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Badge - Willems-Orde.jpg I, Joep O, President of the Netherlands, hereby award Daniel Parker the title of
Grand-Cross 3rd Class in the Willems-orde for military valor.
Grand-Cross 3rd Class
Badge - Orde der Nederlandse Leeuw.jpg I, ElGorro, President of the Netherlands, hereby award Daniel Parker the title of
Grand-Knight in the Orde der Nederlandse Leeuw for political dedication to our country.
Grand-Knight
Badge - Orde van Oranje Nassau.jpg I, Andreas Isaksson, President of the Netherlands, hereby award Daniel Parker the title of
Commander in the Order of Oranje-Nassau for civil contributions to our nation.
Commander


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Daniel Parker

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Society
Nationality Flag-Netherlands.jpg Dutch
Date of birth 1st October 2009
Day 681
Date of death May 21, 2022
Day 5296
Residence Southern Netherlands
Sex male
Newspaper Parker's Point
Politics
Vice president of The libertarian party
November 2009 – February 2010
Succeeded by Myers11
Secretary of State of Dutch Ministry of Recruitment and Coaching
December 2009 – January 2010
Preceded by Ops_thekiller
Succeeded by Refl3x
Minister of Dutch Ministry of Recruitment and Coaching
January 2010 – March 24, 2010
Preceded by Mitch Rapp
Succeeded by Garmr
Head of Coaching of Dutch Ministry of Recruitment and Coaching
March 2010 – August 2010
Party president of The libertarian party
February 2010 – April 2010
Preceded by Myers11
Succeeded by Markus Bell
Vice president of Independent Party
May 2010 – July 2010
Succeeded by Boklveski
Secretary of State of Ministry of Foreign Affairs
June 2010 – July 2010
Preceded by Konrad Neumann
Succeeded by Upper78
Ambassador of Dutch Ministry of Recruitment and Coaching
July 2010 – August 2010
Preceded by Markus Bell
Succeeded by Andreas Isaksson
Party president of Independent Party
July 2010 – August 2010
Preceded by Markus Bell
Succeeded by Andreas Isaksson
Secretary of State of Dutch Ministry of Interior and Information
July 2010 – 20 August 2010
Preceded by Konrad Neumann
Succeeded by Pierre Delvaux
Party president of Independent Party
September 2010 – 2010
Preceded by Deviltje
Vice Chairman of Congress of the Netherlands
12 September 2010 – 28 September 2010
Preceded by Mikhail Alexander
Prime Minister of Netherlands
29 September 2010 – 2010
Preceded by Hans Rienveld
Chairman of Congress of the Netherlands
29 January 2011 – 13 February 2011
Preceded by Broersje
Succeeded by ArtemIvanov
Minister of Ministry of Defense
13 February 2011 – 13 March 2011
Preceded by ChristiaanB94
Succeeded by Antiko
Secretary of State of Dutch Ministry of Home Affairs
13 March 2011 – 5 April 2011
Preceded by briepe
Secretary of State of Dutch Ministry of Finance
6 April 2011 – 5 May 2011
Preceded by Dennis Baks
Succeeded by Paladijn
President of Netherlands
5 May 2011 – 5 June 2011
Preceded by ChristiaanB94
Succeeded by ArtemIvanov
Congress member of Belgium
25 July 2011 – 25 August 2011
Served under All TOgethers
State Secretary of Belgian Ministry of Wiki
5 August 2011 – 10 August 2011
Preceded by Requiem Domine
Succeeded by Mikhail Alexander
Chairman of Congress of the Netherlands
06 November 2011 – 05 December 2011
Preceded by Mael Dunbar
Congress member of Congress of Canada
Party president of Iron & Wine
15 March 2014 – 15 June 2014
Preceded by MaartenW
Succeeded by Fhaemita The Apostate
Military
Military rank Icon rank God of War***.png God of War***
Aircraft rank Senior airman 5.png Senior Airman*****

Daniel Parker was a politician of the Icon-Netherlands.png Netherlands. He was the 25th President of the Netherlands, and was the last official to wear the titles Prime Minister and Senator of the Netherlands. He served in all Dutch Ministries, but is also quite well known for his legal and design work, he designed most of the Government emblems and newspaper headers as well as many party logos, including the one of Iron & Wine during his party presidency.



