General (Lady) Nicholas Cangrejo, Mother of New Canciona by the Grace of the Great Nephrops and Toleration of the Giant Star Lobster

(The author makes no apologies for the length of the title.)

General Nicholas Cangrejo, also known as Lady Cangrejo, is the benevolent dictator of New Canciona. Her full title is General Lady Nicholas Marie Cangrejo, Mother of New Canciona by the Grace of the Great Nephrops and Toleration of the Giant Star Lobster. For obvious reasons she is rarely referred to in this way, even on official documents.

She has officially named her son Bianca as her heir, but given that she is a Generalissimo, chances are the general population will ignore this.

Early life
Nicholas Langoster was born in the far north of RCM, in Estoy Mas Arriba Que Nadie, in 1882. Her father, Rosa Langoster, was a worker in the silver mines. When he was home (which was not often) his conversation primarily consisted of how those -ing Inutilians should learn a little -ing respect instead of being so -ing jealous of the -ing silver our nation has so fortuitously been granted by the -ing Great Nephrops, don'tcherknow, and those [censored] should stop sending -ing thieves into our -ing mines. This had the following effects on Nicholas: 1) she decided that the debate between RCM and Inutilia was extremely pointless, and if she ruled either country she'd put a stop to it very quickly; and 2) she wasn't too upset when her father was tragically killed by an out-of-control mine cart in 1890, when she was eight years old.

Her mother, Alejandro Langoster, was a devout Star Lobsterist. She tried to pass the religion onto her daughter. Unfortunately Nicholas was a born sceptic, and refused to believe all this nonsense about divine crustaceans.

In 1905, when she was 23, she married Bianca Cangrejo. It was because of him that she was persuaded, despite her scepticism, to later make Star Lobsterism the state religion of New Canciona. He wasn't particularly devout either, but unlike her he saw the risk of citizens being annoyed if the religion they were used to was abruptly disposed of.

Her mother died during the Scourge while abroad in Solis in early 1907.

Rise to Power
In 1908, Cangrejo began to feel the treat of Scourgi i trying to break into the RCM. Most of the people she knew were unimpressed by General Isabella Gamba's handling of the pandemic, and of the country in general. Cangrejo secretly made a small army of followers and their families, and sent secret telegraphs to George II of Fictia. She negotiated the free use of a small island to the north of Occidentalis Minor (then known only as Occidentalis). In October 1908, she and 400,000 Cancionans left the RCM and settled the island. Cangrejo named herself General, and took control of the nation, naming it New Canciona.