Viktor Koval

Viktor Koval is currently the Czar of the Third Svalmarc Imperium. He is known as a former political writer but also known as one of the most successful Czar's in Svalmarc's history, tied with Josef Dvorák who made big advancements in defence and land expansion.

Family
Viktor Koval was born into a royal family with privileged means. The family is related to the Kovařík family via Mateusz Kovařík mothers side of the family. The family is known to be the maternal side of the Royal Family of the Svalmarc Imperium and they are known to be very wealthy. Because of the status of relation towards the Royal Family of Svalmarc, they lived a life full of fame. Viktor Koval lived in a mansion alongside 10 other family members consisting of his grandmother, father, uncle, aunt, cousins and brothers.

Early life
During this time of his life he had not experienced growing up with a mother unlike many other children, although this had not impacted him a lot as he spent most of his time with his father, brothers and cousins instead and losing his mother early on in his life has made it much easier as mourning the loss was much easier at an early age.

As he grew up at such a young age he was home-schooled by one of his uncles, Nikolai Kovařík, who is known as the family historian. He was taught mostly about the politics and history of Svalmarc as it is crucial for a royal family member to be well aware of the nations past and government. Naturally, this had made Viktor become very interested in history and politics, by the age of 8 he had started to research and teach himself about international politics and history too.

Education
As Viktor Koval reached the age of 10 he was starting to learn about the duties of the Czar as well as the Czar's royal advisors. As a child he started to idolise his distant cousin, Mateusz Kovařík, and he often talked about how he one day wanted to be Czar, although many of his family members broke news to him all the time that it would be highly unlikely that he would become the Czar, due to him only being a distant cousin to Mateusz Kovařík.

When Viktor Koval turned 11, he had began a new journey in education but still related to the topic of politics as his uncle, Nikolai, had started to teach him about policies, laws and constitutional rights. This was because he was heading closer towards the teenager stage of life where following and understanding the laws and constitution started to become more important. But as a family of the Royal Family it was also extremely important that he had understanding of policies which fuelled his dreams to becoming Czar one day as he wanted to be someone who was involved in creating policies and providing more law and order. Despite being told over and over by his family that becoming Czar was impossible, he still did not give up on trying to be involved in the leadership of the nation as he then vowed to instead be an "advisor" of the Czar one day.

As Viktor Koval turned 13 he had started to become more independent in studies and research, because of this his family tutor, Nikolai Kovařík, had decided it was time to stop guiding him in his education. Because of this Viktor Koval started to do more research about the nations within the region and slowly drift away from learning and started to want to get more involved. Because of this he kept requesting to his father to speak to Mateusz to make "suggestions" although he was told he was not yet ready to do such a job and he is too young. This made him write letters instead to the Czar of Svalmarc (Mateusz Kovařík) where he would make countless of suggestions. One day he had received a letter back from the Czar saying that his suggestions are "muchly appreciated" but it would be best if he had waited till he is much older and had even more understanding in politics. Despite this, Viktor had discovered a new passion in writing about policies and law and order and he started to write novellas which he would never publish but was more personal projects as a hobby.

As Viktor Koval had turned 16 he had began to write books which he would publish about his life growing up in the Royal Family and what it was like as someone who is still young to live such a privileged life and expresses his past and current curiosities of not only what life would be outside of the royal family but also what life would be like as a member of the Royal Government. Viktor then enjoyed doing this very much and decided he would make a career out of this whilst he still dreamed about becoming a Royal Advisor.

Career
At the age of 18, Viktor Koval continued his hobby as a political writer through the means of a career where had published many other books about Law and Order, his interpretation of the nations history and how he feels about the history and politics of nations across the world. This helped Viktor express his opinions and allowed him to continue his thinking about the political world. This had then caught the attention of his distant cousin, Czar Mateusz Kovařík, where he received commendation on his literature and had even thanked him for providing some inspiration and ideas for improving the nations government in his book about law and order, this commendation was passed to Viktor personally at a family reunion. Although this never happened as sadly Mateusz Kovařík had passed away that same day.

Soon after he had became a writer, Viktor Koval had found himself selected to the be Czar of Svalmarc after his distant cousin and former Czar, Mateusz Kovařík, passed away. This also happened as he was voted into in to the throne by the royal family and would be responsible to continue the legacy of the Royal Family despite him not being immediate family. Viktor was deeply saddened that his idol had passed away although he felt honoured and happy that not only had his dream of being Czar come true, but he was very honoured that he was selected by vote to be the new Czar.

Achievements as Czar
Viktor Koval had made many achievements as Czar as he restored and expanded the Senát which is now called the Ustřovník (Ministry). This allowed the nations government to work more efficiently and producing more legislature and change to the nation, with the Czar giving the final say on all proposed legislature. This enabled him to create the nations 4 ministries of Internal Affairs, National Development, Culture and Defence.

Not only had he achieved this, but he had kickstarted the productivity and efficiency of the workforce as the city of Ostrovka was given a new mayor who had started off a new city layout and gave opportunities to the nations workforce. This has caused a huge increase in national productivity, labour and growth.

This was not all though, as Viktor had seen the establishment of a new military and mercenary force with increased strength and abilities, but also expansion to the military in general including defence structures, military personnel and military funding.

In 1107, Viktor Koval marked a momentous achievement by securing Lucid Korolia (Timogrod) as a vassal. This was revealed following the sale of Devenburg to Aurea, where Lucid Korolia (Timogrod) was subsequently transferred to Svalmarc as a vassal state. The result of this diplomacy emerged through two meetings, one between Viktor and Olary, and another between Viktor and Tim Lucid. With mutual agreements in place, Lucid Korolia had transitioned into the status of a vassal under Svalmarc.

1107 was also marked by another achievement after annexing Zlatoport into Svalmarc. This accomplishment was caused by the split of Nova Zemja (NZ), which left Zlatoport as its remaining territory. The integration of NZ into Svalmarc became publicly known after an unknown meeting between the Lord Protector of NZ and Czar Viktor Koval, where the terms of the integration were negotiated.

Retaining the title of Lord Protector within the Imperium, the NZ territory was granted a form of semi self-governance. In this arrangement, the Lord Protector assumed a leadership role in the newly established Sejm. This agreement granted NZ to enact laws and establish a constitution, provided that these regulations align with and do not contradict the laws and constitution of Svalmarc.. The Lord Protector, while exercising authority, operates under the government and Czar of Svalmarc.