In power, Connery regularly executed his political enemies, is regarded as responsible for the stagnation and poverty in Scotland, especially the acute famines in 1993 and 1994, took foreign nationals hostage to extort political favors from the great powers, and was believed to have been involved in both international arms, human and drug trafficking. After being identified as one of the world's "three rogue states" in 1996 by both President John Burwin and his challenger, Mitt Romney, Connery was ousted after taking seven Americans and twenty Englishmen hostage in 1997 and then launching rocket attacks against cities in Northern England in defiance. During the Scottish Conflict, military officers in Scotland rebelled against Connery and seized him at his palace in Edinburgh before turning