Achievements

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Freedom Fighter (x8)
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Hard Worker (x52)
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Congress Member (x31)
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Country President (x1)
Served: May 2011
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Media Mogul (x1)
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Battle Hero (x70)
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Campaign Hero (x1)
Last awarded: Day 1270
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Resistance Hero (x1)
Last awarded: Day 1317
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Super Soldier (x270)
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Mercenary (x2)
Last awarded: Day 1384
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True Patriot (x22)
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Party President* (x11)
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Wiki Rewards* (x5)
2011: February, June, July, November
2012: January


Icon achievement Congress Member on.gif Politics

Congress

Served as Congress member for:
Logo Party # terms Nation Highest position (party) Highest position (government)
Party-The Libertarian Party NEW.jpg Libertarian Party 4x Icon-Netherlands.png Netherlands Party president Minister of Dutch Ministry of Recruitment & Coaching
Party-Independent Party.png Independent Party 6x Icon-Netherlands.png Netherlands Party president Prime Minister
Party-Verenigd Nederland (historic).jpg Verenigd Nederland 2x Icon-Netherlands.png Netherlands Congress member Minister of Defense
Party-Democratisch Nederland v4.jpg Democratisch Nederland 4x Icon-Netherlands.png Netherlands Congress member President of the Netherlands
Party-All TOgethers.jpg All TOgethers 1x Icon-Belgium.png Belgium Congress member Secretary of State of Wiki
Party-Clan Wolf.png Clan Wolf 1x Icon-Canada.png Canada Congress member n/a
Party-Iron & Wine v2.jpg Iron & Wine 3x Icon-Netherlands.png Netherlands Party president Minister of Finance

Also served 1 term as Vice-Chairman of Congress, and 2 terms as Chairman of Congress of the Netherlands.

Party politics

Libertarian party

Daniel Parker became a member of the Libertarian Party (LP) and helped Thomas Fairfax get elected as Party president of LP in November 2009. With the help of Daniel Parker, LP became the 5th party and did manage to get into Congress. Daniel Parker showed interest in running for Party president, but on the advice of senior party members postponed this wish.

He served 5 more terms as Vice president of LP before becoming Party president of the party for 2 terms. The Party broke up after its founder Mighty Sigh left, and its other strongman (long-term) Party President Thomas Fairfax became less and less active. Conflicts arose between Myers11 (1x PP) and Daniel Parker about the future of the party, eventually made Myers11 leave to Green Liberal Party (GLD), while Daniel Parker put all his efforts transforming LP into the Independent Party.

Independent Party

IP logo designed by Daniel Parker

Daniel Parker is a founding member of the Independent Party, the successor of the Libertarian Party.

He has fulfilled the role of Vice Party president (VPP) since the party was founded together with his friend Markus Bell who has taken up the role of Party president for After Markus left for Canada, Parker became Party President for three (non-consecutive) terms (the longest in IP history).

The Independent Party was considered the 3rd party of the nation, making it a wanted partner for the coalition based governments. It was a unique position because of its neutral and independent stance, every member had to decide for themselves if they wanted the government for themselves.

In Congress, it got many proposals through unharmed, among them the institution of ads in-game to lure new players to the forums, temporary tax raise for war efforts which would be lowered later on, and restructuring of the government.

IP was able to supply many Ministers and Secretaries of State and 2 Prime Ministers (Boklevski and Daniel Parker).

Democratisch Nederland

After a brief period of being a member of Verenigd Nederland, Daniel Parker joined Democratisch Nederland hoping to help their aspirations for a communicative and democratic society.

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Recruitment & Coaching

Since December 2009 Daniel Parker was active in the Ministry of Recruitment and Coaching first as Secretary of State under Sjakie03, then 1 term under Mitch Rapp. He mainly focused on the Coaching part, since it lay in rubble. From January 2010 Daniel Parker served 2 terms as Minister of Recruitment and Coaching. During this time and later on until August 2010, he kept the coaching-team alive serving in the executive title of ´Head of Coaching´.

Recruitment & Coaching revisited

Although he swore never to return to R&C, in late 2010 Parker was encouraged by many people to return to R&C after his term as the Prime Minister. Frerk took up the position before him, but didn't fulfil his 3-month term, because of the backfire the language change to officially Dutch generated (a plan was supported by Daniel as well). Frerk lost interest in eNL (which was still called eUNL a month before) and fled off to the Icon-UK.png UK. Daniel Parker was told that he was the man to revive the country's low population (all-time low of around 500), Parker reformed the R&C department once again, making it fully independent from the government, but at the centre stage of society. The reforms this time focused mainly on Recruitment. Although he signed up for a 3 month period, and the recruiting team seemed to form a nice shape, and the general vibe was positive, Daniel Parker quit the game after becoming disillusioned about the game after his failures on the battlefield (spent over Icon - Gold.gif 240 GOLD in a (futile) attempt to get a Battle Hero Medal). (for the record it must be added that his beloved Independent Party which he helped found and nurtured got PTO'd by an unknown Croat, was a prelude to this disillusionment)

Advisor role

Daniel Parker served 1 term as an official advisor to the Government. However, he was consulted pretty often by people new to their government function in the capacity of ´Head of Coaching´.

