Charles Edgar Garnier

Charles Edgar Harland Garnier (16 February 1911 - 9 August 1995) was a Magisterian revolutionary and politician who was the paramount leader of Magisteria from 1946 to 1992, serving as the President of the Central Executive Committee during that span. Ideologically a Marxist, he also served as the General Secretary of the Magisterian Socialist People's Party during his time as leader. Under his rule, Magisteria underwent multiple fairly liberal domestic policy reforms; Garnier's consistently effective five-year plans led to Magisteria's rise as a world power, as well as allowing imports of Western consumer and cultural products, giving Magisterians greater freedom to travel abroad, and significantly reversing Plamondon's secret police state.

Garnier, the son of a working-class factory worker, was born in Victoria (now Kollontai) and adopted communist and anti-imperialist principles when he was 15 years old, joining the Magisterian Marxist Republican League's youth league, the Young Republicans of Marx, in 1928. After graduating in 1932, he took part in the December Revolution in 1933 in which the Magisterian Red Army of Liberation (MRAL) overthrew the fascistic Ruskinist regime. Shortly after the Revolution, Garnier was appointed as Minister of Foreign Policy and rapidly rose through the party ranks to become the youngest member of the Politburo in 1936. Following Plamondon's assassination in 1946, Garnier, who had been chosen Vice President of the Central Executive Committee, took de facto control of the country. Garnier ultimately won the SPP leadership election in March of that year, and made a speech in which he criticized Plamondon's totalitarian leadership. He then initiated various changes, ushering in a less repressive era in Magisteria.

Garnier was the mastermind behind Magisteria's rise to global superpower status by the twenty-first century. His five-year plans were widely recognized as the most effective in any command economy in the world. Additionally, he introduced universal healthcare, a robust social welfare system and made access to education universal.

Garnier was a popular public personality in Magisteria as well abroad. His foreign policy of establishing economic and diplomatic ties with both Warsaw Pact and NATO nations, as well as attempting to form a united military and economic alliance, displayed his commitment to reconciling all sides despite of ideological differences. With a highly favourable reputation abroad in both Cold War blocs, he received a total of 95 foreign decorations, including the Legion of Honour and the Order of the Bath.