Džesika Jovanović-Smičić
Džesika Jovanović-Smičić (born Jessica Smith) was a Florian who had served as President in the year 1654 AN. She was the second person to take office as president and was the first female to hold office as well.She is currently the leader of the Florian Liberal Party and before she entered politics she was a supermodel.
Džesika Jovanović-Smičić was born in 1632 AN in Dragonmoor. She was raised there mostly during her early life despite moving to Northcliff to focus on her fledgeling modelling career. She never went to university as she was employed by Lingerie designer, Miss. Secret at the age of 18. After five years working the modelling industry, her passion for politics grew and she quit modelling to focus becoming a politician. She began her residency in the Presidents Manor in Northcliff as from 1654. It was to be an eventful tenure.
From the beginning her relationship with Shireroth was a complicated one. The Landsraad held an election for Steward (for the term 1654–1657) in early 1654. With a 7–2 vote, Waldemar Zinkgraven was elected Steward to replace Liv Dravot against Jessica Smith (received votes from herself and from Ari Lord Furniture). At the same time the War of Lost Brothers intruded rudely upon the Florian idyll and set in motion a series of catastrophic developments for the young republic. The firm conviction in many quarters exists that if Jessica Smith had been more resolute in supporting the aims of the alliance, and had held off from frantic attempts at extracting Floria from the war commenced in its defence, then the collapse of the Florian front might have been averted and reinforcements received, with admitted risks and difficulties, after the Battle of Carama Bay. Instead, by attempting to negotiate a separate peace on terms that amounted to an ignominious capitulation, Jessica saw her country torn apart, as Shirerithian-led forces in the south vowed to fight on, whilst the Jing - unsatisfied with Florian adherence to the armistice, subjected Northcliff to a brutal siege. The political situation in Floria thereafter unravelled completely, with the Florians finding themselves under attack from both sides in the war and caught in a civil war amongst themselves. A chaotic situation into which new and sinister political forces were to emerge.
In 1655 AN, she was supposedly executed by the terrorist group, First Order of the Florian Republic. An event which caused much distress worldwide.
However it was revealed that Smith was in fact alive and well, and escaped the Florian War by using a double during the attack. She was purportedly the mistress of the Krasnocorian king Jovan I, a development that prompted incredulity amongst those who first heard of it. It was reported that it had taken time for her to come to terms with and embrace her Corian identity - entirely without the least element of compulsion. Smith is considered to be the most intelligent Florian-born person in the world by a large margin, with a tested IQ of 161. This has been considered as one of the reasons why she was elevated to the presidency at such a young age. The veracity of this statement is subject to review.
