Meet the Reps!™: the WA-ified Edition

[Cobdenistan]

Ambassador - His Excellency Sustripicipo Lumil


Age: 42
Birthplace: Parsarikar (formerly Port Sir Richard)
Family: Father was a well known anti-British, pro independence leader Bob Lumil, mother was a woman. No siblings
Education: Port Sir Richard University, degree in law
Employment: Worked as a lawyer for his own father, who was often imprisoned, before joining the movement himself when his father was killed by a faulty toaster.
Background: He spent many years in gaol due to his activities, which bordered on the terroristic, although he was released during the second world war on condition he join the army. After several weeks training he was involved on the front line, following the Japanese invasion of Cobdenia. Unfortunately for the British, he had defected to the opposing side, and fought amongst other anti-British Cobdenian's in the Cobdenian Nationalist Army. After the war, he was pardoned (but prohibited from serving in the Cobdenian Army), and became more involved in the independence movement, which now had a new sponsor in the form of the USSR, in a deal he himself had brokered. When Cobdenistan gained independence in 1953, he was made ambassador to the WA.
Fun fact: In two days of holding office, he had amassed over $230,000 in bribes
Politics: Anti-Imperialist
Titles: Current: His Excelleny the Representative to the World Assembly of the Peoples Republic of Cobdenistan
Responsibilities: Accumulating wealth whilst purporting to be Communsit, apparently
Interests: See responsibilities
Once said: Baksheesh!

[Gobbannaen WA Mission]

Ambassador - Permanent Undersecretary Cerys Coch

aka Cerys Goch (the Gobbannaeg can be lazy about mutation, especially when they've got an excuse like alliteration), Cerys the Red or Cerys verch Madoc ab Idris ap Gwilim ap Tomas if you want to be really formal.

Age: 40
Birthplace: Dinas Segontium
Family: born of upper-middle class parents, Cerys is the second of four children. Her much despised older brother has some kind of civil service job that involves close liaison with other nations in the region, the nature of which is annoyingly above Cerys's security clearance. Her younger brother rebelled and became a grocer, while the youngest sister is an army psychologist; Cerys gets on reasonably well with them in small doses.
Education: sports scholarship to the prestigious Caergrawnt college, where she got quite a reasonable degree in Gobbannaeg Literature for a rugger-bugger.
Employment: civil servant and retired rugby player.
Background: initially Cerys's civil service career was just a way to keep body and soul together while she played rugby. Successfully: she made the Segontium team for the Principalities Cup for several years at her peak. When she finally had to retire from first class rugby, she applied the same ruthlessness that had served her so well on the field to advancing in her actual career. Being able to physically intimidate the politicians she was theoretically taking orders from counted for a great deal. She was promoted to the post of Permanent Undersecretary for Gobbannium's former WA embassy in part because she stood some chance of keeping the Prince in line, and in part because it got her out of everyone else's way. When Gobbannium withdrew from the WA and set up the Mission to keep an eye on things, Cerys remained in charge of the bureaucracy. Since the politicians failed to agree on a political head, she has taken that over too.
Politics: never openly admitted, like the good civil servant she is, but Cerys is as unfluffy a liberal as they come. People need to be educated, assisted, and slapped round the face when they do something stupid.
Titles: She doesn't refer to herself as an ambassador. Technically in terms of the Mission she's the head of state of whatever office space she's managed to get assigned, so the distinction is a bit meaningless anyway. In Gobbannaen terms, she's still a Permanent Undersecretary.
Responsibilities: running the Mission, representing Gobbannium in the assembly, the usual diplomatic gubbins, and being sarcastic to idiots. As head of the Mission, she got to write her own job description, and she's particularly proud of that last bit.
Interests: rugby, beer, really good books, sex, and not suffering fools gladly. Anything else is just icing on the cake.
Once Said: "Don't make me hurt you, Your Highness."

Footnote: sports in Gobbannium are generally amateur, even the popular international ones.

[Omigodtheykilledkenny]

So, I can put you under "Gobbannium" instead of "Gobbannaen WA whatever"? Because that's what I'm doing. Aside: "Permanent Undersecretary" as in undersecretary of state, or what?

[Gobbannaen WA Mission]

Yes, you can put me under Gobbannium. "Permanent Undersecretary" is there in the "Sir Humphrey Appleby" sense: she's the senior civil servant in her ministry (well, principality, but you know what I mean), and she stays while the politicos come and go.

