Carl Benjamin (Independent Republic)

Carl Benjamin (born September 1st, 1979) is a British politician and current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Before becoming Prime Minister in 2017, Benjamin was a popular online political skeptic known by his alias "Sargon of Akkad".

Early Life
Carl Benjamin was born on September 1st, 1979 in the United Kingdom. During his late teenage years, he worked a janitorial job. By the time he started posting to YouTube, he was working in a corporate office.

Game Development
On March 14th, Carl Benjamin began a kickstarter campaign to fund the creation of a video game Neocromancer. Benjamin took the role of programmer and co-designer for the game. On June 16th, 2016, with the game not being completed, everyone involved was refunded.

Starting Sargon of Akkad
On October 13th, 2010, Carl Benjamin created the Sargon of Akkad Youtube channel and did not post on it until June 21st, 2013. It was here that Benjamin began to express many of his political views. Benjamin reached 100,000 subscribers by April of 2015. Carl Benjamin became an influential channel on the youtube political sphere before becoming Prime Minister.

Political Career
Benjamin announced in early 2018 that he will be running in the 2017 UK general elections. After months of campaigning, many of the mainstream media payed no attention to Benjamin, believing that the newcomer had no chance of truly winning. On June 8th, 2017, Benjamin shocked the world by winning the majority of seats in Parliament and winning the popular vote with 15 million votes. Many major news outlets referred to it as "the biggest election upset in British history" Later that day, Benjamin officially became Prime Minister.

Brexit
Only a few weeks after taking office, Benjamin officially pulled the UK out of the EU on June 27th, 2017. Benjamin said "Theresa May nor the conservative government wanted Brexit and were dragging it out as much as possible, I gave the British people what they truly wanted."

Defense of Freedom of Speech
Following the arrest of Mark Meechan for a joke in which he got his pug to salute as a Nazi, Carl Benjamin fully got rid of the Criminal Justice and Public Order act of 1994 and the Racial and Religious hatred act of 2006. Many on the left took issue to this, to which Benjamin said "While these laws have good intention, they are being abused to arrest innocent people such as Mr. Meechan. These acts are not needed as if someone does harm a racial minority, they will be justly arrested." As Prime Minister, Benjamin has taken as much action as possible to defend freedom of speech and has stated "Freedom of Speech is the most important Western value"

Foreign Relations
Tristan da Cunha - Benjamin has been very hard on Tristan da Cunha, even going as far as to call it a "shithole" after they pursued closer ties with the EU after Brexit.

The European Union - Even after Brexit, Benjamin has been able to maintain close ties with certain EU members such as neighboring France, Poland, Greece, and Spain. But relations have become tense between Germany and Benjamin's UK over Brexit

The United States - Benamin and Trump have both grown close relations due to their anti-globalist policies. Benjamin and Trump agreed on many notions together such as approach to immigration at the 2018 G7 meeting.

Personal Life
Carl Benjamin is married and has 2 kids, he identifies as an Atheist and lived in the city of Swindon.