Guðrið Aakarstroym

Guðrið Aakarstroym (born in 1640) is a Hurmu Norse industrial economist, academic, and politician for the Coalition for Democratic Humanism. Currently the Minister of Finance in the third cabinet of Daniyal al-Osman (from 1702). Minister for Natural Resources (1690–1702; Spiik, al-Osman I–II).

Growing up in Stormark, Guðrið Aakarstroym and her family experienced discrimination for her atheist religion in a Vanic-dominated milieu. Until the Auspicious Occasion of 1651, her family had connections with Elwynn and Shireroth, from where they received regular reports on the Humanist cause. After the Auspicious Occasion, Aakarstroym and her family experienced further discrimination due to the Storish intelligence agencies labelling them as "Livvists", with Aakarstroym being forceably removed from her parents. She never knew what happened to her parents thereafter. Three years later, at the age of 13, Aakarstroym was released from the orphanage as she was now a legal adult. She decided to fake patriotism to Stormark to give herself opportunities to leave Stormark and join her Humanist kin in Benacia or Eura. With joining pro-Haraldite women's organizations, Aakarstroym was then given the funding to go to further education, and starting university in industrial economy at the age of 17. Thereafter, she graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1660. This have her the opportunity to go to the University of Lakkvia for a master's degree, which she graduated in 1662, whereafter she returned to Stormark, taking up residence in Haraldsborg.

She then worked as an industrial economist at the Storish import and export monopoly company, Sameinaða Erlendur Kaupsýsla Einokun Félagið (SEKEF). Rising in ranks, she was then offered an industrial doctorate programme, which she accepted and undertook 1665–1669. Her dissertation revolved around the economic logistics of mineral and metal extraction from the bedrock, with regard to exportation, in comparison to the costs of importing the same.

She then taught part-time at the University of Kaupang for two years, while also working at SEKEF's Lakkvia and Craitland office in Kaupang. In 1673, she became head of SEKEF's department of trade relations with West Amokolia, and visited Benacia, for the first time in her life in 1674, returning regularly in the years thereafter.

By sheer luck, she was present in Brandenburg when the Storish state collapsed, and the Franco-Batavian emperor entered a coma. In the midst of the confusion, she stayed there, as she was literally unable (and unwilling) to return to Stormark. After a few weeks, Elwynnese forces had entered West Amokolia, and Aakarstroym met with representatives thereof. Initially, she was put in a prisoner-of-war camp as she had a Storish passport, but during interrogations, her humanist fervour became evident, as well as her anti-Vanic views and Hurmu ethnicity (and language and cultural skills). It was determined that Aakarstroym's self-identity was true, and she became an informer for Benacia Command with regard to where SEKEF and Storish assets outside Stormark might be found.

She joined the Nationalist and Humanist Party in 1686, and was dispatched to Hurmu with the formation of the Hurmu Trust Territory in 1689, where she helped form the Coalition for Democratic Humanism the same year. She also set forth the plan for how the Southern District would form and operate, including the occupational therapy, rehabilitation, and de-programming campaigns of the Southern District. In 1690, after Hurmu had been formed by the merger of the Hurmu Trust Territory and Lakkvia, she was asked by the interim prime minister Jan Spiik to become Minister of Natural Resources, to aid the new-born country build its economy and plan ahead. After the 1690 elections, she stayed on the government, now under Prime Minister Daniyal al-Osman, as minister of natural resources until 1702, when she was "promoted" to Minister of Finance.

One of her first tasks as minister of finance was to order the report into how Hurmu would set up its own gold-based currency, in accordance with the results of the Order of the Holy Lakes referendum on the question. It was expected that that report would be finalized in 1703, with a proposed bill.

Name

Her name is pronounced /gʉɾɪ ɒːkarstrøym/, similar to "goo-ree awk-ar-stroym"