Emma Bunnell

Her Highness
Emma Margaret Bunnell Princess of Emeralkia
CGR CGP SPM Service Ribbons: RB RL RA Hero of the Gaplan Revolution
Official portrait, 2023
3rd President of Gapla
Assumed office: 1 September 2022
Deputy President	Chelsea Chen
Predecessor	Chelsea Chen
7th Deputy President of Gapla
In office: 3 February 2022 - 31 August 2022
President	Chelsea Chen
Predecessor	Chelsea Chen
Successor	Chelsea Chen
2nd Prime Minister of Emeralkia
Assumed office: 19 August 2021
President	Emma Bunnell (self)
Predecessor	Tessa Huffmire
Queen of the State of Emeralkia
In office: 6 March 2019 - 18 August 2021
President	Chelsea Chen
Successor	Tessa Huffmire
Personal Information
Full name
Her Highness Emma I, Princess of Emeralkia
Born	Newport Beach United States of America
Citizenship	Gapla United States
Political party	Free Rightist Party
Residence	Southern Emeralkia, Emeralkia, Federated States of Gapla
Religion	Irreligion
Education	National Academy Irvine High School
Military service
Allegiance	Federated States of Gapla
Battles/wars	Gaplan Revolution Northern Emeralkia Conflict

Emma Margaret Bunnell, styled as Her Highness Emma I, Princess of Emeralkia in the Monarchy of Gapla, is a Gaplan conservative politician, dancer, and pianist who is currently the President of Gapla. Throughout Gapla, she is known for being a co-founder of Emeralkia, one of the largest and most influential Gaplan states, which she grew and co-founded with Tessa Huffmire.

Emma is also known for being a significant leader in the Gaplan Revolution, and was one of the four who were awarded the title of Hero of the Gaplan Revolution for her bravery in standing up against Michael Hubbard, who was then the enemy of the Gaplan people. In addition, she was one of the first members of early Gapla, and the contributed to the nation’s growth significantly through her contributions to her state as well as pioneering much of Gapla’s early government and activities, including interstate sessions. Her political career marked a pivotal moment during her run in the 2022 Gaplan presidential election, where she narrowly lost the presidency to her political rival Chelsea Chen. After poor performance by the People's Liberal Party in the Chen administration, she was elected President of Gapla in a landslide victory at the 2022 Gaplan general election against Chelsea, who was the incumbent President at the time.

Due to her outspoken opposition to and bravery against Michael Hubbard, she is considered by many to be a symbol of the Gaplan Revolution and the anti-Hubbard movement as a whole. In addition, she served as the President of Hubbard Sucks, an organization dedicated to opposition to Michael Hubbard. Outside of Gapla, Emma is known for being an award-winning dancer, including winning awards for classical dance at the Youth America Grand Prix, an international ballet competition, and being an entrepreneur known for launching several businesses, including a bakery which was one of the first to accept Gapla Dollars in exchange for food products.

Awards and honors

The following is a list of honors, domestic and foreign, received by Emma Bunnell:

Awards and Honors of Emma Bunnell

Domestic honors

All from the Federated States of Gapla.

• Commander of the Gaplan Revolution (CGR)
• Commander of the Gaplan People (CGP)

Service ribbons

All from the Federated States of Gapla.

• Service Ribbon for Bravery, First Class with Distinction (RB)
• Service Ribbon for Loyalty, First Class (RL)
• Service Ribbon for the Arts, First Class (RA)

Foreign honors

From countries other than the Federated States of Gapla.

• Order of Sahamitra, Great Companion (SPM, Vishwamitra)

Politics

While originally a right-authoritarian, popular consensus shows that Emma has shifted libertarian over the years.

Through 2019, she was a vocal voice in support of Donald Trump and claimed that he would be easily re-elected to serve a total of eight years in 2020. Popular Gaplan media also claims that she was part of the reason Wyatt Baek left the American Democratic party for the Republicans in 2020. In 2020, she often criticized Gavin Newsom and his COVID-19 restrictions, often posting long rants against the California governor. In addition, she participated in anti-communist activism and supported a conspiracy theory that stated that Chelsea Chen's family was granted money by the Chinese Communist Party for her socialist activism, although this theory was actually a joke by Wyatt Baek taken too seriously and was proven false in 2022.

