Ráðherrann

Benedikt Ríkarðsson, el nuevo presidente electo del Partido de la Independencia, anuncia que ha formado una coalición con la Alianza Socialdemócrata para las próximas elecciones. Es humilde frente a sus críticos y promete renunciar si la participación de los votantes es inferior al 90%. A la nación se le ha presentado ahora un político tierno y poco ortodoxo que no participa en la política tradicional. Dentro de su partido, sin embargo, no hay unísono sobre sus impulsivas declaraciones. Grímur, el vicepresidente, Eggert, el expresidente, Steinunn, la esposa de Benedikt, y Þorgeir, su padre, están todos consternados. La división es evidente, Steinunn y Grímur apoyan a Benedikt, mientras que Eggert, Þorgeir y otros intentan asegurar el poder del partido, preferiblemente con viejos aliados. Hrefna Halldórsdóttir, la esposa de Grímur, dirige el centro de llamadas del partido. La adoración de la nación por Benedikt es obvia para ella. Los resultados de la noche de las elecciones, sin embargo, se ven ensombrecidos por su descubrimiento de la infidelidad de Grímur.

As Benedikt denies to take the office of the Prime Minister, the other powers in play consider their options. He spends his time convincing the nation to form a coalition treaty through twitter which draws international attention. Old secrets are abused to affect Benedikt's future in politics.

When Ríkarður contacts Benedikt to ask him to help with a dispute in his parish, Benedikt's impulsive reaction is to separate church and state. As he is preoccupied with a pet project of saving a historical instrument Grímur, the newly elected president of the parliament, puts a halt to his policy.

Benedikt travels north to sign a permit for the construction of a hotel resort in his hometown, where he meets his ex-girlfriend that convinces him to prohibit the construction.

Benedikt abuses his temporary power as president to set a provisional law providing the family of a Ukrainian doctor with citizenship - a law requiring more signatures than his own. As Steinunn's birthday party is being planned, her brother, the family doctor and political rival, speaks with Benedikt about the Ukrainian doctor - but his questions seem personal.

The parliament discusses the option of adopting the Euro. Benedikt however, is obsessed with reworking a medieval music transcript into a musical. In his first brush of psychosis, he declares that Iceland will adopt the Euro unilaterally.