Foreign Affairs

Daniel Parker became State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the 26th of June 2010 where he blew new life into the ambassador system and started discussions and plans on how to reorganize that section.

Ambassador

Since 4 December 2009, Daniel Parker was the first Ambassador for the eUNL situated in Icon-Singapore.png Singapore. He later became region manager of South East Asia & Oceania. And severed a couple of months as an ambassador for Icon-Indonesia.png Indonesia. He also served 1 term as Chief ambassador. Served a couple of terms as ambassador for Icon-Norway.png Norway and Icon-Poland.png Poland

Interior & Information

Before leaving politics Daniel Parker served 1 (almost full) term as State Secretary of Interior of Information in Juli 2010, where his efforts went into the making of a series of informative articles. But also he focused on redesigning the government newspaper formats and setting up the designs for a new Dutch Medals, which he thought his country lacked.

Prime Minister

Daniel Parker served 1 term as Prime Minister of the Netherlands, uniting the many diverse parties. In that term, he changed the constitution so far that the position of Prime Minister was removed, in order to make way for a semi-CP-centered government. After Daniel Parker nullified the title of Prime Minister, he considered running for Country President but made way for his friend and former party member Andreas Isaksson, for who he felt he could bind the country like no other can.

Defense

In February 2011 Daniel Parker was appointed as Minister of Defense (minister of war to be precise), whereof he altered the names of the army sections and expanded the army structure into its current form. He tried to help out in a volatile time when both Poland and Serbia occupied his country.

Interiour & Information

Being less active due to RL commitments, Daniel Parker took the easy job (for him at least) of SS of MoHa (also known as the Wiki-minister). Since he started the wikiproject Netherlands in the first place he seemed to be the perfect guy for this job.

Finance

Hoping to get a better understanding of how the state finances are being managed, Daniel got himself a position as Secretary of State at the Dutch Ministry of Finance.

Presidency

In May 2011 Parker ran for president as Democratic Party candidate against Epix (I&W) and groenewilde (CLN). It was considered an exiting elections, because seldomly in NL 2 candidates run which have a lot of experience. Epix had a lot of XP as a soldier, but not a lot of political clout.

The public apparently recognized Daniel to be more suitable due to his career in every ministry of the country. Ironically Daniel Parker was the first to fully form a semi-CP-government under the rules of the constitution he created, amongst others to involve a formateur from a competing party and the Party Presidents. It took 4 days to form a government. Daniel Parker's presidency was soon to be tested after Icon-France.png France signed peace with Icon-Poland.png Poland, after which the latter declared Netherlands a Natural enemy once again, only to wipe the Netherlands for the 5th time in half a year. That was the end of Poland-Netherlands War (May 2011). After a long and argues debate with both the Polish MoFa Maniek M and the Dutch congress, finally, a truce was agreed upon.

Icon achievement Resistance Hero on.gif Notable contributions

Dutch Medals

everybody wants a shiny Medal

Daniel Parker was the driving force and designer of the Dutch Medals, which are an integrated part of the country's forum and community.

Constitution Change

from party-coalition-government to Semi-CP-based government

The Netherlands as the only country in eRepublik for a long had been ruled by a Party Coalition-based government. Where the biggest party formed a majority (coalition) with other parties after the Congress elections. With the Prime Minister as head of the government. A CP-based government was something which was experimented with before but seized to convince the imagination of some of the bigger parties. Parker constitution change made a place for a compromise between the powers of the president and his government and Congress. This reform came after almost a full year of very argued debates. And still is the main premise for the power relations of Congress and CP today.

Senate

The first outline for a Senate where officially installed in this constitution proposal, giving the administrative functions of the country a juridical foundation. The Senate became quite controversial after a senator edited a post of a congress member in a congress debate. Many people plead for disbanding or reforming it. The Senate was finally disbanded after Daniel Parker's final reform wasn't preferred by ruling government parties. However, some functions introduced in the Senate still exist.

first Dutch MU

Daniel Parker was the first person to see the potential in the new game feature: Military units. The Congress denied to purchase an MU, so Daniel paid for the Nederlandse Krijgsmacht-MU by himself only to donate it later to the Dutch state.

