Snapisnapiestu
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A member of the formidable "snap" dynasty and great grandaughter of the remarkable snapier, she has earned her own reputation as a reforming communitarian.
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Beginnings
Born in McKillops Bridge to Magistrate parents snapest and snapu she was from an early age immersed in the culture and practices of Errinundrian Magistracy. Her high school results catapulted her into the Magistrates School at the McKillops Bridge Polytechnic where she majored in Communitiarianism and gained a Doctorate in Law with her thesis entitled "Care: Rights and Contributions in a Communitarian Society".
Early Career
Her first appointment was to the Magistracy in her home city but she soon found the clubby atmosphere limiting. It was during this time that she wrote her best-selling book, "Community Power", where she argued that Errinundera must complete its evolution toward a decentralised political system. In this system, power would be completely devolved to villages, towns and suburbs. Issues involving larger groupings would be resolved co-operatively between the smaller communities. Her book discussed several mechanisms for achieving such co-operation. She didn't shy away from the inherent problems in such a system for a nation of 4 billion people but argued that the potential for human development far outweighed the costs in political efficiency.
Belief into Practice
Tiring of the moribund culture of McKillops Bridge, she shocked observers by accepting the apparently low-status Magistracy in the small tree-town of Fanny Moo, famous for its radical community spirit. Her humane, communitarian and environmental decisions were well-accepted by the Fannies who renewed her contract several times.
From here she completed her most famous work, "Destroy All Monsters". Here she argued for a much more active role for the individual in the protection of Errinundrian communal values and endorsed the national practice of Corporate Torching. This was not as radical as it may seem: Magistrates since the Liberation allowed the practice of Corporate Torching to flourish through countless decision that, while not endorsing it, failed to condemn it. snapisnapiestu was part of a vanguard arguing that torching was sometimes necessary in a flourishing democracy.
Political Activities
As a Magistrate snapisnapiestu took a seat in the upper house of the national parliament in First Creek Falls, a seemingly incongruous role given her decentralist beliefs. She became active in several committees, most prominently Minority Encouragement, Sexual Equality, Community Development, Community Identity, Structural Reform, Foreign Affairs and Diplomatic Appointments. The last two committees indicated that she was beginning to widen her interests. At this time she wrote her third, most ambitious, and least accepted or understood book, "The Forest Project", where she imagined a world Forest, an expanded Errinundera. The general consensus was that she had become a victim of her own hubris.
Achievements
Despite her towering ambition snapisnapiestu does have many down to earth achievements. In particular she took leave of absence from Fanny Moo to visit Gaitan on the newly discovered Cuttlefish Island. The islanders wished to become part of Errinundera and snapisnapiestu facilitated a seamless legal transition.
This was followed up with her restructuring of the Sacred Tree Registry in Goongerah that had became a reactionary impediment to the fulfilment of its own charter. The reform of the Registry climaxed in the forcible removal of its then Protector of Sacred Trees, poplecti, from his office by cherry picker and grappling hooks, an unusual instance of one magistrate acting against another.
During this time she also completed a degree in Diplomatic Law from the First Creek Falls Lyceum, a further indication of the direction her ambitions were heading.
Personal Life
So far as anyone can tell the only activity snapisnapiestu indulges in outside her public life is sleeping, an activity she tries to keep to a minimum.
