Famous Figures of Furnifold

Royal Republic of Furnifold
Furnifold on Yasteria in The East Pacific
Region		The East Pacific
Capital		McLendal
Largest city		Boonefield
Demonym		Furnifoldian
Government		Centralized Republic
-	Magistrate Head of State and Foreign Government	Jacopo d'Arrigo
-	Chancellor Head of Domestic Government	Faith Jagan
-	Foreign Secretary	Jackson Woolf
Legislature		Senate
History
-	Founding	1778
Area
-	Total	170,800 km2 66,000 sq mi
Population
-	2015 estimate	16,000,000
-	Density	95/km2 246/sq mi
GDP (nominal)		estimate
-	Total	SHD$37.8 billione
-	Per capita	SHD$2,256
Gini (2015)		65 very high
Currency		South Hills Dollar (SHD)
Date format		dd ˘ mm ˘ yyyy
Drives on the		right
Calling code		816
ISO 3166 code		FUR
Internet TLD		.fur

Neve Amelia-Thomas

(Born 1970, McLendal, Furnifold) is a reporter for the New Furnifoldian Times. She is the chief political correspondent, and is also the granddaughter of pioneering reporter Helen Amelia. She got her start in the New Furnfioldian Times in 1995 after several stints covering local elections as a freelance journalist. In 1997, she covered the election of the first female Chancellor, Faith Jagan, and served for a time as Mrs Jagan’s spokesperson. After resigning her position, she returned to the newspaper in 2005. In 2011, she was chosen to be the chief political writer for the paper, and has retained the position ever since. Recently she has stayed into the editor's role, and serves a dual role of editing domestic issues and writing for the paper.

Jacopo d’Arrigo

(Born 1961, Acoco, Furnifold) is the current Magistrate of Furnifold, a position he has held since 2016. Before becoming the Magistrate, he was a renowned conservationist. He is most famous for his 2007 study on the flight patterns of birds. Using his base of operations on Lake Amery he was able to follow the migratory patterns of the Chonvor on his hang glider. This was well documented on Furnifold television, and catapulted Mr. d’Arrigo to national fame. In 2008 he proceeded to follow up with a run for political office. Touting his successes as a conservationist and an owner of a nonprofit, he won a seat to the Senate. He served until 2014, when he announced he would be running for Magistrate.

Possessing a charming demeanor and easily explainable ideas, as well as name recognition, he quickly made it to the top of the primaries, where he was nominated for the general election. Running against the incumbent, and another challenger Jackson Woolf, Mr. d’Arrigo did not have the support to overtake the incumbent, until he and Mr. Woolf worked out a deal. Running on a ticket, Mr. Woolf would become the Foreign Secretary if elected, and Mr. d’Arrigo would become the Magistrate. Because of this ticket strategy, Mr. d’Arrigo was victorious in the final election.

Mr. d’Arrigo represents those on the left-leaning social moderate side. He is moderate in foreign policy, recognizing that a strong military is key to a strong nation, but is not committed to being involved internationally without a very strong reason. He is also socially liberal, opposes abortion, drug, and marriage restrictions. He would be considered a progressive.

Adam Bly

(Born 1990, McLendal, Furnifold) is a reporter for the New Furnifoldian Times. He joined in 2015, and is a writer for the domestic and international sections of the paper. Known previously for his investigative journalism, he had to put that all aside to be put on the paper’s staff. Mr. Bly has been petitioning THE WATCHDOG group to admit his investigative abilities into their group, but has not been met with any success yet.

Artemis Gay

(Born 1987, Mana, Furnifold) is a table tennis player from the nation of Furnifold. Possessing dexterous footwork and a powerful penhold style, Gay rose to the top of Furnifold table tennis rankings in 2005 at the age of 18, the youngest player ever to do so, and thus beginning his 12 year international career. Gay moved onto the regional stage, where he was well known for his passion while competing, and his complete mellowness when outside of competition. After competing in the Yasteria Table Tennis Competition in 2009, and losing miserably in the opening round, he took a two-year hiatus from the sport to examine his playing style and passion for the game. In 2011, he returned suddenly to the Furnifold table tennis scene, again his play propelling to the top of Furnifold’s rankings. Retaining his passion for the sport, he entered international play once again, representing Furnifold as its only qualifying table tennis player in the WTTF Grand Tour. Notable wins: Height: 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) Weight: 75 kg (165 lb)

Faith Jagan

(Born 1947, Carson, Furnifold) is the current Chancellor of the Senate. She was the first female Chancellor of the Senate, a position she was first elected to in 1997, and one she has held ever since. Considered a stalwart in the Senate, Mrs. Jagan has presided over more Senate sessions than any other Chancellor in history. Mrs. Jagan began her life in Carson, Furnifold, a daughter of meatpackers. Moving south to Boonefield in 1963, she found work in the agricultural industry, where she was instrumental in getting female workers equal pay and time-off rights.

