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The '''Agency for the Preservation of the Restoration (APR)''' was the {{wp|secret police}} in [[Urcea]] from [[1902]] to [[1927]]. It was formed after the restoration of [[House de Weluta]] following the conclusion of the [[Red Interregnum]]. During its existence, the Agency fought a campaign against insurgents and terror cells associated with the [[Republican Party (Urcea)|Republican Party]] known as the National Republican Army, which sought to overthrow the de Welutas and restore the [[Urcean Republic]]. The Agency also worked to root out non-socialist opponents of the regime, but these efforts were largely secondary in nature. The Agency had a broad mandate to operate extrajudicially.
'''Kexarin Rénkédar''' is a Kiravian politician who served as the [[Prime Executive of the Kiravian Federacy]] from 21190 to 21195. During this time, he spearheaded the effort to complete the transition from [[Kirosocialism]] to a capitalist market economy begun by his predecessor Ivardus Cólsylvar, and to end the three decade-long period of isolationism by opening diplomatic and commercial relations with numerous foreign countries.
 
==Biography==
==Biography==
Rénkédar was born to an upper-middle class family in Rivūlev, a mountain town in County Armyrvosta, Kensonia. His father had come from a mining background and risen to become co-owner of a trucking company. The elder Rénkédar served two non-consecutive terms in the Kensonia Assembly during his son's youth.
 
Rénkédar joined the Kensonia State Defence Force at 22 and trained as a machine gunner and mechanic with the 91st Kensonia Mountain Regiment. Mobilised and offered to Federal command during the closing stages of the Tropical Sea War, Rénkédar's unit was deployed to the  Parchiri Mountains of northern Vokambia in support of an (ultimately successful) mission to liberate Kiravian soldiers from POW camps. Rénkédar himself only came under fire on two occasions, and later claimed to have fired only six shots in combat before Kiravian forces withdrew from mainland Vokambia. He was given a commendatory promotion upon his return to Kensonia and honourably discharged with the rank of Staff Sergeant.
 
==Prime Executure==
Rénkédar set out to continue Kólsylvar's dismantling of the bloated and dysfunctional Kirosocialist system. He oversaw the continued breakup and privatisation of the many state monopolies that had accrued during Kirosocialism.
 
Applied distributist principles in the privatisation process by breaking up nationalised industries (such as blank) into a larger number of regional firms in order to mitigate an expected spike in white-collar unemployment by creating 20 or 30 identical managerial and specialist positions where a more conventional breakup into three firms would have yielded only three such positions.
 
Rénkédar's greatest contribution to Kiravian recovery from Kirosocialism was returning Kiravia to the world stage and reopening the nation to foreign diplomacy and commerce. Along withhis Chief State Executive and fellow Kaskan [[Fyren Raidhvód]], Rénkédar launched the Embassy Exchange Programme in 2119X, signed a mutual defence and free trade agreement with Alacea in 2119X, and forged alliances with the Far Echo Islands and Nova Pictavia in 2119X. Echo Islands Wars.
 
Though remembered as the most internationalist of Prime Executives, Rénkédar played a major rôle in the development of Kiravia's extremely restrictive, culturally discriminatory, and notoriously bureaucratic immigration policy. For the Shaftonist-Republican Alliance and the Rénkédar administration, heavily restricting immigration served the triple purpose of softening the expected blow of unemployment during the initial phases of economic liberalisation, encouraging the highly-educated Kiravians who had emigrated during the ''cuaĥyrvrætor'' to return, and protecting Cosco-Kiravian cultural and social institutions (which Rénkédar and the Shaftonist-Republicans of the time saw as an important stabilising force in microeconomics) from Westernisation. The Rénkédar administration enforced a strict application of the Migration Code's culturally-preferential provisions, froze the renewal (and thus compelled the emigration) of many non-Coscivian immigrants already in Kiravia, and effectively put a moratorium on refugee and asylum admissions.
 
==Personal Life==
Rénkédar was known as a calm, collected man who spoke clearly and eloquently but little, in keeping with the laconic stereotype of Western Highlanders. He never married and described himself as "content in solitude and among friends", though during his term as Prime Executive, he lamented doing nothing to continue his family line. In 21195, he retired to an alpine estate in County Crúaxan, Kensonia and waived his right to a Federal Protective Service detail, preferring to live in privacy. He was known to be an avid (if untalented) golfer who made extensive use of the Kroveniren Hall putting green and followed major Kiravian and international tours closely, requesting that his aides include golf standings with his morning and evening briefs.
 
Rénkédar died in his châlet sometime during the winter month of Karlua 21206. His remains were discovered early the following month by his accountant, and a coroner's investigation concluded that he had died of natural causes. Although a Sarostivist, Rénkédar was sent off with Iduan funerary rites and his cremated remains inurned with other members of his lineage near Rivūlev.
 
