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==Early Life==
Nevran Alandar was raised by her parents, Nari and Daronal Nevran Alandar, in Nakaš, a city in southeastern Tavaris on the opposite side of the Strait of Kings from the capital,
For university, Nevran Alandar attended the University of the Aequator, a small, private liberal-arts university, on an athletic scholarship, where she played volleyball all four years while studying for a degree in economics. She graduated in 1997 with honors. Upon graduating, she began her mandatory 3-year period of conscription in the Royal Tavari Armed Forces. She served in the Royal Tavari Air Force as a military police officer, spending the majority of her conscription at Sinajärv Air Base in Rodoka. After her service, she worked as a volleyball coach at the University of the Aequator from 2000 until 2005, winning national collegiate championships in 2001 and 2002. From 2005 until her election to the Diet in 2012, she worked as a policy analyst and later fellow at the Tavari Institute for Economics, a think tank associated with the Democratic National Party.
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==Personal Life==
Nevran Alandar has been famously coy about her personal life and very rarely directly answers any public questions about her relationship status. On December 23rd, 2020, she announced at a press briefing that she is a "proud lesbian woman" and that she had entered into a relationship with her former Chief of Security, Linai Nakana Modrovai, a retired veteran of the Royal Tavari Army and disability rights advocate. She and Nakana Modrovai married in a civil ceremony attended only by close family on July 12th, 2021; Linai took the names Nevran Alandar upon the marriage. She has two pet ferrets, the first ever such animals to live at 300
Nevran Alandar is known to be fluent in Tavari, [[wikipedia:English|Staynish]], and [[wikipedia:Estonian language|Rodokan]], which she picked up during her military career. She also plays the saxophone. She is a 12th cousin, once removed, of [[Vana Dandreal]], the 37th and current Matron of the [[Akronism|Church of Akrona]]. Through an earlier ancestor, also shared with the Matron, she is also a 13th cousin once removed of King Zaram V.
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