[SchutteGod]

Ambassador - Shemp Number Three



Age: 47
Birthplace: Shempville, SchutteGod
Family: Shemp's father Moe used to run Grisco Snack Foods company, which was enormously popular in SchutteGod until one tragic day when a British investor came to town to tour the Grisco factory. Moe and the investor got into a violent argument over the difference between "chips," "crisps," "crackers" and "cookies," when the investor finally pulled his pistol and shot Moe. The wound didn't kill him, but he sure didn't feel like running a stupid cracker factory anymore, so he sold the whole lot to a German beer company and hopped a boat for the Philippines. He hasn't been heard from since. Shemp's Mother Carmen is an international arms trafficker with a knack for escaping the authorities and a billion-dollar price tag on her head.
Education: M.A. in International Relations, University of Sandy Eggo, 1987
Employment: Shemp has been an employee of the foreign ministry since the 1989 revolution, first as an intern, then an assistant, then an analyst, then an assistant analyst (demotion after getting caught in the mailroom with a Polish hooker), then as the boytoy to a very sexy and man-hungry special envoy to Outer Micronesia, then as deputy foreign minister (nearly sacked after being blamed for negligence when the Quodite embassy burned down, and only cleared when the ministry remembered the Quodites don't even have an embassy in SchutteGod), then as UN ambassador, then as deputy foreign minister again, and finally as WA ambassador, from May to present.
Background: Shemp is on very good terms with Mrs. Schutte (as good as anyone can be on good terms with such an awful woman, at any rate), but is still kind of annoyed that she picked his colleague Shemp #4 as foreign minister in 2003, even though he outranks the minister by a whole Shemp.
Politics: Whatever Mrs. Schutte wants, she gets.
Titles: Ambassador
Responsibilities: Pretty much everything, since he's the only one the ministry could spare to staff the WA, until Mrs. Lee was finally appointed to assist him last week.
Interests: Following the Shempville Stealers, streaking at sports events, getting sloshed at the bar, playing darts, getting kicked in the nuts
Once said: "Good God! Did everyone take a stupid pill right before this vote was called or something?" --during the "debate" on "Ways and Means"

Secretary - Dora Lee



Age: 44
Birthplace: Lawrence Welk Village, up here in North Coun-tee!
Family: Has two evil stepsisters whom she never talks to, a bum of a brother who only shows up when he wants money, and a useless husband who got fired from his job as a taste-tester for a petrochemicals firm back in 2003 and hasn't been able to find work since. To support their two boys, Mrs. Lee was forced to find employment herself. Luckily Mrs. Schutte used to carpool her kids to school.
Education: Diploma from Central Lawrence Welk High School
Employment: A housewife until just a few years ago, Mrs. Lee was secretary to Shemp #5, who runs the propaganda ministry, from 2004 till just last week, when Foreign Minister Shemp #4 won her during the Shemps' weekly poker game, and assigned her to the nation's WA mission.
Background: A rather tightly-wound woman, Mrs. Lee demands punctuality from all visitors to Ambassador Shemp's office, canceling appointments for anyone just 30 seconds late. She has had the office suite's phone system rewired so that all incoming calls go to her phone, so she can record all conversations, and immediately disconnect callers who give her lip, anyone who would be a liability to the office, and any remaining Kennyites. She also insists that everyone address her as "Mrs. Lee," including her husband. Her elder son Sean, 18, still has nightmares about the time she found lubricant in his bedside drawer, immediately marched down to his school, stormed into his classroom, held it up for the entire class and demanded he explain himself. She hasn't had ample time to humiliate her other son.
Politics: Incredibly evil
Titles: Mrs. Lee
Responsibilities: Gatekeeper for the very popular Ambassador Shemp, telling office visitors to shove it
Interests: A devoted fascist and extreme religious fundamentalist, Mrs. Lee is a certified gun-nut who also does yoga.
Once said: "Couldn't find a date, eh?" --to a visitor to the office who had told her SchutteGod was nice, "except the women are a bit snobbish."