Truce with Poland

In May 2011, Daniel Parker helped to reach an agreement with Poland, in order to get the Netherlands back on the map after losing Poland-Netherlands War (May 2011).

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Daniel Parker delivered a lot of damage in many battles, all over the New World. On day 1269 he was able to get his first Battle Hero Medal, and the subsequent day a Campaign Hero Medal in the resistance war in Northern Netherlands against Poland.

Operation Waffle

As a young player fighting in operation Waffle, Daniel Parker almost fought himself to death doing 500+ damage as a Icon rank Sergeant.png Sergeant, During the battle, he was promoted to Icon rank Lieutenant.png Lieutenant. Injuries and a heavy Q5 job put a heavy toll on his health, and it looked like he wasn't going to make it through. Luckily Cocoamok healed him by gifting him 20 times.

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Daniel Parker is the founder of the Pragmatism organisation, which researches, funds and deploys, pragmatical solutions to social, economic and political problems. He owns 6 companies at the moment.

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Contact

Trivia

Name

Although the name ´Daniel Parker´ sounds really English or American, he is in RL actually Dutch and speaks as fluent Dutch as he does English. Daniel Parker his RL first name is also Daniël, however, people hardly call him that by that name. The last part of his nickname is a derivative of the times Daniel roamed the streets with spray-cans, an activity which he hasn´t indulged in for over 10 years. He keeps using different forms of that name as a nostalgic souvenir of freer times.

Avatars

The profile picture of Daniel Parker was almost always a portrait of an American Philosopher Richard Rorty.

soul penetrating
patriotic
Belgian with a hint of Dutch
Oh Canada
went out in the woods for a while
DP feels rejuvenated after eating a fresh papaya

Timeline

  • Day 681 born in Western Netherlands
  • Day 705 joined The libertarian party
  • Day 715 became eUNL´s first ambassador of Singapore
  • Day 727 created The libertarian party wiki-page
  • Day 739 founded the Pragmatism organisation
  • Day 742 official Vice Party president of the Libertarian Party
  • Day 745 secretary of Recruitment and coaching for eUNL government under Sjakie03
  • Day 755 created this wiki-page
  • Day 757 became Cardinal of the Netherlands (although was never active in this organisation, and later quit)
  • Day 759 official candidate for Congress elections (January 2010) for The libertarian party
  • Day 760 started his newspaper Parkers Point
  • Day 762 first article of the Parkers Point enters top 5 newspaper-articles in UNL
  • Day 770 Daniel Parker joined the order of Rhenus (later the order was disbanded)
  • Day 782 article of the Parkers Point about the progress of a UNL baby boom became the #1 article in UNL news
  • Day 789-792 Daniel Parker finds out about a PTO in the LP, writes 2 articles on the subject supported with a deep investigation into a multies PTO network, uncovering 200+ multies which led to the downfall of the network that caused over 6 PTO (attempts in many countries), and even led to the ban of the Country President of Turkey.
  • Day 888 Daniel Parker announces to lower his activity drastically and become a 2-Clicker, however, that is harder said than done.
  • Day 911 helped set up the newfound Independent Party
  • Day 1001 gained MM medal
  • Day 1004 Daniel Parker (again) decides to turn to a 2-clicker again because V2 is boring
  • Day 1015 Parker decides to become "the philosopher in the cave at the Vaalserberg", and take up a more reflective role in his party and country.
  • Day 1031 according to Daniel, he wrote his best article this day[1]
  • Day 1201 statements on the Senate issue[2]
  • Day 1256 Daniel Parker runs for CP[3]
  • Day 1260 Daniel Parker becomes President[4]
  • Day 1292 Last hours in the power tower (CP article)
  • Day 1327 Daniel Parker leaves for Belgium this is what he wrote on his application form "I'd like to seek asylum to get away from my wretched country filled with greedy smut-peddlers. ;} I expect Belgium to be more civilised than my home country. ", leaving his country's citizenship for the first time[5]
  • Day 1363 Moved again, this time to Icon-Canada.png Canada because he had it with being in small countries that are forced to stay neutral. (plus he got the idea the political environment of Belgium was just as muddy as that of the Netherlands).
  • Day 1461 Daniel Parker has left eRepublik [6]
  • Day 15?? DP returns slowly to erep, incidentally becomes a Congress Member of Canada in the process
  • Day 2307 Daniel Parker becomes party president of Iron & Wine