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| honorific-prefix = [[Wikipedia:Excellency|His Excellency]]
| name            = Wyatt Baek
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|list=<abbr title="Commander of the Majestic Danube">CMD</abbr> <abbr title="Order of Gaplastovian Heritage">OGH</abbr> <abbr title="Ribbon for Bravery">RB</abbr> <abbr title="Ribbon for Loyalty">RL</abbr> <abbr title="Ribbon for Science">RSc</abbr>}}<br/>Hero of the [[Gaplan Revolution]]
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| image           = [[File:Wyatt portrait.jpeg|200px]]
| caption         = Official portrait, 2024

| office1        = [[Provisional Government|Speaker of the Provisional Government]]
| term_start1    = 20 October 2023
| president1     = [[Hendrik Täks]]

| office2        = [[Gaplastovia|Governor of Gaplastovia]]
| term_start2    = 28 February 2019
| president2     = <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
<div>[[Hendrik Täks]]</div>
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Wyatt Baek (self)<br>[[Chelsea Chen]]<br>[[Emma Bunnell]]<br>[[Amalia Battle]]
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| deputy2        = [[Chelsea Chen]]

| office3        = [[Provisional Government|Member of the Provisional Government]]
| term_start3    = 20 October 2023
| president3     = [[Chelsea Chen]]<br>[[Amalia Battle]]<br>[[Hendrik Täks]]
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| 1blankname     = Portfolio
| 1namedata      = Technology (2023–)<br>Human Capital (2023–2025)
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| office8        = [[Gapla|Gaplan Ambassador to the United States]]
| term_start8    = 31 December 2024
| president8     = [[Chelsea Chen]]<br>[[Amalia Battle]]<br>[[Hendrik Täks]]

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| office1        = [[Monarchy of Gapla|Sovereign Prince of Gapla]]
| term_start1    = 20 August 2023
| term_end1      = 5 June 2026
| president1     = <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
<div>[[Hendrik Täks]]</div>
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[[Chelsea Chen]]<br>[[Emma Bunnell]]<br>[[Amalia Battle]]
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| predecessor1   = [[Chelsea Chen]]
| term_start2    = 28 February 2019
| term_end2      = 22 July 2023
| president2     = Wyatt Baek (self)<br>[[Chelsea Chen]]
| successor2     = [[Chelsea Chen]]
| office5        = 1st [[President of Gapla]]
| term_start5    = 28 February 2021
| term_end5      = 2 February 2022
| deputy5        = Shaun Madillo<br>[[Chelsea Chen]]<br>[[Emma Bunnell]]
| predecessor5   = Ian Shin ([[United Republics of Gapla and Phoenix|Gapla-Phoenix]])
| successor5     = [[Chelsea Chen]]
| term_start6    = 28 February 2019
| term_end6      = 4 January 2021
| deputy6        = {{Flatlist |
* Mirabelle Wang
* Vera Sy
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{{Flatlist |
* Irene Kim
* [[Chelsea Chen]]
}}
| predecessor6   = [[Chelsea Chen]]
| successor6     = [[Chelsea Chen]]

| office7        = 5th [[Deputy President of Gapla]]
| term_start7    = 5 January 2021
| term_end7      = 27 February 2021
| president7     = [[Chelsea Chen]]
| predecessor7   = [[Chelsea Chen]]
| successor7     = Shaun Madillo
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| birth_place = [[Wikipedia:Seoul|Seoul]], [[Wikipedia:South Korea|South Korea]]
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* {{Flag|South Korea}}
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| party = [[Alliance for Reason]]
| otherparty = [[Wikipedia:Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian]] (United States)
| residence = [[Gaplastovia]]<br>[[Federated States of Gapla]]
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| data1 = [[Wikipedia:Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]]
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| education = [[Royal Gaplastovian Academy]]<br>[[Wikipedia:University of California|Scout from University of California]]
| website = {{url|monarchy.gaplagov.org}}<br>{{url|wyattbaek.xyz}}
}}}}'''Wyatt Seungri Baek''' (born '''Seungri Baek''' 13 January 2009) is a Gaplan politican who has served as the [[Provisional Government|Speaker of the Provisional Government]] and Minister of Technology and Human Capital since 2024. Widely considered one of the [[founders of Gapla]], he previously served as the 1st [[President of Gapla]] during two noncontiguous terms from 2019 to 2022 and briefly served as the 4th [[Deputy President of Gapla]] in 2021. He was [[Monarchy of Gapla|Prince of the Danubias]] between 2019 and 2026, when the monarchy was abolished. 

Baek was born in [[Wikipedia:Seoul|Seoul]], South Korea at the [[Wikipedia:Samsung Medical Center|Samsung Medical Center]]. The only son of Korean doctors who later immigrated to the United States, Baek's family received a [[Wikipedia:Green card|green card]] through a [[Wikipedia:National Interest Waiver|national interest waiver]] in 2012 following his mother's publication in the [[Wikipedia:JAMA|''Journal of the American Medical Association'']], a prestigious journal. He was raised in [[Wikipedia:Irvine|Irvine]], California and attended the [[Wikipedia:Irvine Unified School District|Irvine Unified School District]] until 8th grade.

Baek attended 1st through 3rd grade at Cypress Village Elementary School, where he and a friend, [[Ian Shin]], learned about [[Micronation|micronationalism]]. Subsequently, they founded the [[United Republics of Gapla and Phoenix]] in 2015, which marked first occurance of the name "Gapla." The project soon faced a crisis which led to its eventual splitting into the independent republics of Gapla and Phoenix before ultimately falling inactive. In 2018, he was selected as a participant in the school district's Alternative Program for Academically Advanced Students (APAAS), and was placed at Deerfield Elementary School. Following a family move, Baek found a notebook from the Gapla–Phoenix era that inspired him to restore Gapla as the [[Principality of Gapla]], a predecessor of the modern [[Federated States of Gapla]] that would reform to claim [[Greater Danubia]].

Baek is widely regarded as the principal leader of modern Gapla as its restorer, and has had extensive influence over virtually the entirety of Gaplan history. He is widely known as a right-wing libertarian politician, activist, and diplomat, representing Gapla at international summits such as [[Wikipedia:MicroCon|MicroCon 2022]] in Las Vegas, Nevada. He currently leads the [[Alliance for Reason]], a right-wing libertarian party, in the Provisional Government.

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