Achille Starace

Achille Starace is the current leader of the Italian Social Republic, the leader of the Italian Civil War, and the former head of the MVSN under the Kingdom of Italy.

Born in Sannicola, Apulia in 1895, he was the son of a Neapolitan merchant’s daughter and an Neapolitan officer. Starace was trained at a young age fitness, discipline and other important skills that would shape his life. He lived a relatively uneventful life, until 1916 when at the age of 21 he was taken out of college and drafted into serving in the Neapolitan army to fight against the Savoyard uprising. During the war he earned many medals for his heroic service, but was ultimately wounded by an enemy artillery shell.

When returning home from the war because of his injuries in 1917, he remained in the hospital for 3 years. In 1920 in a political rally held by Benito Mussolini in Naples, he enlisted in the Blackshirts and joined Mussolini in his quest to unify Italy. Starace demonstrated himself when reactionary protesters ambushed his battalion outside of Genoa in 1921, where he saved Mussolini’s life from a potential assassin. He was quickly elevated to the head of the blackshirts, and worked closely with Mussolini.

When the Kingdom of Italy was formed in 1922, Starace was chosen to lead the MVSN, a newly formed paramilitary force to enforce fascist law and act as a militia force. Starace would oversee several raids on monarchist rallies, stomp down dozens of protests and riots, and defend Turin from a large reactionary uprising.

During World War II Starace’s work did not change much. When the war was over, he continued his work, and assisted in rooting out modernists in Italy. In 1948, he prevented the Rattleboneists from organizing in Reggio Calabria, and had managed to arrest and execute Giuliana Geedbeani, the current leader of the Rattleboneists. In 1951, to stop aging, he received sea sponge injections.

In 1961 after the Papal States and the Kingdom of Italy merged, Starace was fiercly against it. He publicly stated “This is an outrage to the Italian people, who fought with blood, sweat, and tears to see a fascist Italy. Italy’s soul has been betrayed.” After making this statement Starace went into hiding, fearing Pope Francis may want to persecute him or arrest him for his anti monarchist sentiment.

Sometime in 2026, Starace would slowly begin working to reconnect with other PNF and fascist leaders to discuss a coup or even secession from the Papal States. Securing an alliance with Amedeo Aosta and the Free State of Turin, and with the Novus Ordo, Starace would organize the several former leads and form the Republican Fascist Party, an underground political movement. 

Starace received garrison support in almost all of northern italy. He established his command post in Venice, and helped other cells work to be central to Venice. Soon, a network of fascist command posts all across the north was formed, with Starace as its head. On October 21, Starace would declare independence, and all the other cells declared independence hours after. Starace formed the Italian Social Republic and asked all loyal cities to join him. One by one, his cells would be unified under one banner. The Manifesto of Verona was written and ratified, highlighting Starace as the Republic’s first head of state, organizing the laws of the state, and formally declaring independence from the Papal States.