Kexarin Rénkédar

Kexarin Rénkédar
Prime Executive of the Kiravian Federacy
In office 1 Trîlua, 21190 – 31 Íodhilua, 21195
Chancellor	Sārden Ēvūrverd
Preceded by	Ivardus Kólsylvar
Succeeded by	Irasur Mérovin
Personal details
Born	24 Avsilua, 21139 Rivūlev, Kensonia
Political party	Independent (from 21190) Renaissance (until 21190)
Spouse(s)	none
Residence	Kroveniren Hall
Military service
Allegiance	Kensonia
Branch/service	State Defence Force
Years of service	21175-21192
Rank	Staff Sergeant
Unit	2nd Infantry Regiment
Battles/wars	Tropical 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 Kólsylvar, and to end the three decade-long period of isolationism by opening diplomatic and commercial relations with numerous foreign countries.

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 Federalist 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.