In spite of his unprecedented diplomatic achievements and generally open policy toward the outside world, Rénkédar himself was no cosmopolite. Almost completely ignorant of Western culture, he relied heavily on [[Fyren Raidhvód|Raidhvód's]] advice and coaching in protocol situations. He entered office without knowledge of English or any Western language (one anecdote purports that he did not know that 'Q' was a letter of the Latin alphabet until his second year as PE), progressed to the English II level by studying on the job, and according to a post-retirement interview, remembers
 
Rénkédar practised the Sarostivist religion and also attended meetings at the interfaith [[Kartika#Points_of_Interest|Kartika House of Prayer]]. He is listed as a benefactor of a Quaker congregation in Ástóróva, [[Hanoram]].


==History==
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===Background===
[[Category:Kiravians]]
Prior to the [[Red Interregnum]], the [[Government of Urcea]] employed several police agencies - both local and national - to root out potential enemies of the Government, including the [[Royal and Imperial Army (Urcea)|Royal Army]] itself. None of these agencies had a systematic, nation-wide mandate, and many were forced to public account for their actions. With the start of the [[Red Interregnum]] and the legitimist insurgency, legitimist forces - once organized as an actual fighting force by approximately 1895 - established the Security Division. The Division largely superseded all the pre-Interregnum agencies in both size and scope due to the relatively unprecedented civil war nature of the conflict, which required subterfuge against individuals which were theoretically fellow countrymen. This was intended on rooting out [[Gréagóir FitzRex|FitzRexist]] informants and potential defectors within the Army and was also responsible for managing the flow of information to the public (and, consequently, the enemy) by any means necessary. The Security Division also ensured that allied political leaders within Urcea remained loyal to the cause of the restoration by a wide variety of means, ranging from {{wp|blackmail}} to monetary rewards.
===Establishment and mandate===
The Agency was established as part of the Constitutional Settlement Act of 1902, passed approximately a month after the recapture of [[Urceopolis (City)|Urceopolis]] by forces loyal to [[House de Weluta]], ending the [[Red Interregnum]]. The Act included a large number of reforms affirming some of the changes made during the rule of [[Gréagóir FitzRex]], but also many changes intended to strengthen the restored Monarchy while introducing some further democratic reforms in order to stabilize the country. The establishment of an Agency to root out domestic insurgents or threats to the regime was considered imperative and was accordingly included within the Act. The bulk of the initial force of the Agency was drawn from the ranks of the Legitimist Army Security Division, though additional personnel - both officers, law enforcement, and paid informants - were added over the course of the Agency's existence.
===Republican war===
The Agency engaged in the so-called "Republican War" from its establishment until 1925. This conflict was a running effort by the Agency, in conjunction with the [[Royal and Imperial Army (Urcea)|Royal Army]], to defeat insurgencies of supporters of the [[Urcean Republic]], though many times the conflict was an effort by the Agency to outwit and uncover terror cells. The conflict took many forms, including an armed uprising in Beldra in 1910 which was suppressed, as well as the use of paid informants and infiltration of the [[Republican Party (Urcea)|Republican Party]].
===Dissolution===
With the formal conclusion of the Republican War in 1925 and end of [[Gréagóir FitzRex|FitzRexist]] plots the decade prior, the Agency became increasingly unneeded as the democratic reforms of the previous decades succeeded in making [[Urcea]] mostly stable. The Agency was sparingly used after 1924 and its mandate was reduced every year before it was finally formally abolished in 1927.
==Legacy==
In [[1976]], [[Procurator]] Thorpe Aedansson established a Commission on Injustices of the Restoration (CIR), which was responsible for investigating the full extent of the Agency's operations, gathering and declassifying the Agency's records, and preparing a comprehensive report to the public. The Commission's report, released on 18 September 1978, detailed over a thousand extrajudicial killings and disappearances likely perpetrated by the Agency as well as tens of thousands of warrantless arrests and interrogations. The Commission also established the innocence of more than ten thousand individuals arrested and detained by the Agency. That same year, a bill before the [[Concilium Daoni]] to pay reparations to the descendants and survivors of the Agency activities failed.


[[Category: Urcea]]
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[[Category: Government of Urcea]]

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Kexarin Rénkédar
Prime Executive of the Kiravian Federacy
In office
1 Trîlua, 21190 – 31 Íodhilua, 21195
ChancellorSārden Ēvūrverd
Preceded byIvardus Kólsylvar
Succeeded byIrasur Mérovin
Personal details
Born24 Avsilua, 21139
Rivūlev, Kensonia
Political partyIndependent (from 21190)
Renaissance (until 21190)
Spouse(s)none
ResidenceKroveniren Hall
Military service
Allegiance Kensonia
Branch/serviceState Defence Force
Years of service21175-21192
Rank Staff Sergeant
Unit2nd Infantry Regiment
Battles/warsTropical Sea War

Kexarin Rénkédar is a Kiravian politician who served as the Prime Executive of the Kiravian Federacy from 21190 to 21195. During this time, he spearheaded the effort to complete the transition from Kirosocialism to a capitalist market economy begun by his predecessor Ivardus Cólsylvar, and to end the three decade-long period of isolationism by opening diplomatic and commercial relations with numerous foreign countries.

