Mojang Asdain

Mojang Asdain - famed facist and dictator - was the key figure of The Great Faringway War and leader of fascist group, The LIGMA Party, along with Listian Inicdian. Mojang Asdain is most commonly known as the former dictator of Faringway, ruling from 1956-1965.

## Early Life

Mojang Asdain was born in 1923 to Gertru and Milem Asdain, who had very strong Nationalist beliefs. Mojang was raised with a very right-wing mindset, and kept this ideology into his later life. Gertru was part of an extreme terrorist group called the 'Faringway Nationalist Party' (FNP). The group of FNP was highly scrutinized due to inaccuracy and lack of coordination. Its leader, Ferris Lorganhower was highly problematic, and was imprisoned for murder and rape charges, before the FNP was taken down by Faringway Police. Gertru attempted to kill himself during a police shootout: this ended in him permanently damaging his hearing. Gertru was then placed on death-row, until he revealed the names of some officials in the FNP. Unfortunately, he was murdered in his jail cell the following day.

Mojang's mother, Milem Asdain was suspected to be a member of the FNP, so the Asdain household was watched very closely. Records still exist of President Pan Pocket asking for the Asdain household to be observed by his secret police.

## Career

Despite Mojang Asdain witnessing what happened to his father, he still went out of his way to meet and organise rallies with a Nationalist hero of his, Listian Inicdian. Listian Inicdian was a history professor in Faringway, who had written thousands of essays on Nationalist ideals and how the world could benefit from them. It wasn't until Mojang Asdain approached him, in 1945, that Inicdain held public rallies. Mojang convinced Inicdain to preach his Nationalist ideology to the people. After both Mojang and Inicdian had been arrested, they gained even more attraction and they set up the 'LIGMA Party'. They were seen as rebellious and daring. But, it wouldn't be until 1949 that they would become truly popular.

In 1952, Listian Inicdian died of dysentery. This caused LIGMA's public image and popularity to sink, but with the spiking of conflict, a rebellious hero is needed (Paige Punishment).

## Before the War

After the Paige Punishment had been enacted, Mojang was furious. He rallied the LIGMA Party and protested this decision, calling it weak. Mojang believed that the bravest thing to do would of have been to fight Ariel. He truly believed Faringway stood a chance (Mojang also suggested many times that Faringway should invade Redding). The LIGMA Party, and more importantly, Mojang Asdain were so effective in rallying people to the cause that even members of the Faringway parliament supported Mojang, rather than the president they worked for (President Walter Walson). Despite Walson's logical and effective strategy for overcoming the Great Famine, which was sweeping Faringway due to the Paige Punishment, Mojang's method of diverting all funds into the military was far more popular. Due to this, the people stopped listening to Walson's Baker Bill. Walson knew that in the upcoming election, Mojang would win, so he tried to let the flaws of Mojang shine through, by passing most of his unsuccessful plans. But, people didn't see this as Mojang being weak, it was seen as Walson being weak. Walson then retired.

Once Walter Walson had resigned, an election was called (2 months early). Mojang won the election with a landslide victory, considering he already had control of the country. Mojang instantly focused funding on the military - increasing taxes dramatically. He began talks with Alberat and managed to squeeze an alliance. Alberat loaned them $400,000 due to Mojang's promise of Ariel's downfall (Alberat planned to be the silent killer of Ariel, so at the 'inevitable' downfall of Ariel, they would come out on top).

Mojang spent the loan on more military funding. Despite Mojang promising war towards Faringway, he decided to hold off - instead focusing his military on how to tactically gain food supplies. Mojang figured that if he were feared or respected, when he stole from other countries, they would let it slide. If Faringway were superior, then if other nations tried to act against them, Faringway could do what Ariel did and demand an outrageous punishment. And they could not refuse, due the fact that Faringway is far more powerful This tactic was known as the 'Price-Trap' - first created by Obliski when he used it against Faringway in 1949).

In order to act upon Price-Trap, Mojang first had to put his citizens through hell - forcing many citizens to sell their homes, in order to pay tax. He also started taxing people for not having citizenship, forcing foriegners to pay for the right to live in Faringway, which created an large amount of racism and segregation between people. He also barred foriegners from leaving, unless they stated an intent to return. A majority of the Faringway people were torn between being extremely unhappy and poor; or joining the army, where they would be fed the bare minimum. This encouraged thousands more to enlist. By 1958, 84% of men between the ages of 18 and 60 were in the army. When people highlighted the fact that a majority of women were dying (due the fact they couldn't join the army or get sustainable jobs) - Mojang introduced the 'Mamma's Law'. It stated that the more children you had, the less taxes you would have to pay monthly. This caused the birth rate to skyrocket, resulting in more mouths to feed. Mojang introduced the 'Healthy-Amount Kit', a small amount of rations, said to be enough to get you through the day (although research later showed it wasn't enough). Mojang also introduced the 'Mamma's Law II', where the more children you had, the more rations you'd be gifted.

