Luke Gainey

Luke Gainey was a Politician, Journalist, Artist, and Founder of multiple Sun Prairie Nations across their broad history. He served, at various times, as one of two Founders and the 3rd Prime Minister of the Coalition of the North, as the 1st Chairman of the Workers Party of North Garfea, 1st President of Grand Meowtopia, President of the Alpine Union, 2nd President of the West Mendotan Republic, and the 17th Vice-President of the United Federation. He also served crucial roles in the UNSC, Truck Empire, and in the administrations of multiple Presidents of the United Federation. He was also the legacy senator for the State of Meowtopia. 

Gainey became a citizen of the United Federation in early September of 2017 during the presidency of Ainsley Wall, whom he held in personal respect but frequently disagreed with. As a leading voice of both the Nationalists and the New Generation movements, he often found himself at odds with citizens of the Founding Era and the Old Guard politicians who dominated the High Command. His high profile activity eventually led him to a political alliance and deep friendship with fellow New Generation advocate Liam Kerl. They protested what they saw as an increasingly out of touch High Command, populated by members who were not elected and not accountable to the people. Eventually reaching a fever pitch, he joined Kerl in their declaration of the Coalition of the North and delivered their Address of Secession to John Banks-George. 

Gainey and Kerl's Coalition inspired the declarations of independence of Valentino, Salamandastron, Takjing, and the Granache, effectively creating the Sun Prairie Nations as a plural. Despite Gainey and Kerl's disagreements about the level of Communist influence which would govern the nation, he oversaw a significant deal of the Coalition of the North's territorial expansion, governed primarily by the Territorial Claims Treaty which he helped to create and was an original signatory of. On the outset of the Granache War, he was a key voice in the movement within the Coalition to provide support to the Federation, believing it would ease tensions and that the Granache posed a serious threat to the Coalition itself. 

Following his tenure as Prime Minister of the Coalition, and that country's temporary disbanding, Gainey founded the Democratic People's Republic of Garfea, more frequently known as North Garfea, and using his friendships with John Banks-George, Matt Kurschner, and Liam Kerl of the reformed Coalition, created the Sun Prairie Area Treaty Organization (SPATO) as a means of ending war between them. He sided with the United Federation during the September War and some of the Zink Wars, but eventually soured to them after Liam Kerl's Coalition was reannexed into the Federation upon James Duval's takeover and the Federation Civil War. 

Gainey forged a new and powerful alliance with UNSC Premier Rydon Foldhazi who had also steadily started to resent the nation which had repeatedly rejected both as Presidential candidates. With the growth of the Despan Republic as a Federation Ally, the two banded together with the Flynjnippines, South Garfea, the Republic of Conner, the General Flyers Corporation, and the Anti-Fed Movement to create the Broalition, an alliance which launched a surprise invasion of the United Federation on the 27th of March, 2019; this invasion kickstarted the First Great Prairie War, and ended in the Broalition's defeat and the surrender of Gainey's North Garfea at the Battle of E House. 

He joined with a number of Meowtopian and Garfean refugees from the war to create a new state, at first the Republic of Friesland but later renamed Grand Meowtopia. Though Gainey was initially against the nation's militarization, especially after the Federation and the rest of it's allies forgave the nation's war debt. However, the later actions of President Boott and later President Anderson convinced him that Grand Meowtopia would never be seen as an equal to the Despan Republic or the nascent Federal Wisconsinite Republic. Joining with his old ally, Rydon Foldhazi, they convinced many in the Republicats Party of the Federation to secede from the Federation, creating an engineered crisis from which they would take the Federation by surprise. 

Prairie War II saw massive and unexpected gains by the new Catxis Powers of the UNSC, Truck Empire, and Grand Meowtopia, as the Federation and the rest of the Allies were as unprepared as expected. However, the UNSC performed a majority of the military exercise of the conflict, and none of the leaders had prepared for the resolve of the Federal Wisconsinite Republic and Despa in defending the Federation; Gainey and Foldhazi would be forced to surrender to the Federation for a second time in 8 months. 

Gainey would eventually be allowed to create a demilitarized Alpine Union in the north of the SPN with many of the remaining Meowtopians and Garfeans; the Alpine Union, however, became a democratic nation and eventually entered into an alliance with the United Federation. Gainey became a part of the West Mendotan Government with Jacob Monday, and later it's president. He was Vice-President of the United Federation under Monday and was a crucial part of the Administration. When Rydon Foldhazi created the New UNSC, Gainey aided their establishment and pushed for allaince with them; a policy which Monday eventually supported. 

Upon the eventual outbreak of Prairie War III, Luke Gainey was a supporter of the Allies and a supporter of the United Federation Government-in-exile, though not a member. The with no military of the Alpine Union's own, Gainey used the country's economy to purchase a small amount of equipment for an expeditionary force and provided economic support to Manona, West Mendota, the FWR, and the Federation Government-in-exile. Apline troops, under Gainey, landed in Operation Downfall and he was present at the re-establishment of the Federation Government. He publicly supported Jackson Deminsky's Alliance Party. 

Luke Gainey was, throughout his entire tenure, one of the most influential citizens of the Sun Prairie Nations. His warm and jovial personality, consistent reinvention of himself, and everlasting determination and enduring willpower made him one of the most formidable people to ever be a part of the group.