Since 1987, the Aerican Empire has been ruled by the first Emperor, Eric Lis. Born in Montreal, Canada, in 1982, Eric was a founding member of the Empire as well as the author of most of the current ideas central to the Empire. He is the founder of the Silinist church and of the Path of Forsteri and has been actively involved in all areas of Imperial development since the Empire's first days. Under his rule, Aerica has grown prospered, becoming efficient, well-known and vital without losing its core of good-natured humour and sillyness.
Eric boasts that he has taken classes in nearly every topic which humans teach, and has enthusiastically studied a range of subjects from sociology, excercise science, philosophy, history, psychology, religion, chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics, and economics. His primary areas of interest are philosophy, particularly ethics, and psychology, particularly the study of deception and inimicology, the study of villains in popular culture. Eric graduated with distinction from Concordia University with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology in 2005 and currently studies medicine at McGill University, one of the world's foremost medical schools.
Eric holds numerous awards for creative and philosophical writing. He has had columns published for several years in university student newspapers and has sold essays to various magazines. Eric is an active Gamer who has acted as storyteller in more than twenty roleplaying games, some of which have lasted for upwards of three years. Eric's academic research has contributed to multiple papers printed in journals in the fields of psychology and medicine.
Selected publications:Eric maintains a public Journal at http://www.aericanempire.com/eric and can be contacted at ericlis@hotmail.com.
Lis E, Greenfield B, Henry M, Guilé JM, Dougherty G. Neuroimaging and genetics of borderline personality disorder: a review. J Psychiatry Neurosci 2007;32(3):162-73.
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