Biography

Biography

Rénkédar was born to an upper-middle class family in Rivūlev, a mountain town in County Armyrvosta, Kensonia. His father had come from a mining background and risen to become co-owner of a trucking company. The elder Rénkédar served two non-consecutive terms in the Kensonia Assembly during his son's youth.

Rénkédar joined the Kensonia State Defence Force at 22 and trained as a machine gunner and mechanic with the 91st Kensonia Mountain Regiment. Mobilised and offered to Federal command during the closing stages of the Tropical Sea War, Rénkédar's unit was deployed to the Parchiri Mountains of northern Vokambia in support of an (ultimately successful) mission to liberate Kiravian soldiers from POW camps. Rénkédar himself only came under fire on two occasions, and later claimed to have fired only six shots in combat before Kiravian forces withdrew from mainland Vokambia. He was given a commendatory promotion upon his return to Kensonia and honourably discharged with the rank of Staff Sergeant.

Prime Executure

Rénkédar set out to continue Kólsylvar's dismantling of the bloated and dysfunctional Kirosocialist system. He oversaw the continued breakup and privatisation of the many state monopolies that had accrued during Kirosocialism.

Applied distributist principles in the privatisation process by breaking up nationalised industries (such as blank) into a larger number of regional firms in order to mitigate an expected spike in white-collar unemployment by creating 20 or 30 identical managerial and specialist positions where a more conventional breakup into three firms would have yielded only three such positions.

Rénkédar's greatest contribution to Kiravian recovery from Kirosocialism was returning Kiravia to the world stage and reopening the nation to foreign diplomacy and commerce. Along withhis Chief State Executive and fellow Kaskan Fyren Raidhvód, Rénkédar launched the Embassy Exchange Programme in 2119X, signed a mutual defence and free trade agreement with Alacea in 2119X, and forged alliances with the Far Echo Islands and Nova Pictavia in 2119X. Echo Islands Wars.

Though remembered as the most internationalist of Prime Executives, Rénkédar played a major rôle in the development of Kiravia's extremely restrictive, culturally discriminatory, and notoriously bureaucratic immigration policy. For the Shaftonist-Republican Alliance and the Rénkédar administration, heavily restricting immigration served the triple purpose of softening the expected blow of unemployment during the initial phases of economic liberalisation, encouraging the highly-educated Kiravians who had emigrated during the cuaĥyrvrætor to return, and protecting Cosco-Kiravian cultural and social institutions (which Rénkédar and the Shaftonist-Republicans of the time saw as an important stabilising force in microeconomics) from Westernisation. The Rénkédar administration enforced a strict application of the Migration Code's culturally-preferential provisions, froze the renewal (and thus compelled the emigration) of many non-Coscivian immigrants already in Kiravia, and effectively put a moratorium on refugee and asylum admissions.

Personal Life

Rénkédar was known as a calm, collected man who spoke clearly and eloquently but little, in keeping with the laconic stereotype of Western Highlanders. He never married and described himself as "content in solitude and among friends", though during his term as Prime Executive, he lamented doing nothing to continue his family line. In 21195, he retired to an alpine estate in County Crúaxan, Kensonia and waived his right to a Federal Protective Service detail, preferring to live in privacy. He was known to be an avid (if untalented) golfer who made extensive use of the Kroveniren Hall putting green and followed major Kiravian and international tours closely, requesting that his aides include golf standings with his morning and evening briefs.

Rénkédar died in his châlet sometime during the winter month of Karlua 21206. His remains were discovered early the following month by his accountant, and a coroner's investigation concluded that he had died of natural causes. Although a Sarostivist, Rénkédar was sent off with Iduan funerary rites and his cremated remains inurned with other members of his lineage near Rivūlev.

In spite of his unprecedented diplomatic achievements and generally open policy toward the outside world, Rénkédar himself was no cosmopolite. Almost completely ignorant of Western culture, he relied heavily on Raidhvód's advice and coaching in protocol situations. He entered office without knowledge of English or any Western language (one anecdote purports that he did not know that 'Q' was a letter of the Latin alphabet until his second year as PE), progressed to the English II level by studying on the job, and according to a post-retirement interview, remembers

Rénkédar practised the Sarostivist religion and also attended meetings at the interfaith Kartika House of Prayer. He is listed as a benefactor of a Quaker congregation in Ástóróva, Hanoram.