First Lady of the World

First Lady of the World (A Novel) is an English-language novel written in 1991 by Robert Muller, a former Assistant-Secretary General of the United Nations. The 204-page novel was published in Anacortes, Washington in the United States by the World Happiness and Cooperation publishing company. This work of fiction is about the first woman to become Secretary-General of the United Nations. Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 and the wife of former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, while Gabriella Mistral was a Chilean diplomat, poet, and feminist who became the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945.
Characters
The main characters in First Lady of the World include Lakshmi Narayan, Robert Muller (the character), and Sri Chimnoy. Lakshmi Narayan is a woman from India who became a representative of the country to the United Nations. She is a practitioner of Hinduism, a religion that is predominant and indigenous in the Indian Subcontinent. In the novel, Narayan becomes the first female Secretary-General of the United Nations. As a devout believer of Hinduism, Narayan was able to convert her husband - An American businessman - into her religion. Dedicated to her faith, Narayan shows her devotion to the Hindu gods by worshipping their images, even while inside the building of the United Nations headquarters in New York City. which is also referred to as "Peace Plan 1992-2010".
Plot
The setting of the First Lady of the Word is set in the year 1992. During that year a female diplomat from India, Lakshmi Narayan, became the first woman to become Secretary-General of the United Nations. Narayan, as UN Secretary-General, becomes
the leader of all the members of the international organization. Narayan becomes the proponent for an envent known as the Millenium Moment - also known as the Bimillennial Event - after being inspired by a national from France. There is a scene in the novel when Narayan addresses the General Assembly of the United Nations, proclaiming the advent of the "cosmic age, the age of total union with the universe and God." The Millenium Moment is preceded by the revival of the United Nations' plans for 2000 and after. Other events happened prior to the Millenium Moment, including the end of the arms race during the middle of the 1990s, the creation of the World Peace Service - a service for the poor of the world. Providing service to poor people of the world is suggested as the alternative, instead making young people serve for the military. By 1998, a World Constitutional Assembly is held in Philadelphia in the United States for the purpose of creating a World Constitution by 1999. The World Constitution will fulfill the dreams heralded by George Washington, the first president of the United States, and by Simon Bolivar, a political and military leader from Venezuela, a country in South America. Bolivar was one of the key players during from the Empire of Spain. The climax for the First Lady of the World is reached when the whole world celebrates the Millenium Moment in 2000, as humanity enters a New Age - a "new planetary age of cooperation and fulfillment".
Analysis
Jay Gary (also known as "The Millenium Doctor"), author of The Star of 2000, includes Robert Muller's First Lady of the World as one of the "quasi-spiritual novels in recent years" that molded "utopian or disutopian" stories around celebrations that was held in the year 2000.

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