Have you ever wondered how hard it is for a rich individual to take control of a country using his money and connections?
News flash, it's actually really hard. Making the people of the country believe in you and elect you as the leader is one thing but making the corrupt politicians all around the world agree that you now rule the country is completely different.
The first blockade that I faced while trying to officially take over the country was the fact that countries all over the world found out that the massive earthquake that the entire world experienced during me and Magneto's fight came from Genosha.
So the first thing that came to their tiny minds was that Genosha was trying to invent nuclear weapons or some other super weapon to become a nuclear country. That of course made a lot of countries alert.
Most of them wanted control of Genosha and the millions of mutants living in it to increase their own nation's power. At this point, most governments knew about mutants and aliens. And most of them were really paranoid and controlled freaks to try to gather power to resist any future rebellion or invasion.
I could understand their mentality. I mean when you live in a world like Marvel where anything can happen at any time, you can't exactly have a good night's sleep without having some kind of a plan if anything goes wrong.
And the governments of most countries were making those plans by cutting open mutant and alien bodies and stealing any technology they could find their hands on. They were desperate. They needed to give their people some kind of hope or at least some kind of icon like Captain America.
And Genosha was the easiest way of currently gaining access to millions of active mutants, millions of potential research materials.
So the government especially the US and Russia fought tooth and nail to get access to Genosha. The US government because they wanted more power including getting several powered mutants under them and Russia because they wanted to know what happened to the sentinels they helped Trask make.
But of course, they didn't win against the power of well-spent money and the high enough political influence of Rudeus. Well then again, I did have to spend about one-fifth of my entire fortune to completely settle the political battle.
But I didn't care about money anymore. With Zoya, some of my future knowledge, and my Golden Rule perk, money just kept flowing into my accounts.
Genosha remained as a separate free country for metahumans while I got dual citizenship in the island country along with my US one. As for becoming its official 'king', I didn't really bother.
I wasn't gonna waste my carefree life by becoming a boring king and working all day. No, instead a council was set up headed by Selene to rule the island country.
The council consisted of the people who were either extremely loyal to me or mutants who genuinely wanted the betterment of the nation and the entire mutant-kind.
By the way, the word mutant was replaced in all the nation's documents and archives with the word metahuman. Even the terms mutant power or mutant ability were instead advertised to the population as quirks.
The Genoshan government under Rudeus' leadership was trying to completely change the people's thinking about mutants. Along with the vast rebuilding of the nation, there were also campaigns about metahumans being the same as humans, just with a gift from God, a unique quirk.
The word mutant was slowly being transformed into slang because of their targeted campaigns and instead, metahumans were becoming the norm.
Videos and Images about mutant harassment and inhumane mutant torture along with illegal experiments were released all over the global media channels and the internet to try to gather public opinion for metahuman kind.
Most people all over the world knew about the existence of mutants before this. Most of the people had heard about them but there were a few who didn't believe in their existence, treating it like a fairy tale.
But these huge campaigns made it clear that there were super-powered humans living among the people. Even many official governments and high-positioned politicians accepted the existence of the mutants in front of the public erasing any doubt the people had.
This brought about a huge change as general public opinion fractured mostly into three groups.
One advocated for the freedom of the metahumans saying that they should be given the general rights as any other normal people.
The second group of people was against them denying the existence of mutant kind saying that a cure should be made to cure their 'sickness' while until then they should not be allowed among the normal people.
The last group on the other hand demanded that metahumans should be allowed to live their own lives freely while it should be made sure that they would not be able to use their powers in public.
It was a good thing that most of the social media platforms weren't invented yet, or there would have been the biggest-ever social media battle between the people of the three different factions.
However, I was just happy to see that the people who supported Metahumans were in the majority. This made my future plans way easier.
I had already passed almost all the policies through the US Senate I needed to get my master plan in motion except one. I was soon going to try to pass this policy as well, but I was sure that it would be opposed like never before.
I knew that if I tried to pass this new policy, I would be opposed not just by different sections of the government that I still didn't have any control over but also by all the numerous secret societies that controlled the world like the Ten Rings, the Hand, and even Hydra.
That's why I was waiting for the right time. I would pass this last required bill at a time when the government would not be able to say no. I was waiting for a global threat-level disaster to emerge which even an organization like Shield wouldn't be able to handle.
Anyways, as I was saying, the council ruling Genosha currently was doing a very good job. It not only had Selene as its leader but also had representatives from the previous government of Genosha, Callisto as the representative of the Morlocks who had also settled on the island as its citizens.
I had made very clear as the 'god and guardian' of the nation that there would not be any discrimination among metahumans for their appearance, powers, or anything of that sort. I had strictly banned any kind of discrimination or racism in the country whatsoever.
Of course, there were a lot of people who didn't like that, but they were all shown the door to our newly made anti-quirk prisons that we had constructed to punish criminals.
The ruling council even included Ororo as the representative of the X-men in the country. This was mainly because I thought that she could actually become a good ruler with time and could do some good for the people here as well.
Of course, the bald professor tried to nominate himself for the job but I respectfully declined by saying that he was more needed in his school than in the political council of Genosha.
Vanessa and Psylocke didn't want any responsibilities in the government whatsoever. They instead were happy to do field jobs like being spies to enter enemy territories and gather information or just plain old corporate sabotage.
For some reason, Vanessa had even started calling themselves the Deadly Ninja duo. And I thought I was a chunibyo.
Emma also wanted to be on the political council. She literally gave a bl*wjob trying to get that position. But of course, I as the sigma god didn't give in. All she got was the vacant position of the CEO of Meta International...
Wait, now that I think about it, that position is extremely powerful too due to the sheer amount of wealth and influence the company has. Tchh, should have taken her an*l virginity too for that.
Anyways, I think I am doing quite well with making my plans and dreams into a reality. Maybe I can afford to go on a date or two to relax after all.
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