The Hegemon

This position was featured in Orson Scott Card's novel Ender's Game. In the novel, the position of Hedgemon was the political leader of Earth. The Hedgemon, along with the positions of Polemarch (responsible for the International Fleet of space warships), and the Strategos (responsible for the overall command of solar system defense), was one of the three most powerful people alive. Because of a belief in their inherent luck and brilliance, all three positions were filled with Jewish people - an American Jew as Hegemon, an Israeli Jew as Strategos, and a Russian Jew as Polemarch. The defeat of the Formics by half-Maori Mazer Rackham changed this position. Bean was given the title of Strategos by Peter Wiggin after he assumed the Hegemonship.

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