Lionel "Leo" Halvidar (born March 3, 1991) is the 65th and current President of the United States, and the first colonial to hold the office. Halvidar led the United States through its Second Civil War and Third Mexican-American War. Born in Freemont, California, Halvidar spent his early days as a relatively unknown engineer, leaving for the Martian frontier in 2026, and spending much of the century leading the terraforming effort on Mars. Halvidar was a founder of the Interplanetary Trade Commission, a Union Party leader, Resident Commissioner to Congress during the 2110s, and the longest serving Chairman of the ITC. He advocated for the integration of the colonies into the Union; he promoted the modernization of the economy by adopting the Quantum Economic Model and constructing a global