Ari Rahikkala

Ari Rahikkala is a respected micronationalist with a long history in Istvanistan, Shireroth and Apollo Sector nations. He has been famous off-topic personality, once working as the bartender/equivalent of dozens of different national off-topic fora. The climax of this time was the creation and promotion of the Grand Unification Bar in Istvanistan.

His more serious cultural contributions consist of some short stories, the different incarnations of Straylight (Straylight has, in chronological order, been a duchy, a barony, and a county), and multiple varied little pieces of different media. In addition, he's eager to provide technical support to micronationalists in computing-related matters and has created a few pieces of software over his career that have been of varying importance. The most significant one was the IMN Bank, an early automated micronational bank back in the time of the Flying Islands of Jasonia.

In real life, Rahikkala lives in Finland and is currently serving in their military. He's a supporter of free software, a student of computer science, a reader of science fiction, and in many other ways a geek.