Bovido Has

**Bovido Has** (/bə͡ʊvˈiːdə͡ʊ hˈas/), formally known as the **Holy Empire of Bovido Has** (Latin: **Sacri Imperii Bovido Has**, /sˈakɹi ɪmpˈi͡əɹii bə͡ʊvˈɪdə͡ʊ hˈas/), was a nation state in the continents of Asia and Africa which existed in various different forms for over 200 years, between it's formation in 1809 and the formation of the Bovido Imperium in 2028. Between 1909 and 2021 Bovido Has was the second largest country on Earth, with land boarders with the Libirachi Empire, Sudan, Egypt and Persia. Led by powerful religious figures within the Holy Clergy of Bovido Has, the nation in it's final form as a rump state was controlled by Cardinal Anton Ujung from the city of Jerusalem prior to it's dissolution in 2028.

Bovido Has was one of the most technologically advanced nations in the 20th century, although much of its development in the 21st century was severely hindered by state Christianity and the following restrictions emplaced upon society. The large Lord's Grand Army protected the nation from outside attacks, although much of the nation's defence capabilities were destroyed in the Has Wars of 2020 - 2022 in which a flurry of leaders made catastrophic decisions which forced the decline of the nation and hindered its economic growth. As one of the few superpower nations until 2021, Bovido Has enjoyed its position as a diplomatic and military behemoth, although a sense of overconfidence marred both the military and the dictators who ruled the nation, culminating in the fracturing and defeat of the nation in the Has Wars as generals found their equipment ineffective against far more advanced enemies, resorting to decades old planes and artillery during the defence of Japan Has.

## History

### Establishment

Founded in 1809 on the island of Belitung, Bovido Has was formed after a coup on the island from the group know as the templars. The group was under the command of Ismachiah Joash at the time, who like the rest of the group was a radical Christian who wanted to bring about the end of days and found a realm for his Lord on the earth. The coup was a resounding success which saw the templars rise to power and the official formation of Bovido Has. Wanting to secure his power and ensure the Christian purity of his nation Ismachiah Joash ordered the 1st great Bovido Hasain Crusade, in which an estimated 5000 Muslims were massacred. Just 6 years later in 1817 Ismachiah Joash died from Tuberculosis. In the wake of his death, the new Bovido Hassian government was formed by Omar Joash. This new government put a larger focus on the clergy and a lesser focus on the installed monarchist leadership. The new clergy’s Archbishop was to become the official head of state, at that time the archbishop and the emperor were both Omar Joash, who is now widely considered a reformist by the people of Bovido Has and in 1943 he was canonised as a Saint.

### Growth

In 1859 Omar Joash died from influenza, and for the first time in Bovido Hasain history the archbishop and emperor were two different people, the archbishop and the new official head of state was Mattathias Jude. The region of Mattathias Jude, from 1859 to 1897 was largely uneventful until his murder in 1897. The killer is still unknown. Succeeding Mattathias Jude was the aggressive expansionist, Nicolas Ujung (also the first non-white archbishop). Nicolas Ujung in his first year in power guided the formation of both the HNL and the HHL, which he then used to seize control of the rest of the Indonesian islands over 1897 to 1899. Just one year after the first campaign Nicolas Ujung ordered the invasion of the Philippines and East Timor these took place over 1900 to 1903. Then in 1904 he ordered the invasion of Papua New Guinea and Singapore, then later from 1905 to 1913 his forces invaded Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Persia and Burma. It is rumoured Nicolas Ujung was planning for the invasion of Taiwan for 1914, however in November 1913 he died. He was succeed by his cousin Canaan Ujung. Like his cousin, Canaan Ujung was an equally aggressive expansionist who quickly made plans for the invasion of Taiwan, which were to be carried out in June 1916. However this date was brought forward due to the creation of HAL in 1915, so in January 1916 the forces of Bovido Has invaded Taiwan the fighting was intense, and due to the guerrilla warfare of the Taiwanese the Bovido Hasain armed forces suffered it’s first ever loss. However just two months later in March a second invasion was launched, this one was far more successful and saw Taiwan invaded. Canaan Ujung next set his eyes upon Japan however the heads of the armed forces refused to mobilise, saying their forces were already over stretched. While Canaan Ujung planned to have the heads excited for treason, the emperor (Abel Barak 1895-1917) stepped in and ordered the armed forces to arrest Ujung, however the armed forces refused to help and turned the emperor over to the Archbishop, who had him imprisoned in 1917(Abel Barak later died in 1921 while in prison under suspicious circumstances). As a result of these events, the invasion of japan was called off and the clergy was favoured even more within the government ranks. Canaan Ujung died in 1923, and was succeed by Matthew Aquila, who refused to expand the empire any further.

