Akilah Samara
| Lady Akilah Samara | |
|---|---|
| Lady Keeper of Samara | |
| Assumed office 22 December 2023 | |
| Monarch | Sawalif Samara |
| Preceded by | position created |
| Personal details | |
| Born | August 24, 1981 Samara City |
| Citizenship | Thraxian[a] |
| Parents | Amjad Samara |
| Relatives | Sawalif Samara[b] |
| Occupation | Social media personality |
| Known for | @qita_qanun livestream |
| Website | qitaqanun.zar |
Lady Akilah Samara (born August 24, 1981) is a social media personality and the current head of government, titled Lady Keeper, of Samara. Lady Akilah is the daughter of the late Lord Amjad Samara, the local lord of Samara Island under the rule of Zargothrax. Knowing that, under Thraxian law, Lady Akilah would be unable to inherit her father's land and title, Lord Amjad used Shapur XIV's cat laws to leave his land and title to his cat Sawalif; allowing Akilah to rule by default.
Early life[edit | edit source]
Lady Akilah was born in 1981. She received private tutoring, officially until the age of 12 when Thraxian cultural norms dictated that the education of girls should finish. Akilah continued, however, to receive tuition in secret until she was 16. After this, she began to assist her father with local issues, also in secret.
Social media career[edit | edit source]
After her father's death, Lady Akilah began to broadcast videos of her father's cat Sawalif, now the legal ruler of Samara, making "decrees" via batting his paws at pieces of paper on which options were written. The stream was broadcast on an account called @qita_qanun, which translates literally as "cat law". The livestream quickly became popular, with Akilah offering viewers the opportunity to "petition" Sawalif by submitting a question and options to be shown on the stream. Any resident of Samara Island could submit a petition for free; but non-residents were able to submit petitions by subscribing to the channel financially, though viewing the streams remained free.
On the 11th December 2023 stream, which were broadcast in Arabic but had live subtitles available in both Persian and English, included a remote-viewer-submitted question with one of the options being "declare independence". This option was "chosen" by Sawalif. Eleven days later, King Shapur officially granted the island independence.
Political career[edit | edit source]
Once Samara was granted independence, Akilah was "appointed" Lady Keeper of the island "by Sawalif". Sawalif himself was given the title of Lord Protector. These two titles have been described as corresponding to the positions of heads of government and state respectively. After independence, the @qita_qanun livestream continued, though it is only broadcast twice a week, and not all decisions on the island's governance are featured.