Editing Nicholas Brennan (section)

==President of Laeral==
As President, Brennan pledged to be pragmatic and avoid ideology. His first Prime Minister, Chen Ting-fei, led a Progressive-Conservative coalition with broad majorities in both houses of the National Assembly. The main focus of Brennan's first two years in office was on restarting the economy. Within his first month in office, Brennan sacked the head of the Bank of Laeral. He imposed moderate austerity measures while passing a tax reform bill which increased government revenue. Meanwhile, Brennan focused on increasing international trade and boosting employment, although he did engage in high-profile criminal prosecutions of various bankers. In 2012, the Progressive-led coalition retained a reduced majority in the Assembly of Commons; a cabinet reshuffle led moderate Conservative [[Gérald Barre]], who retained good relations with Brennan, to be appointed PM. 

During his first term, Brennan also passed the Renewed Transportation Act of 2011, which imposed major reforms on the state-run railway system and increased spending on airports and port dredging and the Securing Nuclear Materials Act of 2012, which imposed greater standards on nuclear power while increased funding for the industry.

In 2014, Brennan ran for reelection, facing LPP Representative [[Corinne Pelletier]] in the second round. Brennan defeated Pelletier with 55% of the vote, yet concurrent legislative elections were mixed, and a lengthy government-formation process ended with [[Tanvi Misra]], a Progressive, being appointed as prime minister at the head of a Progressive-Conservative-Socialist coalition. 

Facing increasing difficulties in domestic lawmaking, Brennan's second term focused on foreign relations rather than domestic issues. In the New Year's Address of 2015, Brennan announced his intentions for Laeral to join the [[World Assembly]], an undertaking that would require Laeral to be in accordance with [[General Assembly]] regulations. This was met with broad support from across the political spectrum, giving Brennan a broad mandate. [[Marie-Claire Beringer]], [[Liu Mei-han]], and many others were assigned to achieve this goal. Misra's unwieldy Progressive-Conservative-Socialist coalition was brought together around the common goal of WA accession. Dozens of pieces of legislation designed to bring Laeral into compliance with WA law were passed, including criminal justice reforms, military and police reforms, and others. In 2017, Laeral was accepted into the World Assembly. 

As the 2018 Laeralian General Election approached, Brennan endorsed [[Tanvi Misra]] for [[President of Laeral]]. Brennan presided over the response to the 2018 Laeralsford Blackout, the murder of Representative Christian Zhou, and the ensuing riots in Cordeliers. When Misra failed to proceed to the second round of the presidential election, finishing in third, Brennan endorsed [[Liu Mei-han]] over [[Damien Vendorme]]. Brennan's term as president ended in January 2019.