[Cookesland]

Ambassador - Richard York


NS Wikipage: http://www.nswiki.net/index.php?title=Richard_York
Age: 31
Birthplace: Born March 27, 1978 in Abricolae, Kohima Prefecture
Family: Benvolio (Father) Nathalie (Mother) the second child of Benvolio and Nathalie York, in Abricolae. He has two siblings, an brother, Ignotus, older than him by twenty months, the product of his father's first marriage to Marisa Algodel and a sister, Maria, his junior by two years. He is very close with his family even though he lives much farther away.
Education: University of Abricolae, Bexley School of Law
Employment: U.S. Department of State
Background: Coming from one of the country's prominent political families, he Coming from one of the country's prominent political families, he was exposed to politics at a very early age, his father serving as the mayor of Abricolae twice and then elected to the nation's parliament. Being very gifted with it was during this time he learned to speak English as well as several other languages such as French, Latika, and Nord-Brutlandese. He graduated from the University of Abricolae.
Not too long after, he had an accident while on a ship, causing him to become an amnesiac. After many odd events he washed up on the fair shores of Cookesland, where he was nursed back to health. With fortune's blessings he managed to come get his citizenship and came in contact with Cookeslandic Secretary of State, Steven Andolor, at the ceremony. The two became very good friends quickly. Due to his personality, demeanor, and the difficultly of finding ambassadors, he was first offered a job as a Consul in the city of Pecunia, Republic of ----Kenny----.
For a short while afterward he moved up to Ambassador when the position soon became open.With untimely death of Janvier Solana, he became the Permanent Representative to the United Nations. While at the UN he regained his memory and got back in contact with his family. He currently devotes his time between the World Assembly, his home in Coricas, and Yokaria. He currently is dating Ms. Carolina Entelbrucco of the Nord-Brutlandese WA Delegation.
Politics: Moderate
Titles: Representative of the United States of Cookesland to the World Assembly, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Responsibilities: Head of the Cookeslandic WA Mission, Stranger’s Bar Regular
Interests: Baseball
Once said: "You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish."

Deputy Ambassador - Fiore Acquerello


NSwiki page: http://www.nswiki.net/index.php?title=Fiore_Acquerello
Age: 32
Birthplace & Birthdate: May 22nd, 1977, Diadem, Windonesia
Family: Single, older sister, Stefania, parents divorced
Education: M.A. in Italian from the University of Diadem
Employment: U.S. Department of State
Background: Fiore was born to immigrants and raised bilingual from an early age. She had a fairly normal happy childhood, and was devastated by her parents divorce at age 17. She went to and earned her degree at her alma mater, the University of Diadem, and taught Italian and Italian Literature for several years, before becoming involved with the State Department. Fiore had a falling out with her sister, Stefania, and has not spoken to her in five years. She is frequently captured and worshipped by WA Gnomes.
Politics: Fairly Apathetic
Titles: Deputy Representative of the United States of Cookesland to the World Assembly, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Responsibilities: Looking after Richard; Gnome Goddess
Interests: Rockclimbing
Once said: “His fault was he tried to please all people, instead of the best people.”

[Wierd Anarchists]

Ambassador Name: Cocoamok
Age: 48
Photo: See my Avator
Birthplace: Unknow
Family: None, found as a baby in the desert of Al Kharid, raised by the community of Lumbridge
Education: Experienced fighter, excellent cook, nice fisher, excellent in mathematics
Employment: Making his life in the world
Background: He was always very lazy, but did feel a responsibility to give other people a nice and cosy life. So at the age of 6 he started to beat his teacher when that teacher threatened to beat Cocoamok. It is not nice to beat someone and he left school. Never seen there any more but he got his education from friends newspapers, books and magazines. He travelled through the world on legal and illegal ways. No one can be illegal, so he tried to bring more freedom where he came. Once the computer was normal there was so much to learn that he lost most interest in travelling. So he could become a co-ordinator for the Wierd Anarchists and be a diplomat.
Politics: Anarchist
Titles: None
Responsibilities: Coordinating the co-ordinators of the Wierd Anarchists. (Can you imagine how difficult that is?)
Interests: Beer, friends, games, politics and science in that order.
Once said: "Can wierd be weirder, will future be brighter, we have to work for it."

[Desh-Shrik]

Michael Stuart

Age: 25
Birthplace: Nanton City, Nanton
Family: James Stuart (father), Emmaly Taylor (mother), Dawn Bonde (wife)
Education: University and Military Academy
Employment: High Council of Desh-Shrik
Background: Led a revolution which founded Desh-Shrik
Politics: As patriotic as they come, but generally being rather liberal.
Titles: Highest Council Member, Warlord of Desh-Shrik, Hero of the People, etc.
Responsibilities: Convening with the various councils (High Council and all others) on all matters government. As highest council member, he has much more influence than a normal council members, but he still requires their support. He is also the delegate to the WA, along with several other representatives of the Councils, and he attends meetings by radio or phone.
Interests: Wargames, science and technology, reading of fantasy.
Once said: ''I ask not how many, but where they are, because we're going to have to fight them anyway.''

