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Administrator Mäkilä has a history in politics, but nothing of this caliber and terror respect. Once before, Mäkilä was nothing more than a bureaucrat, forced to deal with the day-to-day happenings of Finnish foreign policy. With the Transhuman Arm of the Combine Overwatch at his side, the whole of Finland stands ready to march to the stars with him.

Mäkilä was elevated to the status of Ulkoministeriö after a long bureaucratic career, climbing through the ranks from a simple mailroom attendant, all the way to the highest position in his field, Minister of Foreign Affairs. When Black Mesa struck, it was Mäkilä who helped keep his citizens safe, through diplomatic efforts between nations to provide food, industrial support, mercenary assistance, and more to the people of Finland. When Our Benefactors came to pull Earth into the fold of the Combine, it was Mäkilä who sued for peace, not the President, nor any leaders stationed in the Helsinki Infested Zone. The Administrator is a fantastically skilled orator, able to bridge the gap between any conversation or argument he finds himself in. Secondarily, he responds to every command with a presumed eagerness, able to relay all orders delivered unto him by the Sectorial Advisors and Planetary Administration. Administrator Mäkilä, with political skills and these mantras by his side, has successfully evaded the Culling and has performed acceptably in the eyes of the Sectorial Advisors.

Mäkilä presides over the Conscription program within City 62 and has ensured that the operation will remain intact. Academy 'ARTERIA', as last reported, is operational. Mäkilä is performing acceptably and is to continue standard directives.

Current directives are as follows:
ADVISORIAL ORDER C62/AO:014 - ARTERIA REORGANIZATION PROGRAM.

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EXCERPT RELEASED BY THE BUREAU OF ENLIGHTENMENT.
BROADCASTED TO THE CITIZENS OF THE REPUBLIC OF FINLAND, c. 2004
“Invaders! Cease your assaults, your onslaught on our virgin land for a moment of your time! I am Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gideon Mäkilä, speaking to you on a Turku radio station, and I come with peaceable intentions. You have besieged our capital and have killed our sons and daughters for long enough, and the people see that resistance is futile. I beg of you for acknowledgment of Finnish surrender. Come to Turku, invaders, and allow me to negotiate with you. I trust that you will be as peaceable as I have been to you."

"And, to the people of Finland. Cease your gunfire. Stock away your rifles, your hunting knives, your armor. The Lion of Finland must kneel to this 'Universal Union.' Bu-"
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And so, standing in the office of the bastardized Turku Cathedral, with its sprawling Nexus infrastructure, Gideon dreams of republic, dreams of freedom, yet knows that life is better than it was under the Combine. Housing, work, and amenities, all are provided by the Benefactors, in exchange for the very thing that makes us human. True, Gideon mourns it, anyone would. He misses singing Maamme with his work friends after a long day's work in the Ministry. He misses his wife, he misses his children, and yet, he is forced to put that aside for his greater purpose. He is eternally grateful for the Legislative Assembly and knows that he can work to make his Sector better for his subjects, to give them that slightest sense of home. All the while, dreaming of republic.

For now? Gideon waits. He watches, as thousands of young men are pressed into service and brought to and from City 62 and the Helsinki Infested Zone for training in the Military-Arm Arteria. He works, to make City 62 the greatest that it can be, drunk off on the adoration of his citizens. Yet, too, he fears that the truth of his cowardice and that Turku radio station will reach the ears of those most impressionable, and start a revolution. resistance group grows bolder by the day, and Gideon's mental health is suffering because of it. Arteria patrols are going missing, and graffiti and propaganda leaflets are becoming more widespread. The people are beginning to grumble, and even the slightest grumble and lead to civil destruction.

Gideon works hard to ensure that his citizens are happy where they are, fearing they might remember that fateful day in that Turku radio station, where he refused to fight for the dignity of Finland and made a decision that may not have been his in the first place. Until then, as this shell of a once dignified man fights for his redemption, the people of City 62 chant in his honor. They chant for the work they are given, the amenities provided to them, the housing they are gifted, and the food they are sustained with. As "A Universal Triumph" soars through the streets of Turku, they shout...

"GIDEON BUILDS!"

"GIDEON PROTECTS!"

"GIDEON PROVIDES!"

"GIDEON REIGNS!"

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