People were still highly optimistic about Mojang's plan, calling it the 'Struggle for the Steve', implying world domination. By 1955, Ariel had already ended the 'Paige Punishment'. Mojang had made his mark, and it wasn't going away. He forced Faringway into a far worse famine than the 'Paige Punishment' years. Many figured that if they had just repeated Walson's 'Baker's Bill' the next year they would've resolved the famine.

Mojang planned on stopping any international trade between Redding and Alberat, considering the route is visible from Faringway. Mojang had attempted to force Propaganda out, giving the impression that Faringway was extremely strong. He hoped Redding and Alberat would back-down pretty easily. On 3 seperate occasions, Faringway successfully stole a large amount of cargo en route to Alberat, from Redding. With that, plus their own supply, they were set for at least a season or two. This wasn't good enough for Mojang, so he did it once more. But then he was a warned that Insomnia Central - Alberat & Redding's ally - would get involved.

Mojang realised that war was good for Faringway. They had reason to be entirely impoverished, and they'd get to use the military that they'd spent all their money on. So Faringway, took their last assault very seriously - left nothing, stealing countless numbers of rations. They calculated that if they continued rationing the food they had collected, they could keep rationing for 3 years. There was no response after that assault, so Mojang shrugged it off and did it again. At that point Insomnia Central put its foot down and declared war.

## The Great Faringway War (Mojang's Battles)

### Redding Invasion

On 3rd of Arjun 1960, Mojang Asdian ordered thousands of men into Redding. Redding's resistance was futile, as they had never previously expected war - focusing on agriculture. Turnbull found this infiltration highly unexpected (bearing in mind the invasion started at 05:00). By 10:00, they had stormed the entirety of Turkinton and the majority of Dermal. Turnbull had far too few troops sent to the border between Hoof and Dermal. The battle ended quickly and was an astronomical failure for Turnbull. The President of Redding, Sebastian Blue was taken 'hostage' during the battle. Mojang advanced through Hoof over the course of the next 2 days, resisted by some IC Soldiers and a few rallying citizens of Hoof. Once Mojang had taken South Hoof, he was able to swoop through Lin with relative ease. Mojang was then able to push the Insomnia Central soldiers into Suffont. When Mojang tried to attack, it was vastly unsuccessful, due to the amount of IC soldiers who were previously stationed there (IC Soldiers in Suffont were ordered not to leave under any circumstances).

By the end of the battle, Faringway occupied 93% of Redding. In 3 days, they had stolen thousands of crops from the locals, giving them nearly enough food for a 10 year ration supply. The fact that Mojang didn't occupy Suffont was infurating for him. There became a large no-man's land between Suffont and Hoof (as well as the border between Redding and IC). But as Suffont was right next to IC, they could filter in thousands of troops, and they had a plan of one day advancing.

### Suffont Beach

Mojang tried many tactics to gain Suffont beach: he tried air strikes, but they were shot down easily; he tried spies, they couldn't do much; he tried full invasions, but the IC Soldiers had far too great defences. Mojang knew exactly why they had such great defences - because of their untouchable friend in the seas, Wordsmith. Wordsmith specialised in engineering and technology, and were shipping thousands of mortars and guns straight across to Suffont Beach. Mojang had wanted to eliminate Wordsmith for a while, but he had no idea how without sea access (granted he did have a strip of beach at the South of Faringway, but it would involve either crossing Ariel or IC seas, or going all the way round the South Pole, which Faringway was not ready for). The only strategic place Mojang could use to destroy Wordsmith was Suffont Beach.

Meanwhile, Iain Turnbull was replaced with Heath Ercilla-Poole, who had a distinct plan. His plan was to exhaust the Faringway military, and then at the strike of the new year (1962), he would march thousands of troops into Hoof pushing them back into Lin, where they would be attacked from both sides, since Alberat would join. Then, they would push into Dermal, and set up defences in Hoof to insure Faringway reclaim it. Ercilla-Poole called it the 'Jock Plan'.

### The Upper Hand:

First, Mojang attempted to attack Redding, on 30th of Alice 1963. He failed miserably, but managed to set up a new line into Turkington. On 16th of Iain, he made his second attempt and managed to successfully occupy Turkington. He adopted a strategy called 'not destroying the city you occupy'. On the 10th of Heath 1963, they were pushed back into the border of Turkington. When finally, on 21st of William, they launched their most successful attack. Mojang managed to take back Turkington and regain about half of Dermal.

### The Agreement/The End:

After this attack, Mojang felt as though he had somewhat of an upper hand, so he proposed the following agreement: Redding would be divided amongst the nations of Alberat, Ariel, Faringway and IC. They also promised to set up churches for the Church of Nicolas. Whilst many found this deal completely irrational and unfair, considering the damage Faringway had caused, Ercilla-Poole respected Faringway and found the fact that they were willing to set up a Church of Nicolas very honourable. He accepted the deal on the 3rd of Dusty 1964.

## Death

After the war ended, Mojang was exceedingly unpopular, so he used his immense power to get rid of the election process, therefore allowing him to stay in power. He did very else from that point on. Faringway entered a great depression attempting to pay the debt they had accumulated. Mojang was assassinated by a extreme Nationalist, ironically named Gertru Loremore in 1965. This was after surviving 5 previous assassination attempts. He was succeeded by Mannis Morton.