Septimus Sertorius

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Early life and career
Septimus Sertorius was born on 24 Summersend, 1768, at the Taios Regional Medical Center in Taios, Epileo. His mother, Quirinia Lactuca, was born in Taios, Epileo as well, being from a family that had lived in Taios for generations. His father, Opiter Sertorius, was a native of Cor Urbis. They met while Quirinia was traveling to Taios for a business trip, and got married 11 months afterwards. Septimus was born only a year after their marriage.

Septimus Sertorius only lived in Taios until he was three years of age, when his family moved to Cor Urbis so that his father could be closer to his workplace again. Sertorius has often recalled his early childhood as being uneventful. "We all suffered during the occupation, of course," Sertorius would remark once, "but thanks to my father's business connections, we were a little better off than most."

In 1772, Sertorius's family would move from the North-Gate district to the East Hills Neighborhood of Cor Urbis, where they would stay until Sertorius moved out.

Education
Sertorius began attending the East Hills Elementary School in Cor Urbis at age five, where he would go on to have an average upbringing for the time. Sertorius has reminisced how his family was always lucky to have a steady supply of food and clean water, and has claimed that the childhood memories of seeing his classmates go without food while he had just enough "shaped many of [his] views today."

During his primary education, Sertorius would often earn average grades, especially during middle school, which he considered to be the hardest years of his childhood. He would join debate clubs, drama clubs, and trivia clubs, but never participated in a school sport. He would graduate from East Hills High School in the class of 1786.

Immediately after graduation, he would enroll in the Cor Urbis Northern Community College, as his family wasn't able to afford a full four-year tuition to the coveted Aidian National University. After getting his associates from the community college, and when he and his parents had saved up enough, Scaeva would then enroll himself in the aforementioned university.

While at ANU, Scaeva would participate in several international programs. One such program took a group of students to tour the Nadris Dominion. On this trip, Scaeva noted how well-off the Nadris people were compared to their Aidian counterparts. He'd also participate in another program that allowed a very small group of students from around the entire nation go to nations abroad. "We visited Provident Nation, New Leinster, even the AFU. The entire experience was eye-opening for me. Here I was, living as an indentured servant in isolation while others around the world were living free and full."

After graduating from ANU with honors and earning a Bachelor of Arts degree, Scaeva would enroll in the Cor Urbis School of Law, a school that many consider to be one of, if not the, most coveted and exclusive school in all of Aidia. He made it in, being the final name on the acceptance list, and eventually earned his Juris Doctor after coming 5th in his class.

Senate Career
During his trip to the Nadris Dominion, Sertorius Scaeva decided that he needed to become a politician so he could help the lives of Aidians be more like those in their occupier's. To that end, shortly after graduation, Scaeva made a bid at Cor Urbis' 2nd district, who's senator had been unpopular with his constituents for decades. However, thanks in part to Nadris influence, the senator won the district again in the election of 2000. Scaeva would have a mediocre stint as a political journalist as he waited for the Election of 2005. This time, Scaeva ran with the Sociales Democratici party instead of the Plebes party, even though at the time the Plebes party was slightly more popular. Partially due to the incumbent's assassination (it was later revealed that the Nadris had hired hitmen to eliminate the senator for not keeping his promise to them) a year before, Scaeva was just barely able to win the seat against the new Nadris-picked senator.

Scaeva immediately went to work, drafting and proposing radical legislation to the Aidian senate, including bills that would have given the nation univeral healthcare and higher education. However, the Nadris would constantly throw these more radical bills out, calling them too unrealistic to be achieved with Aidia's allowance. Things like this would constantly happen to the young senator and his party, as the pro-Nadris party constantly struck down attempts to put through both radical and moderate reforms. Frustrated, Scaeva's first term, and second, term was mostly unsuccessful, however his attempts didn't go by unnoticed.

Near the end of his second term, the Sociales Democratici party leader, who was Nymphidia Bassa at the time, approached Scaeva and asked him to attempt to replace her in the Sociales Democratici caucuses when she stepped down. He agreed, and he very easily secured the position of party leader when the caucuses came and went.

As he was party leader, when the 2015 elections came, he was automatically enrolled as the Sociales Democratici candidate for the presidential election. Support for the senator was high and was getting higher, and when it came time for the 2015 elections themselves, he narrowly won the office, as he lost the first round but secured the win after the second. The Nadris, fearing an outrage if they didn't go along, approved the election results, hoping that Scaeva would play by their rules. The election also meant that Scaeva was the first president to not be from the pro-Nadris party since the Nadris took over Aidia.