Nochcalima

Nochcalima Centehua Xocoyotl
Greak Speaker
Reign	23 June 1983 – present
Coronation	30 September 1991
Predecessor	Zouaylacatz Tonallan
Born	(1954-10-19) 19 October 1954 Tzopilopan, Zacapican
Spouse	Temilo Motolinia (m. 1991)
House	Tlatozolli
Father	Moctezuma Topilitquin
Mother	Centehua Ocuichyollo
Religion	Tlecoyanism

Nochcalima Chicahuac (Nochcalima II Centehua Xocoyotl, b. October 19, 1954) is the sitting Great Speaker of the United Republics of Zacapican, the 13th Justice to occupy the position since the foundation of the CTZ. She was raised to the bench on the 23rd of June 1983 at the age of 29 as the replacement to Zouaylacatz Tonallan, who was retiring at the age of 79 years after 25 years as Great Speaker. To date, Nochcalima has served the longest continous streach as Great Speaker of Zacapican, approaching a total of 40 years at the highest unelected position in Zacapican. Her reign has been marked by sustained economic growth, technological advancement and escalating foreign policy investments as Zacapican expands its engagement with the rest of the world academically, economically, and politically. She was an attendee of the First Kiso Summit in 2019, and is today the only unelected head of state of any nation affiliated with the Kiso Pact.

Nochcalima has been described as a Conservative Calpollist, and has generally ruled in opposition to many proposed reforms while modifying and implimenting others. Her stated principal goal in office has been to curb the dysfunctions of mid-century Zacapine democracy and increase the efficiency of the government model. In particular, Nochcalima is responsible for the overhaul of election law in Zacapican, implimenting strict campaign finance restrictions, public funding for elections, and an amendment to the voter registration and identification system, all with the aim of reducing political corruption and lobbying within the democratic system. Nochcalima has stated her support for public accountability of Justices, Speakers and Great Speakers as a necessary measure to achieve efficient government, but has so far resisted most attempts by Zacapican's democratic institutions to assume powers of oversight over these independent offices using her judicial authority to block such attempts. Economically, Nochcalima is a hardline Calpollist and firmly espouses the tenets of the Calpolli system as the only acceptable system for business and industry in Zacapican, expanding nationwide development and diversification of Calpolli industries and the so called "Calpollization" of previously absent or underserved service industries. Nochcalima has strongly opposed privatization of the economy even at small scales, blocking two bills in the legislature on such grounds in 2004 and 2007, and sucessfully pushing for a constitutional ammendment permanently blocking further privatization initiatives which was ratified in 2018.

Early Life

Nochcalima was born the youngest to three sisters to Moctezuma Topilitquin and Centehua Ocuichyollo in the early morning of October 19th, 1954, in Tzopilopan Central Hospital. Her mother was a historian and graduate of Tzopilopan City University, engaged in post-graduate studies, while her father was a Justice working under the Speaker of Tzopilopan Altepetl. Moctezuma was a member of the Tlatozolli, a pre-CTZ aristocratic lineage aligned with the peasant movement in the 18th century and entrenched as a family of Justices in many cities of the Mixtepemec region. He had met Centehua Ocuichyollo as she was studying the legal traditions of the Mixtepemec for her dissertation, and the two wed in 1949. Nochcalima grew up with her older two sisters, Xiloxoch and Yaocuixtzin, earning the name Xocoyotl (li. "Youngest Child". The family had a pet dog Itzlipilli who Nochcalima was very fond of, prompting Nochcalima to keep a series of pet dogs continuously throughout her life.

Education

Nochcalima entered into the public Calmecac in Tzopilopan from the ages of 6 to 12, where she was described as a creative and energetic but not scholastically motivated child, earning mediocre grades through those years. According to her mother, Nochcalima threatened her parents claiming she would join the monastery and disavow her family name after they imposed draconian measures at home in an attempt to improve her school preformance. However, a tutor hired by her father Moctezuma was able to get through to her and convinced her to follow in her father's footseps and become a Justice. Her family moved to Tecolotlan in 1967, when she was 13, and she was then enrolled in a prestigious district school for secondary education. From the age of 13 to her graduation at the age of 17, she received consistently good grades, compliments from her teachers and constant tutoring in legal studies. She would be accepted in Mazatzin Tecuitlahtoani school of law in Tecolotlan thanks to the commendations of her teachers at the age of 18, graduating with distinction in 1975 at the age of 21.

City Service

Nochcalima returned to Tzopilopan at the insistence of her father to serve as a lieutenant to the state's Tlatoani following her graduation. The latter was reportedly moved to have a Tlatozolli in his service, considering it a mark of his own status. She was appointed to a comfortable position of high status, officiating articles of city business in the Tlatoani's stead while the lord themselves focused on matters of the higher state government. Her family celebrated her accomplishment as a mark of having gained a position many work their entire lives to attain right out of law school, however Nochcalima grew to resent it relatively quickly. Nochcalima later publicly stated that the Tlatoani had mainly appointed her for the prestige of her name, not for any of her accomplishments or the merits of her hard work in law school. She also cited Tlecoyanist scripture, arguing that she had not cultivated her flame organically and had not earned her accomplishments, making them empty and without worth. Nochcalima vowed to find a way out of her high position in Tzopilopan so that she might set out and prove herself on her own merits as a Zacapine Justice, much to the despair of her family. Nochcalima's biography, published in 2008, revealed that only her eldest sister Xiloxoch took her side in this matter, and that this would begin a decade long feud within the family that would only be resolved after Nochcalima's ascension to Great Speaker.

Nochcalima's opportunity would come in the form of the 1977 Mine Collapse which occurred in a copper mine outside Tzopilopan Altepetl and triggered a crisis in work safety regulations all across the Mixtepemec and wider Zacapican. In conducting the Tlatoani's legal affairs through this crisis, Nochcalima met the CTZ Secretary of Labor Kamo Axallca, sent by Great Speaker Zouaylacatz Tonallan to resolve the crisis in Tzopilopan and report back to the capital to prepare a nationwide remedial strategy. Nochcalima and Kamo hit it off, beginning a multi-decade friendship and professional relationship, and through this connection Nochcalima found a way out of Tzopilopan and into the halls of power in Tequitinitlan, through the Secretariat of Labor.