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First, you’ll meet with Wigmar Enphine, the Cake Plotter. Conniving, crafty, and unscrupulous. This former congressman was the major character involved in the events that led to The Diet Shutdown from the politician's side.
Congress was a puppet institution at the time that only served to endorse the corpse’s policies, and had an advisor role at best. Decades earlier, the state handpicked the best performing companies within sectors of national interest and gave them monopoly reign within their industries. Said companies were mandated to have a minimum growth percentage and be competitive on a global scale. There were hefty penalties to those who failed to meet their quotas.
With the country’s growth getting stagnant for the first time in years due to a global recession, years of mismanagement and lack of accountability due to shifting blame to not get punished, a general deterioration of industrial equipment to cut costs, and employees overworked and collapsing to meet the quotas. There was a general animosity against the regime from all social strata. Which was exacerbated when, in response to this decline, Gordon Sr. made the punishments even harsher for the next fiscal year and forced the country's youth to work for said companies in an infamous governmental program that is better left forgotten. Penalties now included jail time and the capital punishment (Officially).
This left the wealthy businessmen worried that their companies might fail, or worse, that they’ll be blamed for their failures. That’s when Wigmar Enphine started the secret meetings within Congress and the Company CEOs (that were more liable than the owners). These CEOs would be ousted for participating in these secret meetings. If the Price family didn’t vouch for him, Wigmar would be dead by now. Funnily enough, his second coup attempt was successful, it was orchestrated by him, your brother Gordon Junior, and the people who would be known as the Five Heavenly Pillars.
Wigmar Enphine was later imprisoned for his third attempt years later, after Gordon Junior refused to hold elections in such a tumultuous time in the country. He only had some notoriety within the Prancijanian Elite, but the average person only saw ‘Gordoninho’ as the de facto leader against your ‘father.’