However, throughout 2021 and 2022, Emma has shown a shift libertarian and her politics is much closer to bleeding-heart right libertarianism rather than right-authoritarianism.

Micronational career

First Emeralkian Conflict

Emma participated in the First Emeralkian Conflict in March 2019, resulting in a joining of Emeralkia to the union and the creation of the unified Principality of Gapla and later the Federated States of Gapla.

The royal standard of Emma Bunnell, as first princess.

After Emeralkia was denied access to the United Micronations due to overpopulation on the number of principalities (Snakaris, Gapla, and Phoenix, then independent), Emeralkia rebelled as declared their bedrooms as territory, leading to the United Micronations using a treaty to merge into a unified Principality of Gapla.

During this period, there was no clear Emeralkian monarch, which would lead to the Emeralkian Civil Wars.

"Hubbard Sucks"

Emma was elected as the second president of Hubbard Sucks, winning a close race between her predecessor Wyatt Baek.

Hubbard Sucks is considered to be a Gaplan nationalist organization by some members of the left, although most of the left also opposes Hubbard. The organization was created because of the events of the Gaplan Revolution and Hubbard's banning of the Federated States of Gapla. The organization was considered to be important in Gaplan history as it led from the transition of Gapla from a friend group to a global micronation with a purpose.

Highway 81, the reign of power, and the civil war

During the early days of the 2019–2020 school year, the State of Emeralkia had a monopoly over the interstate sessions, having current superpowers Elemental and Folia Tail (then Emeralkia) as colonies. They also took over the "enemy state" of Kingdom City, renaming it to Highway 81. Serena Ali, the governor of Kingdom City, highly opposed this change, saying it was "bad for other countries [sic.] to power on my country [sic.]" after the Emeralkian colonization. Eventually, the Emeralkian empire came to an end after the Emeralkian Civil Wars and internal conflict inside Emeralkia.

Emeralkia endured a civil war during December 2019 and January 2020, eventually de facto splitting the state into two powers, with Queen Tessa and Queen Emma ruling opposite parts of Emeralkia.

The Emeralkian civil war

The flag of Emeralkia, the state that Emma co-founded with Tessa Huffmire.

Emeralkia soon became an Ozzahyan colony as Ozzah gained substantial power in the interstate sessions. There has been a long argument on who was the legitimate monarch of Emeralkia. Emma claimed that she was jealous when Wyatt Baek, the current President, had "greatly favored" Tessa with titles and recognition of legitimacy, however, outside observers argue that this argument is fallacious. Notably, Vera Sy has commented that it was impossible because "Wyatt had a huge crush on Emma at that time and it was actually more of the other way around."

Chickenopolis split from Emeralkia after a failed confession from Renaldo Chang, with Emma saying that "she wouldn't like a Chicken," which is notable because Renaldo's internal self-declared nickname was "Chicken" due to his state being named Chickenopolis (at that time) and him having a drawing of a chicken in front of his binder. Vera Sy has commented that she was "dissapointed that Renaldo is not Chicken anymore."

Ozzahyan and Elementalian takeovers

During February 2020, the States of Ozzah and Xadia rose to power after a series of compaigns, replacing Emeralkia after its corrupted status in the civil war.

Both states were incredibly active and used proxy states to gain more power in Parliament, it can be also inferred that the Socialist Worker's Party (now the People's Liberal Party) and the National Conservative Union (now the Free Rightist Party) were in competition because of this conflict. The states eventually collapsed and Emeralkia was returned as an independent state.

Elemental, and eventually Folia Tail (September 2020) rose to power and Elemental had conquered Emeralkia with the surrender of Emma to the Elementalians. Tessa was not in the class as she moved to another school, but would eventually reunite next year to see Tessa's anger at the decision.

Resurgence of Emeralkia

After the resurgence of Emeralkia in September 2021 due to Tessa's aggression at Emma for joining Elemental, Emma compromised and gave the Queen title to Tessa as an apology, however, Emma was head of government as Prime Minister.

Emeralkia resurged as a major power, but Elemental and Folia Tail still are major powers larger than Emeralkia. Emeralkia, however, is a major contestant in interstate competitions.