Honorable*

Jakkonia

> "If you don't vote for the resolution at vote, whomever is reading this, Pret will send you unsolicited hand-colored electoral maps in the mail for 3 years."
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> - Karteria, regarding GAR55
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**Jakkonia**, also known under the Discord name of **Pretannia** or **Pret** (for short) is a citizen of the New West Indies. They served as the 2nd Director of the Press Corps, 1st Deputy Director of the Press Corps, a Roleplay Committee Member. They are also a Broadcaster, owning the channel #Pretography, and a Co-Anchor at #Anarchist Analysing.

Under newly elected Secretary-General Central Birdland, Pret was inaugurated as the 6th Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SFA) on July 1, 2021.

## Press Corps

### Deputy Director

Pretannia joined the region with the invitation of New Spiedska and gradually became more recognized in the region, eventually securing a job under Press Director Celestiam as Deputy Director of the Press Corps on June 11, 2020.

### Director

As Celestiam rose to become the region's 5th Secretary-General, Pretannia was quickly elevated to the position of Director of the Press Corps and was approved by the Executive Compliance Committee on July 9, 2020. Under Pretannia's control over the Press Corps came the growth of independent broadcasting channels and private media within the New West Indies. Pretannia would continue to work as the regions Press Director after Celestiam left office under Secretary-General Ventus Prime. Pret's term as Director of the Press Corps would end on June 30th 2021.

## Private Media

Pretannia would also begin to work with The Anarchist Communist on his channel "Anarchist Analyzing" as a co-host. They would also begin his own personal channel, known as #Pretography, to showcase maps made by himself and others in the region, along with maps of events and other things cartography related he finds interesting.

## Roleplay Committee

In December 2020, Jakkonia would also officially join the Roleplay Committee to help the region moderate its growing community of roleplayers. While in the Roleplay Committee Pretannia would support GAR #53 which gave the Roleplay Committee official government status in the region.

## Secretary of Foreign Affairs

*This section deals with an ongoing or unfinished event.*

Pretannia joined Central Birdland's ticket for the June 2021 Secretary General election. In this time, he began planning his potential tenure as Secretary of Foreign Affairs and create plan to try and revamp the Department of Foreign Affairs to become more active across NationStates. Pretannia would also become involved on New Sistonia's ticket as well in the same position. Pretannia would make transparency and change a cornerstone of his term as Secretary of Foreign Affairs and has plans to revamp the regional embassy policy and more.

After being elected, Pret began immediately building the first Embassy List, a method of better organizing the regions the New West Indies holds relations with to asses whether or not to close certain embassies. The Embassy List is updated monthly and is part of an effort by the SFA to better organize the Department of Foreign Affairs.

## Miscellaneous

Pretannia is known on the discord server for his continuous stream of maps depicting alternate historical scenarios, elections in fictional nations, and future maps. He is also known for the common joke of "being center right" when in fact this is not true.

## References

1. ↑ Appointment Announcement
2. ↑ Embassy List Announcement.