Wyatt Baek
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Wyatt Seungri Baek | |
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 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Sovereign Prince of Gapla | |
| Assumed office 20 August 2023 | |
| President | Chelsea Chen Emma Bunnell |
| Preceded by | Chelsea Chen |
| In office 28 February 2019 – 22 July 2023 | |
| President | Wyatt Baek (self) Chelsea Chen |
| Succeeded by | Chelsea Chen |
| Speaker of the Provisional Government | |
| Assumed office 31 January 2024 | |
| President | Chelsea Chen |
| Minister of Technology and Human Capital | |
| Assumed office 31 January 2024 | |
| President | Chelsea Chen |
| 1st President of Gapla | |
| In office 28 February 2021 – 2 February 2022 | |
| Deputy | Shaun Madillo Chelsea Chen Emma Bunnell |
| Preceded by | Ian Shin (Gapla-Phoenix) |
| Succeeded by | Chelsea Chen |
| In office 28 February 2019 – 4 January 2021 | |
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| Preceded by | Chelsea Chen |
| Succeeded by | Chelsea Chen |
| 5th Deputy President of Gapla | |
| In office 5 January 2021 – 27 February 2021 | |
| President | Chelsea Chen |
| Preceded by | Chelsea Chen |
| Succeeded by | Shaun Madillo |
| 1st Speaker of the National Assembly | |
| In office 3 October 2023 – 30 January 2024 | |
| President | Emma Bunnell |
| Preceded by | Renaldo Chang |
| In office 1 September 2022 – 30 March 2023 | |
| President | Emma Bunnell |
| Succeeded by | Renaldo Chang |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Seoul, South Korea |
| Citizenship | |
| Political party | Free Rightist Party |
| Residences | New Gaplastovia, Gaplastovia Federated States of Gapla |
| Alma mater | Royal Gaplastovian Academy Stanford University OHS |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Website | monarchy wyattbaek |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Federated States of Gapla |
| Battles/wars | Gaplan Revolution Northern Emeralkia Conflict Iana-Phoenix Conflict |
Wyatt Seungri Baek, styled as His Royal Majesty Wyatt I, Prince of the Danubias and Baron of Elemental in the Monarchy of Gapla, is the Sovereign Prince of Gapla, a right-libertarian politician, and a computer programmer. Widely considered by many to be the most important founding figure of modern Gapla and its symbolic leader, he restored Gapla from a period of dormancy in an old nation he was involved in known as Gapla-Phoenix, and effectively created the foundation for the modern nation of Gapla.
He has also served as the President of Gapla for much of the country’s beginnings, guiding it towards becoming a self-sustaining democracy. While not technically Gapla’s founder, he is recognized as one of Gapla’s four founders by the Gaplan government. Alongside Emma Bunnell, he was also a pivotal leader in the Gaplan Revolution, serving as President of Hubbard Sucks and receiving the honor of Hero of the Gaplan Revolution. He is also one of the two members of the Order of the Gaplan Star, Gapla's highest national honor.
Outside of Gapla, Wyatt is a computer programmer, participant in competitive mathematics, entrepreneur, author, and freelance website designer. He has won national and international awards in mathematics competitions, such as being titled 2nd place in the state of California in the United States Mathematical Kangaroo, earning a gold medal at the International Mathematics Competition, and qualifying the American Invitational Mathematics Examination. In addition, he has created a variety of businesses, including WSB Websites, a freelance website design service, and has written books about website development and micronationalism.
He currently attends Stanford University Online High School, an online high school within Stanford University providing advanced and university-level coursework to high school students.
Personal history
Wyatt was born in the Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, South Korea on January 13, 2009.
He was interested in politics and corporations at an early age, eventually creating his own business (albeit without profits) called WRUSA.
Outside of micronationalism, he participates in competitive mathematics and competitive programming.
Although a newcomer to competitive programming, seeking to pass USACO Bronze this year, he is experienced in competitive mathematics. He has competed under the Russian flag at the International Mathematics Contest and Russian Mathematics Olympiad, winning a gold medal in each, as well as competing under the American flag at the United States Mathematical Kangaroo, winning second place nationally. He is the assistant captain of the Gaplan Mathematics Team, serving alongside famed captain Virat Varada.
Wyatt has participated in USACO under the Gaplan flag, with custom country identifier "GPL," but it is unknown if his scores will be validated and posted on the official website (with a Gaplan country code) due to the risk of elimination by authorities unaware of micronationalism.
Pre-micronational career and Gapla-Phoenix
WRUSA and Totoro
In 2012, Wyatt revived WRUSA and created a "ranking" system. Since he didn't quite understand the concept of a company, while he called it a company, it was more of a group, because it didn't make any profits. It offered a movie rating system, an education system, and a few games. He later revived the Totoro Foundation in 2018 which allowed for WRUSA's first profits as a conglomerate corporation that offered its own currency ("credits") and allowed anyone to create their own business.
