Lucrèce Sellitti

Lucrèce Guiscardo Regnard Sellitti (12 September 1945 - 30 June 2003) was the president made dictator of the Northern Tyrrhenian Union (present-day Northern Tyrrhenian Federation) from 1978 to 2003.

Early Life
Sellitti was born in Corsica.

Early Political Career
Served in the regional government of Corsica, then towards the Union House where he became a senator.

As Decemvir
After the Tyrrhenian Civil War ousted the Jacquemond-Scimone Dynasty from power, republican politicians who were prominent leaders of the republican faction formed the Republican Decemvirate, which was comprised of members of the One Tyrrhenian Party, and the Tyrrhenian Republican Party. Sellitti was a member from the One Tyrrhenian Party.

As Dictator
When Rodolphe Giacalone started implementing more liberal policies, Sellitti initiated a coup against him and was made president of the country in 1978.

When the Sardinians, Ligurians and Piedmontians protested the devaluing of their resources due to his Economic Augmentation Act of 1980, he declared their protests as a threat to the nation and labeled them as "communists." Subsequently, he initiated three crackdowns on the respective regions in 1980, which was called Wednesday's Bloody Sea. From this incident, he reformed the constitution to legally declare himself president-for-life.

In his last 23 years, he ruled the country with an iron fist, which is shown through rigid control of the regions beyond Tuscany.

Downfall
Having enough of his authoritarianism, citizens from all over the Union rebelled in 2001 in defiance, culminating in the Tyrrhenian Spring. Not long after, the Spring intensified into a full-blown revolution, eventually overtaking Florence. Seeing him lose his entire grip on the country and possessing no desire to be incarcerated for his crimes, he committed suicide by gunshot on 20 June 2003. After this, the new government ensured and implemented reforms that disestablished his authoritarian policies.