Realizing she could make more of a difference in politics, she ran for local government in 1966, but lost. Again, she ran in 1970, and this time she won a seat on Boonefield city council, bolstered in part by the strong support among females and married men. She worked towards giving the same rights she fought for in her previous job to those in all industries. After a scandal hit the central government in 1974, Mrs. Jagan resigned her seat on the council abruptly and ran for the Senate, promising to “clean up the muck surrounding McLendal.” Due to her immense popularity in Boonefield, she won the election, and was elected as the junior Senator of Boonefield. She served for one term, before a general election challenger was able to defeat her when she ran for reelection in 1980.

Due to this defeat, she started working for Manleh Cousins, in the Diversity and Inclusion department. Because of her hard work for the company, female hiring increased dramatically, and Manleh Cousins became the premier financial services company of Furnifold. Mrs. Jagan used her connections and her name recognition to run for Senate again, this time as the Senator for Woolf. She won the post in 1986, and has been a Senator ever since.

After toiling away on several subcommittees, Mrs. Jagan took the position on the Budgetary Committee of the Senate, where she worked with the Senate and the Magistrate in passing a balanced budget. She was a member of the famed “Gang of Five,” the group of Senators who ran budgetary policy in the late 80’s and early 90’s. She has since made it her goal as a Senator and now as a Chancellor to get a budget passed, and make sure the budget is fiscally sound. Her passion for the job and her strong will made her the likely candidate for Chancellor in 1997, once the previous Chancellor stepped down. She won the position with flying colors, and has ever since enjoyed immense popularity as Chancellor.

While originally more liberal, Mrs. Jagan has since become more conservative as her time in the Senate wore on. She believes that government should not instill the values of society, and instead hard working individuals should be the ones to do so. The government should merely act as a facilitator of such policies. Mrs Jagan is a fiscal conservative, and the only regulations she actively fights for are those that protect worker’s rights, women’s rights, and some environmental protections. She is largely socially moderate, authoritarian in some areas but libertarian in others.

Uche Markopolos

(Born 1982, Woolf, Furnifold) is a reporter for the New Furnifoldian Times. He joined in 2011, after previously working as a financial officer for Manleh Cousins, as well as writing for several business journals. Mr. Markopolos covers business for the paper, and is also known for running an online financial advice column, where he solicits information from economists and other experts on financial matters.

F.T. Morison

(Born 1973, Kwolek, Furnifold) is a reporter for the New Furnifoldian Times. He is a military correspondent for the paper. Previously he worked as an embedded reporter for an international news network. After his convoy was attacked in an ambush, he lost his right leg due to injuries, and retired from the network. He was picked up quickly by the paper in 2012. Mr. Morison dedicates much of his time as an advocate to troubled children, and instructs them on finding passion and overcoming adversity.

David Rezendes

(Born 1976, Chonvor City, Furnifold) is a reporter for the New Furnifoldian Times. He serves as the chief correspondent of THE WATCHDOG, an investigative journalism group within the New Furnifoldian Times. He is the leader of the group, and helps set the stories they cover, as well as serves as an editor. Mr. Rezendes has won acclaim at his position, one that he has held since 2007, and has received many awards for his investigative journalism. In 2006 he covered the Furnifold watchtower scandal, and was successful in implicating many officials of the magistrate’s administration attempting to cover up their tracks. Before this role, Mr. Rezendes worked for the paper as a copy editor, while also doing freelance journalism for online outlets. His big break came in 2002, when his work was read by the previous head of THE WATCHDOG and, unbeknownst to Mr. Rezendes, served as a test to see what investigative abilities he had. Mr. Rezendes was given a breadcrumb trail to follow, he successfully passed this “test” of sorts, and was admitted to THE WATCHDOG that year.

Gwen Scott

(Born 1991, Mana, Furnifold) is a sports reporter for the New Furnifoldian Times. She worked as a photojournalist for a sports outlet previously, but became embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal and was forced out of the position. She went over to the paper in 2016, and while the paper is not known for its sports section, she is attempting to put some more respectability into the section.

Jackson Woolf

(Born 1952, Woolf, Furnifold) is the great-great grandson of Norman Woolf, and is the current Foreign Secretary of Furnifold. He has held this position since 2016, when he originally ran for Magistrate but agreed to a coalition with Jacopo d’Arrigo in order to secure the military’s vote. In his early life Woolf was a serviceman for the Royal Navy, a Lieutenant. After leaving the service, he ran for Senate in 1984. Woolf was a member of the famed “Gang of Five,” the group of Senators who ran budgetary policy in the late 80’s and early 90’s. He retired from the Senate in 1996 to become the head of an NGO, and ever since has turned his eye towards international affairs. He briefly served as an ambassador in the early 2000s, and has since been involved in the Foreign Secretary’s office. In 2005 he became a Doctor of Political Science, and he wrote a book on international organizations in 2009, which became a bestseller. He taught for a time at the East Womp Military Academy in their Royal Defense Force War College, and his subjects were post-conflict resolution and recovery. In 2014, after releasing a memoir, he decided to run for Magistrate.

Mr. Woolf is described as a neo-liberal. His foreign policy philosophy focuses on cooperation and diplomacy through nonmilitary methods. When military has to be used, he focuses on attempting to limit the scale and scope of action, instead looking for targeted effects to cripple resolve and capacity quickly. Military is seen as a last resort, and Woolf is always attempting to “give peace a try,” as he always says.