Damek Kmitsan

Damek Kmitsan Дамек Кмицан (nr)
Official portrait, 1746 AN
1st Vod of Brezovo and Yavorina
Incumbent
Assumed office 23.XIII.1746
Born	1696 Zagorje,  Green
Citizenship	Nouvelle Alexandrie (1700s–1746)  Brezovo and Yavorina (1746–)
Spouse(s)	Katarina Kmitsan (m. 1724)
Children	3
Residence	Maple Palace, Preplava
Alma mater	University of Chambéry
Profession	Economist
Religion	Atheist

Damek Kmitsan (Neo-Retic: Дамек Кмицан) is a Brezovan and Yavorinian Vod since 1746 AN. Prior to assuming his monarchical functions, he was widely recognized as a global merchant and businessman.

Early life and education

Kmitsan was born in 1696 in Zagorje, into a working-class family. His mother, Silvana, was a retailer, while his father, Emilijan, worked as a carpenter. He spent his earliest childhood in the rural settlement of Ivunjc near Zagorje. Following the decline of his mother’s business, the family relocated to Nouvelle Alexandrie, settling in the city of Cajamarca, where Kmitsan completed his primary and secondary education. Recognized as an outstanding student, he earned the opportunity to pursue higher education at the University of Chambéry, where he completed both bachelor's and master’s degrees in economics.

Business career

After completing his studies, Kmitsan worked as an intern at several established trading firms, where he acquired professional experience and practical training in commercial operations. Through this period of apprenticeship, he gradually entered the sphere of overseas trade, in which he built his career throughout his twenties and into his early thirties.

In 1728, Kmitsan decided to establish his own company, Damécom, which primarily specialized in the trade of household appliances, industrial machinery, and automobiles. Over the course of almost two decades, the company’s business network expanded on a global scale. This extensive international networking enabled Kmitsan to establish contacts across the world, including connections with various Retic peoples, which would later prove instrumental in supporting the foundation and development of his own state.

Brezovo and Yavorina

Kmitsan expressed an interest in founding a Retic state colony during his discussions with Retic partners around the world, most notably Jone Sharka, whom he met in Chambéry in 1719. After conducting multiple exploratory expeditions between 1741 and 1742, he selected two northwestern Corum islands for settlement, later collectively naming them Brezovo and Yavorina. Kmitsan oversaw a four-year planning process addressing demographic, infrastructural, and logistical requirements prior to permanent settlement. On 23.XIII.1746, he formally declared independence and became the country's first Vod, marking the beginning of permanent colonization, the founding of the capital city of Preplava, and the establishment of the first government. In the early post-independence period, Kmitsan played a central role in directing colonization priorities.

Personal life

As a very young child, Kmitsan was baptized in the Alexandrian Nazarene Church. However, by the time he reached secondary school, he had adopted atheism and publicly rejected the existence of God.

In 1724, he married Katarina Kmitsan (née Catarina Quispe), whom he first met during their secondary education in Cajamarca. During his undergraduate studies, the two were not in contact; however, following his return from university and a summer spent at home, Kmitsan encountered Katarina again, leading to the renewal of their relationship. By the time he completed his master’s degree, the relationship had been firmly established, and Kmitsan and Katarina began living together in Mayenne.

The couple has three children: Leon (born 1725), Marchelo (born 1730), and Alfa (born 1734).

Kmitsan is a native speaker of Ocian. He learned Alexandrian and Martino during primary school, as well as basic Wechua, which he later described as particularly difficult and largely unintelligible to him at the time, especially as he was studying two other languages concurrently. During his university education, he achieved fluency in Istvanistani.

He developed a strong fascination with languages written in the Methodic script, most notably Krasnocorian. This interest led him to become a patron of the idea that Neo-Retic should be written in the Methodic script. In one of the interviews, Kmitsan stated that he and his closest associates were able to write Machiavellic languages using the Methodic script in order to make it more difficult for competitors to decipher their business strategies.