Yazov Novikova

Yazov Novikova, often refereed to as Usagi is the CEO of Sosya, Patriarch of the Novikova Clan and an advisor to the Central Bank of Osorra. He is among one of the most powerful figures in the country although in recent years he has given up much of his power to his daughter, Klava. Yazov is knowing for being one of the country's most eclectic figures, having dabbled in music during his youth. Yazov is also known to have idiosyncratic religious and political beliefs. In interviews he has described his religion as "Tanets Solstana, stripped of love, in its place speed and karma" and "the Yarovar backwardness in our faith must be replaced with the poetry of the Futurists". He believes we are heading towards a "noosphere" and is a heavily believer in the unification of man and machine through cybernetics. His political views have constantly changed throughout his life, he began as a Marxist but now it is unknown what exactly they were.

Yazov was born in 1953 to a family of military researchers located in a remote hamlet in between vast mountains. He went to a school for the children of military researchers. When he turned 15 he studied engineering in a special institute located in Cuzka. In Cuzka he began to dabble into politics and picked up the work of both domestic and international futurist writers. Yazov was supposedly fascinated by the ideas of Kapralov Artemiy Timurovich, particularly his vision to revive all the dead. He became a Marxist and became heavily involved with party organization. However he grew disenchanted with the ossification of the Osorrai Communist Party and its apparent rejection of many of Kapralov's ideas. He became an ecosocialist who called for a more decentralized version of socialism. He eventually wrote a dissertation on computational audio. At 22 Yazov secured his first job at a remote mental health hospital in a mostly native village. It is so far unknown what he did there but some speculate involvement in the Osorrai mind control program. He became extremely interested in cybernetics and Keshian philosophy. He published several albums during this time, using sound engineering to create "weird tunes". A few years later he left the mental health hospital and worked at a research institute in Kakhab. There he would hold various concerts and was believed to be working with the army on the so called OsNet. After the war he became the head of the rapidly growing new Osorrai game industry. He grew a network within the industry. When communism collapsed inn 1989 he used money from his cousin to conduct a leveraged buyout of the Osorrai electronic and defense industry, saving it from the fate that electronic industries in other Communist states had to face. He reorganized his holdings into a variety of firms, the largest of which was Sosya. Sosya would use experimental research to build a variety of software to enable governments to broaden their scope of social control and improve legibility of populations. During the 90s he also began the construction of Kakhab's new Central Business District and convinced the Osorrai military to base themselves within the CBD. Kakhab became one of the only cities in the country not to seriously decline due to his efforts, in fact booming rapidly in the 90s.