Soon, a lot of people in his class signed up and created their own business, trading the currency "credits" around the school. While it has been banned by the administration several times, including by Michael Hubbard, Wyatt never stopped his business and this is where his minarchist and right-libertarian views likely came from.
United Republics of Gapla and Phoenix
In 2015, along with Ian, Wyatt founded the United Republics of Gapla and Phoenix, his first micronation that he didn't know was a micronation.
It was the predecessor to the Principality of Gapla and eventually the Federated States of Gapla.
Its max population was 20, and it was extremely unprofessional, with ID cards from crayons and its territory as a "secret base" inside the school. In 2019, in an attempt to revive Gapla, he couped the government of Gapla-Phoenix successfully using the help of a few spies and recreated Gapla as the Principality of Gapla.
Political party history
The following is a list of Wyatt Baek's historical political affiliations. He was never affiliated with any party in Korea.
Gapla and Gapla-Phoenix
- Union Party (2015–2016)
- Gaplan Union Party (2016–2019)
- Liberal Union Party (2019–2020)
- Free Libertarian Party (2020–2021)
- Free Rightist Party (2021–present)
United States of America (informally)
- Democratic Party (2015–2019)
- Republican Party (2019–2020)
- Reform Party (2020)
- Libertarian Party (2020–present)
Mainstream micronational career
Contribution to Gaplan history
Wyatt revived modern Gapla in the form of the Principality of Gapla on February 28, 2019, after learning about Sealand.
His renewed interest in micronationalism led him to create a website, MicroWiki, and MicroWikia pages for Gapla. He was the founding figure for many new Gaplans that had joined in that time, and although he wasn't the true founder of Gapla, he considered himself the true founder of Gapla for a period of time. He is still known as the Founder of Gapla today.
During June to early August 2019, Wyatt focused on expanding foreign relations, increasing professionality, and basically spending hours on Gapla each day to improve it.
"Hubbard Sucks"
Wyatt was appointed as the first president of Hubbard Sucks, but he was not able to serve a second term due to his loss to Emma Bunnell.
Hubbard Sucks is considered to be a Gaplan nationalist organization by some members of the left, although most of the left also opposes Hubbard. The organization was created because of the events of the Gaplan Revolution and Hubbard's banning of the Federated States of Gapla. The organization was considered to be important in Gaplan history as it led from the transition of Gapla from a friend group to a global micronation with a purpose.
COVID-19 pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Wyatt led the Gaplans to a more online setting, moving all of the sessions online and moving major government meetings online. He claims that the pandemic was important for the digitalization of Gapla and connection to the greater worldwide community.
While Hubbard Sucks was still active and relevant during the online portion of the school year, it slowly decayed as the need for it was being abolished.
In this pandemic, he has written a few books on micronationalism, web development, and Gapla. His first book on Gapla inspired Excelsior.
Miscellaneous roles in Gaplan history
Role as Sovereign Prince and session master
Wyatt, in his capacity as Sovereign Prince of Gapla, under macronational laws controls the assets of Gapla, although a bill in Parliament may soon change that. He is also the session master of Gapla, the "gamemaker" of all of Gapla's interstate sessions.
He doesn't have a state, although he states that he plans to create one, but he will unable to participate in sessions due to his position as session master. His Special Administrative Region (SAR) of Gaplan Antarctica that he administers is not eligible to participate in sessions.
He was the former President of Gapla, at one time in Gaplan history being simultaneously the monarch and the head of government. He was also elected as the Speaker of the National Assembly in the 2022 Gaplan general election.
Role in the left-right divide
Wyatt is a minarchist, a form of right-libertarianism. He usually scores at around 7 right and 7 libertarian on most political compass tests.
In this capacity, he has argued and advocated for the Free Rightist Party and against the People's Liberal Party, notably Chelsea Chen and visiting members of Excelsior. Due to his political views, he was banned from the Excelsioran Discord server.
Awards and honors
The following is a list of honors, domestic and foreign, received by Wyatt Baek:
| Awards and Honors of Wyatt Baek |
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Domestic honors
All from the Federated States of Gapla.
- Order of the Gaplan Star (OGS)
- Commander of the Gaplan Revolution (CGR)
- Commander of the Gaplan People (CGP)
Service ribbons
All from the Federated States of Gapla.
- Service Ribbon for Bravery, First Class (RB)
- Service Ribbon for Loyalty, First Class (RL)
- Service Ribbon for Science, First Class (RSc)
Foreign honors
From countries other than the Federated States of Gapla, chronologically from order received.
The President's Volunteer Service Award (PVSA, United States)
Order of the Polar Cross (PC, Westarctica)- Prime Minister Farmer's Challenge Coin (Westarctica)
2022 Friendship Medal (West Who)
Order of Sahamitra, Grand Companion (SSM, Vishwamitra)
Second Anniversary Commemoration (Penn Federal Republic)
Grand Order of Excelsior (GOE, Excelsior)- Order of the Laurel, Third Class with Distinction (EOL, Excelsior)
Order of Diplomatic Service (DSO, Juniperia)
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