Zacharia Raven
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The beginning and two-clicking era
Zacharia Raven was born on the 3rd of June 2009. He became aware of eRepublik by some forgotten Finnish player. He saw it logical to begin his journey in 
Finland. Like many others, Raven spent most of his first year 2-Clicking and learning the basic mechanisms of the game.
Not much is remembered about Raven from his early days. Most notably he is remembered for his fan-fic series "Suomen Erillinen KarateKomppania" in which Raven portrayed a bunch of criminals who fought without weapons. He based the series on the events in eRepublik. All 7 parts of the series were transferred to Kiai! SEKK - sanomat, the newspaper owned by KarateKomppania organisation in order to keep "real" apart from fan-fic. Later the series was transferred back to his personal newspaper, as organisations were removed from private use.
Raven did run for Congress a couple of times, but never gained other votes but his own.
Sudden interest in the society
In March 2010 the government released an article stating the foundation of the court in Finland. This also meant the real birth of the legal system. This caught Raven's eye due to his IRL-studies in law.
Raven sought more information about the newly founded system and decided that he wanted to be part of it. He began writing articles via his organisation, eJuridica and gained some attention with them.
Pretty soon the readers asked Raven why he hadn't run for Congress if had so much to say. Raven answered this by running for Congress in the next elections. He gained 17 votes in elections held in March 2010.
Legendary and notorious rise to self-made ministry
Raven did not waste any time with his plans. After being elected to Congress, he started to work with the legal system. Because there had been some discussion about taking down the court, he first tested the congress's opinion about it. The result was, that the court stayed, and with it the legal system with laws.
After this Raven acting on his own created the Ministry of Justice. Congress voted for it to be passed. Raven became the first Minister of Justice. It is worth noting that Raven had been active in the actual society for under a month before achieving his place in the government - a position he had created himself. Due to later events, he said that no player should rise so high so fast.
Stormy times and the fall of the legal system
At first, everything seemed to go well for Raven. He recruited the best people he could find to work with him in the Ministry of Justice. He fine-tuned the created laws and made a few on his own.
Raven's activity brought the common people's attention towards the laws. This was good at first. Many started to ask whether Finland really needed such laws that were not by eRepublik. Raven and others managed to keep most of the people satisfied for a time and managed to work in peace.
Raven's impossibly fast rise to power took its toll. Raven made a lot of enemies because of his ruthless and seemingly arrogant attitude. This soon caused the public to start criticizing him, and MoJ. Raven feuded himself with the likes of Erius and Gabriel Lavanche, but also found alliances with people like Okkius Pyromanius.
Raven soon found himself spending more time arguing on a personal level than doing what he wanted when he created the Ministry of Justice. This frustrated him very much. He became disappointed with society, and more so with the legal system. And so did everybody else. As attacks on Raven were pointed against the MoJ and the legal system, the regular users had to witness many jesty battles in the court and outside it.
Against all odds, Raven did manage to keep the MoJ up for three months - 2 months after his own term as minister ended. Finally, he tricked Gabriel Lavanche, who tried to end the system first, and put the whole legal system; the laws, the court and the MoJ to rest, by himself. Thus Raven became the man who single-handedly created and destroyed the whole ministry of Finland.
Retirement from the society and focusing on media
Raven was heavily disappointed with the Finnish community. He felt betrayed because the legal system was the only thing he ever bothered to do anything more than just two-click. That's why he retired from the political field for a couple of months. He did run for Congress and was elected too, but his effort was minimal.
Instead of participating in the forum community Raven started once again writing to the media. He wrote many humorous articles, like a series portraying a fictional family and their life during the presidency of Kammo XXlII.
Raven avoided any serious topics because he felt that he had nothing more to give.
End of 2010, return to politics. Another self-made office
After almost a year of hiatus from active participation in the forum congress Raven decided to forget the past, and start to focus on the events of the community once again. In December 2010, Raven managed to create a new office for himself - A government clerk. This time he did not make it a government post, to avoid dull arguments with politicians.
Raven did not mean the post for himself originally. But due to a manoeuvre by the chancellor of Finland at the time Raven did a counter-maneuver, which by the end made sure that he himself would get the post.
His past was not forgotten by those whom he had feuded in the past, but again, even when faced with former presidents he triumphed. Raven served until he felt that his IRL took too much time, and resigned on February 19th. He had served almost 3 months, which he felt was enough.
After Raven resigned, no one wanted to continue the post. It was not, however, taken apart, but embedded into another existing post.
Party leader, new paths
At the same time Raven founded the Government Clerk he also became a president of the Kansallisdemokraattinen puolue party (KDP). There he wanted to try out his vision of a political party. He created a tight order in the party. It meant that instead of every member doing what they please, Raven wanted KDP to decide one stand, of which all members would then press on.
Raven's idea was that the party's stand was to be decided democratically inside the party. This would in theory give a strong position to KDP against all other parties.
Raven's idea did not work, and KDP decided to adjust Raven's idea to be more accepting towards different ideas. Raven was again disappointed and left KDP, and returned home, to Liberaali Edistyspuolue, where he had served for most of his time.
Presidency and Supreme Commander of Asgard
In 2012 Zacharia Raven, as mad as it may seem, became the President of Finland. His term was historical as Finland decided, despite Raven's and many other old-timers' rigorous opposition, to leave EDEN to form and join a new alliance with Sweden, Asgard. Raven ended up being part of the team that had the responsibility of creating the foundations of the new and small alliance. During all this, Raven wrote his most internationally quoted article[1] in the governmental newspaper. It officially marked Finland's resignation from EDEN-alliance, in which it was a founding member.
After Presidency and SC
After reaching what he had always dreamed about in politics, Raven has served as Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs, as well as in Asgard HQ. He also gave his Military Unit for better use and helped to form the mercenary unit in Finland, Mossad. Mossad gained major success with its professional organization, but after the addition of Combat Orders to the game, Mossad quickly died as the mercenary business stopped. Once again Raven had little or nothing to have interest in.
During 2013, Raven took governmental posts, including Vice Presidencies and the first official Supreme Commander of Asgard. He ran for the second presidency against WP Attak but lost after a post-election check - Raven was in the lead when the elections ended. This loss meant, in Raven's mind, that Finland was no longer a place where he wanted to spend his time and energy. He left the society almost entirely, with the exception of acting as a Vice President for None after an impeachment. Raven took on Mentorship in Finland, which he held until 2014.
New era in Denmark
In early 2014 Raven decided that it was either time to quit the game, or find a meaningful place to work in. During his last term as Supreme Commander of Asgard, and several terms in HQ, he worked with Danish leaders, mostly Maine Coon. Pretty quickly Raven realized that he shared the communal power-gaming ideology with Danes, and started to dream about moving to Denmark. This happened after some months. In Denmark Raven acted as Minister of Foreign Affairs and as a general member of the government, until June 2014 when he ran for Presidency for the first time in Denmark. His opponent was legendary Ilphen. The elections of June 2014 became memorable, as Raven overcame Ilphen by only 1 vote. Ilphen had the lead the whole 5th and held it until a few hours to end.
Raven served 2 more terms, making it 4 Presidential terms in total, of which 1 in Finland and 3 in Denmark. He was the first Finn ever to accomplish more than 1 Presidency outside Finland.
In Denmark, Zacharia was a member of the Danish Royal Party.
Coming and going
For the last couple of years (since 2020), he would show up, stay for a while and disappear again. No major achievements in this period.
Other
Zacharia Raven was a proud Senior member of Game Moderators.
