Rachel Berry

Rachel Berry
13th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Malgrave
2009-2018
Assumed office 16th October 2009
Preceded by	Nikola Tesla
Successor	Nadzieja Brzezicki
Born	August 29th, 1972 Epping, Malgrave
Nationality	Malgravean
Alma mater	Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (honorary)
Political party	Progressive Unity Party
Occupation	Politician, Actress, Singer
Spouse	Quinn Fabray
Religion	Serionite
Languages	Malgravean Ancient, Mystrian Common, High Kouralian

Rachel Berry (born August 29th, 1972) is a former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Malgrave from 2009 to 2018.

Early life and career

Rachel Berry was born in the Epping, Malgrave, she is the only daughter of April Berry, a nurse and Illya Sascha, a railway designer, growing up in the cultural district of Epping she quickly became obsessed with the theatre. Joining the Stage Door theatre company she was quickly recognised for her talent her first credited appearance being the role of Young Cossette in 1981.

After appearing in such a well known production at an early age Rachel took the decision to tour the country to increase the number of acting and musical opportunities, although, such this meant that she enrolled at several school as she travelled, it also meant she took on various roles in theatres quickly gaining attention for her stage presence and show stealing vocals. In 1989 Rachel was offered a place in the Royal Academy of the Dramatic Arts however she refused instead focusing on her stage career later expanding into the musical business when she released her first studio album in early 1991 which aided by her already popular stage career quickly became popular in the country.

It was during this time that Rachel first became inspired to get active in the political arena. In late 1994 Rachel was taking part in a charity performance in Karlino Central Station when members of the Patriotic Front detonated several explosive devices in the station, the attack which killed then Prime Minister Alicja Kowalska also heavily injured Rachel and shocked her into action, as an already active member of the Progressive Unity Party and a well known person in the country Rachel stood for parliament in the cultural district of Epping easily achieving victory against her opponents. Entering the political field meant that Rachel had limited time for her acting and singing career placing them on the back burner for the time being. Rachel quickly became known for her impassioned speeches in the House of Commons and in 2000 only a few years into her political career was officially announced as the Minister of Transport, a surprise considering the temporary responsibilities with making sure the countries transportation infrastructure could cope with the expected opening of the country to the international community, the extremely positive results shocked many fellow progressive and opposition politicians who had expected her to fail.

The stability of Rachel's life was to come to an end when in 2009 struck by a powerful terrorist attack and a large political scandal the then Prime Minister Nikola Tesla retired from politics shaking the foundations of the Progressive-Unity Party, more instability was to follow when instead of much favoured senior politicians Tesla favoured Rachel Berry and chose her to become Interim Prime Minister until elections were planned later that year a move which angered many politicians in the party which claimed that Rachel would lead the party into mediocrity and destruction. Instead Rachel started an extremely vibrant political campaign touring the entire country openly utilising her still high popularity as a performer and successful record as a local politician to her advantage she managed to retain the parliamentary majority of the Progressive-Unity Party.

Prime Minister

Moving on from her surprising election victory Rachel moved quickly to implement policies stated during the election campaign most notably increasing the pace of opening Malgrave to the international community both joining the World Assembly and becoming an active observer in the Coalition of Ponyist States. Rachel also sought to complete the work she had been doing as Transport Minister on an entirely new level, preparing the entire economy for integration with the international community she implemented a mass financing of current state-owned companies in order to pay for expansion into international markets, as it was feared that companies like MalAir lacked the facilities and inventory to compete with international airlines, such a stimulus has proven highly popular with Malgravean companies now actively competing in the world economy.

For the most part Rachel's tenure in power had been quite stable with limited engagements against insurgent groups in the country and growing relations with the international community most notably vast economic ties with Yohannes, this however changed when on April the 7th 2012 Rachel authorised Operation Tempest a military operation designed to completely dismantle the two largest insurgent groups in the country, the operation was successful with both the key leadership of the Malgravean People's Party and the New Malgravean Communist Party assassinated with lower to medium members of the organisation surrendering themselves in return for immunity from prosecution, the operation was not without controversy however with some criticizing the immunity deal and others claiming the successful operation has created an almost cult of personality around Rachel which she had furiously denied. Since then Rachel has also been incredibly aggressive in foreign affairs despite her parties non-interventionist stance, authorising Operation Infinite Reach an open military operation that authorises the Royal Malgravean Navy to engage military and merchant vessels belonging to known slaver regimes and Operation Open Hand an operation that was targeted specifically at Imeriata, giving her justification that combating slavery is relevant to the founding principles of the nation and it increases the reputation of the country in the international community.

Personal life

Family and romance

Rachel Berry is presently in a relationship with Quinn Fabray. It was a relationship that caused some controversy, as they were both senior members of government but over time became accepted by the population. Together they have had two children together.

Religion

Rachel is an active Serionite and a supporter of the Ancestral Study Group.

Views

Rachel Berry has been classified as belonging to the centre-left of the Progressive Unity Party, as she has called for continued levels of high taxation to prevent the accumulation of large generational wealth, however, refused to engage in further efforts to bring more of the economy under state control or create more cooperatives. On social issues, Rachel is considered to hold rather standard views as she has frequently given her support for the litany of measures which support equal rights to all species in the country.