[The Palentine]

Ambassador Name: Sen. Horatio Sulla


Age:45
Birthplace:The 'Burgh
Family:single
Education:Palentine Naval Academy
Employment:Former Palentine Marine, Action Movie Star, and politician

Background:Horatio attended the Palentine Naval Academy, and excelled, except for a marked dislike of the ocean. Thus during his Third year he opted for the Palentine Marines, figuring that he would have less of a chance being lost at sea, and a better chance to score some tail from the grateful natives of the nations he would stop for R&R(everybody loves Marines, especially with their awesome uniform and sword). He graduated with honors, and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant, after surviving the gold plated SOB...err...the Marine Officer Training Course. He served with distinction, and made it to the rank of captain, before his fall from grace. It all happened while serving on the PNS Komoniwannalaya, Apparently there were quite a few regulations that he broke, when he was caught in the Admiral's Pinnace with the Admiral's Wife, twin 18 year old Daughters, several local women of questionable and negotiable morals, and a case of the Admiral's own 15 year old single malt Scotch...the Admiral really loved that Scotch. Horatio was promptly Court Marshalled and cashiered from the service. Needing a job, Lady Luck smiled upon Horatio. A movie producer watched the media coverage and liked what she saw in the young marine(and quite possibly a few things she could not see, but those are scurrilous rumors). She was producing an Action Movie, and needed a leading man. After a meeting (and a weekend in "private consultations") Horatio received the part. The movie, Die,Commie Scum,Die! was a critical failure, but a box office smash(there is just no accounting for the poor taste of Palentine Citizens). This lead to other movies coming Horatio's way, including the trilogy of films where he played Colonel Carnage, commie exterminator extraordinaire. He became rich, but his body was crying out enough(he did his own stunts). Thus he decided to seek a cushier career....he went into politics.

Politics: Right Wing Conservative Gun-Nut
Titles:Senator
Responsibilities within the UN Office:Pretty much here to piss off fluffies, flex his Barbaric Militant Machismo, and ogle the Thessadorian Ambassador.
Interests:Wild Turkey Rare Breed Whiskey, Women of Questionable and Negotiable Virtue, Guns, and Cigars...pretty much in that order.
Once said:"And people Call me a deviant?"

Velma Wong

Age:Ask me that question again and you'll be six inches shorter, buster!
Birthplace: Zeleonople, Palentine
Family:Single
Education: Gradute of the Acme Secretary Mail Corespondance Course.
Employment:Former featured entertainer at Minsky's Burlesque House in the 'Burgh, now secretary
Background:Velma was a former featured entertainer and very popular star of Minsky's Burlesque House, in the 'Burgh. However she was bored by the job, the pay was lousy, and she got tired of having to constantly smack around admirers who tried to get too hands on(if you know what I mean...wink wink!). She took a mail corespondance course, and became a secretary. She was hired by the good but unwholesome Senator Sulla because he liked her attitude, and her two other...ummm...."assets" she brought to the job.
Politics: fairly apethetic about politics
Titles: Burlesque Entertainer of the Year 2001. Best Tassel Dancer in The 'Burgh
Responsibilities: Assist the Senator, See that the office runs smoothly, and occasionally fill in when the Senator is too hung over.
Interests: Teasing men, drinking in the Stranger's Bar, and cats
Once said:"You won't find it down there, Columbus!" (to a man staring at her chest)

[Omigodtheykilledkenny]

Ladies and gentleman of the World Assembly, we are pleased to announce the return of the NSwiki ambassadors list! If you wish to add your ambassador's name to it, please do so -- in alphabetical order by nation, and do mind the markup -- and provide a link if s/he has a wiki page of his/her own. I've already added a couple, as examples, and sorry to those of you I decided to pick on.

If you need help with wiki format, telegram either me or Quod. I will add wiki links to the directory as they are posted, either in this thread or on the wiki list itself.

Thank you all.

