John Van Heller

John Van Heller is the leader of the Farmers Party in Saridan. His leadership has led the young party to the national stage.

Childhood
Van Heller was born to a strict and traditional Duntrekker family in rural parts of Kaap. Van Heller attended a religious grammar school and then a religious high school. While in high school he explored politics and his idealogy became increasingly radical. He attended college and after graduating returned to his home in Kaap. He purchased a farm only a mile from his parents land.

The Farmers Manifesto (Die Boere Manifes)
The Farmers Manifesto, Die Boere Manifes in Duntrekkans, was a 10 page essay that Van Heller wrote two months after graduating college. The essay describes an ideal nation run by Duntrekker farmers. In the essay Van Heller argued that strict government rules and regulations would be unnecessary in a nation with virtuous citizens. Van Heller argued that industry and big business plagues virtue and stains the goodness of human nature. He argued that farming builds character and that all people can achieve happiness and success through a combination of farming and education. The essay is summed up by the line, "Self control and personal regulation far out perform the rules of a government; The good nature of human beings must not be plauged by the evils of industry; Government is an unnecessary entity, the people could and should govern themselves."

The AFF (The Army of Free Farmers)
The Farmers Manifesto rapidly gained popularity among educated farmers that shared Van Heller's idealistic view of the world.