Colonel Vladimir Sanders

Vladimir David Sanders, born September 9, 1890, to an American father and Russian mother, spent his early years working for the Southern Railway Company. When America began to collapse in 1908, Vlad lied about his age in order to join the Kentucky Militia as a private. Although hasty promotions were not uncommon in this period, his ascent to the rank of Colonel was so swift that many have suggested it was influenced by his mysterious, likely familial connection to Tsar Nicholas II, who exercised a great deal of power in the region at the time.

The Colonel's greatest achievement was negotiating a gift of Tathor Root from the Delaware Empire in 1911 in order to help power the Tunguska device of the future Kentucky Federal Commonwealth. He was also an early proponent of demarchy, arguing that secret societies like the New Underground invariably controlled the outcomes of supposedly free elections.

Despite this, he was in practice more of a monarchist, writing in 1913 that he wished his son Bernard to inherit rulership of the KFC when he came of age. This was prevented by the Demarchic Constitution created shortly after the Colonel's death in 1922, but by chance, his son's name was chosen by a Kleroterion machine fifty-eight years later, and he attained to the same seat his father once sat.