[Glen-Rhodes]

The Ambassador of the Commonwealth of Glen-Rhodes, to the World Assembly:


Dr. Bradford William Castro
Age: 56
Birthplace: Grand Port, Glen-Rhodes
Family: No notable family members, but is the third of 5 siblings.
Education: P.S. 107 (primary), Grand Port Preparatory Academy (secondary), Glen-Rhodes National University (undergraduate), Governor University (graduate), Gaines College (post-graduate).
Employment: (in order) former secondary teacher, former university professor, former President of Governor University, former Senator of Glen-Rhodes, former Secretary of Education of Glen-Rhodes.
Politics: liberal, democratic socialist; member of the Glen-Rhodes Liberal Party; very partisan, and oftentimes hot-headed.
Titles: Chief Ambassador of the Foreign Relations Agency
Responsibilities: to debate, discuss, and vote on international legislation, in regards to the World Assembly, with the intent of furthering the views of both his nation and his political party.
Interests: law, education, social welfare policy, science, debating over nuances, etc.

[Unibot]

Eduard Heir

Age: 27
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Family: Eduard Heir Sr. (father), Nicola Heir (mother), Eva Renate (wife)
Education: High School Education, was expelled for "hyperactivity" and bullying a teacher into tears.
Employment: CEO of Heir Industries, Observer WA Ambassador to Unibot and Ambassador to Stash Kroh (Stash Kroh is part of the evergrowing Unibotian Empire).
Background: was an artist, and a inventor before stepping into the realms of Politics.
Politics: Switching between different positions and sides of the political spectrum with no coherent consistency with an exception of his constant radicalism. Shows a strong psychological dependency on power and attention. It is unclear if the subject is aware of the vast personality and ideological changes he'll make to cater to his mental needs.
Titles: Ambassador, Observer, President
Responsibilities: On paper he is to be a almighty presence for the Unibotian Empire in international relationships, but with all idealism put aside, the number of times seen drinking or participating in recreation drugs or "brawling" with other drunken ambassadors to the number of times seen in a official WA meeting is a unethical 5 to 1 statistic.
Interests: Drinking, Recreational Drugs, Gambling, Art, Corporate Espionage
Once said: ''This baseball bat is for ye, yeh stinking dolphin, and my lunch is for him, cause thats what he deserves for being a dickstick to a drunk."

[Aundotutunagir]

General Hiriaurtung Arororugul

Age: Government records indicate that he is around 60, though like all Aundotutunagirians he is not allowed to know his actual age.

Birthplace: Like other Aundotutunagirians of his age group, he was born either at Birthing Facility 17 West, Birthing Facility 8 West, or Birthing Facility 2 Northeast. Aundotutunagirians are not allowed to know their place of birth.

Family: There are no families in Aundotutunagir. All people are components of the Greater Aundotutunagirian Nation and thus, brothers and sisters.

Employment: Aundotutunagirian Directorate of Foreign Affairs

Background: Has served since birth in the Aundotutunagirian Directorate of Foreign Affairs. Recently transferred from Military Department to Diplomatic Department.

Politics: None

Titles: General. World Assembly Observer.

Responsibilities: Stating the opposition of the Aundotutunagirian People to the workings of the World Assembly.

Interests: Field artillery.

Once said: (To the mayor of Thulordurotha, a city on a broad flat plain in northern Aundotutunagir) "I have been instructed by the government to build a mountain on the Plain of Thulordurotha. The mountain is to be 2,753 feet in height, two miles wide at the base and 6 miles long at the base. As is customary, I have executed 300 citizens of Thulordurotha to demonstrate the seriousness of our mission. It is a glorious day for the people of Thulordurotha and the Aundotutunagirian Nation! I require a list of 30,000 volunteers. Construction shall commence in 30 minutes."

[Philimbesi]

Nigel S Youlkin

Age: 35
Birthplace: Heron Cay, Heron
Family: Margie Youlkin (wife), Nigel S Youlkin Jr (Son)
Titles: Ambassador-at-large, Ambassador Emeritus
Responsibilities: Debate and vote in the best interest of the people of USoP. Advise the President as to the activities of the floor.

[Sanctaria]

Archbishop Patrar Onassiao

Age: 54
Birthplace: Corpus, Sanctaria
Family: None
Education: B.A in Theology, PhD in Theology, B.A in Political Studies, M.A in Political Studies
Employment: Archbishop of Hevan, Papal Kingdom of Sanctaria's Ambassador to the W.A
Background: Born to a wealthy family in Corpus, a city in Sanctaria, he joined the priesthood upon completion of his second-level eduation
Politics: N/A
Titles: His Grace, His Eminence, His Excellency
Responsibilities: Archbishop, Ambassador
Interests: Theatre, Opera
Once said: "God shall save us all. Unless He doesn't. Which means He won't. Why? Because you did not please Him."