In 1938 Matthew Aquila died from a heart attack and his position was taken by Daniel Erastus, who in 1943 conducted the first ever successful nuclear test. Later in June 1944 Daniel Erastus promised to invaded Japan by 1950, in 1949 Japan was invaded and by December 1950 Japan surrendered. This marked the most recent expansion of Bovido Has. In 1967 Daniel Erastus died, and was succeed by Peter Purba who re-founded the templars and renamed them the nameless. Other wise his region was nothing of note other than the expansion of the WMB arsenal in 1972. Peter Purba died in 1981, he stated that he was to be succeed by his son Abram Purba, however this was a major breach in tradition as the clergy traditionally appointed the archbishop. Tensions eventually spiked with the murder of the Purba family by the nameless acting on the orders of the clergy. However upon learning of the family's deaths their supports, known as Purbains took to the streets to fight (through both peaceful and violent methods) against the action of the clergy, however it quickly became clear that the clergy would not stand for this, and as a result ordered military action. The Purbains were massacred in what became known as the Purba incident. As such after a brief period where there was no archbishop, the clergy appointed Michael Ezra as the archbishop in 1983.

### Stagnation

Michael Ezra ruled as a benevolent, but iron fisted Archbishop, and began the process of rebuilding the country after the assassination of the Purba family. In the period that is widely regarded as the golden age of Bovido Has, Ezra re-constructed relations with the Libirachi Empire, which had dampened under Peter Purba, and set about reforming and updating neglected parts of the country. Many of the Has provinces received new leadership, and the dominion of Persia Has was permitted to form its own assembly, headed by Emanuel Parra. In early 2018 Michael Ezra died, and was succeed by Hazael Buller the Rightful in August 2018 (although he was officially appointed in January 2019). Under Buller, the son of former Emperor Hagreev Buller, the country doubled down on its harshness and the military began to play a larger role in the running of the country. A series of purges and crusades were enacted against those who crossed the new Archbishop, but not before Persia Has was permitted to form the Persian Republic. As Buller began to assert himself in office, Bovido Has began a new program of expansion into Egypt, but met harsh resistance from the Egyptian Islamic Brotherhood), and their African campaign was halted. In 2020, the regime suffered catastrophic losses during the Hǔnluàn's Eastern Campaign, and Hazael Buller was assassinated on the 29th March, descending the Christian empire into chaos. While Arch-emirate Damal Clod attempted to keep the Has provinces under his control, Justus Obadiah split from Makassar and formed his own splinter region. With the whole of Asia spiralling out of control, Bovido Has began to collapse under the pressure of the Has Wars, struggling to fight off 3 nations (Libirachi Empire, Obadiah Has and the Emirate of Persia) and recapture fallen territory, all without a standing army. Within several months of the conflict, Bovido Has ran out of fight and surrendered its capital after a gruelling invasion of Belitung. Refusing to align with the Emperor and his surrendering forces, Archbishop Syli Dean regathered the remainder of the Hassian New Army and fled to Japan, setting up Tokyo as their new capital. Obadiah Has continued to claw away Has provinces into its midst, and the Libirachi Empire began its invasion of the Northern Has, which was the only remaining territory controlled by the Tokyo Bovido in the Pacific. As the conglomerate of Hases collapsed over the summer of 2021, the Bovido Hassian armed forces overthrew the clergy in the middle of the Libirachi Invasion of Japan, replacing Archbishop and Emperor Syli Dean with High Admiral Etsushi Toyo, who proclaimed himself Emperor and proceeded to surrender the islands of Japan to the Libirachi Empire, before fleeing to the Pacific ocean with his remnants of the Holy Navy to escape persecution in the new administration.

## Society

### Founding

Formed by missionary colonists in England in 1657, the Confides of St. John was initially created as a humanitarian group who would travel the world and teach local populations of the virtues of Christianity. Sent ahead of a British invasion of the newly formed Japanese Empire, the Confides began their work but were exiled to the island of Belitung after they were linked to the failed invasion in 1672. Setting up camp on the isolated island, the Confides of St. John became increasingly radicalised as their separation from society drove them to desperate measures. After a failed return to the Japanese Empire in 1700, the Confides regrouped and renamed themselves as the Templars, in honour of the famous European knights, and set about establishing a new order on their island. Luring in unsuspecting converts from the surrounding islands, the Templars began to expand and developed a new language that was "worth of gods chosen few". Establishing themselves as the Bovido people led by the Templars, the islanders began plotting their revenge on the Japanese for their isolation in Belitung. Within the city of Namak, an outsider came to lead the Templars and led an uprising against the Japanese guard on the island who were ensuring that a revolt could *never* happen. Under the mysterious Ismachiah Joash, the Templar people seized control over their island and named it the *Bovido Has*, meaning the *Holy Lands,* beginning a system that continued well into the early 21st century.

### Political Beginnings

With the death of Joash in 1817, just 8 years after the successful uprising, the nation of **Bovido Has** turned away from militant actions, and instead focused (albeit temporarily) on building a successful political system under the watchful eye of Omar Joash, brother to the famous revolutionary and self-proclaimed Emperor. Under the leadership of the politically minded younger Joash brother, the island of Belitung experienced unprecedented revolution and development, creating a political system of an Emperor and an Archbishop which would ensure that nominal power was held by the Templars, whilst preventing a dictatorial regime from oppressing the island nation. While initially good natured, this political system reversed itself in 1859, when the new Archbishop Mattathias Jude became the Head of State rather than the Emperor, setting a new precedent followed until 2020, with the Emperor once more becoming head of state. The role of Emperor was greatly diminished after the betrayal of Abel Barak in 1917, leading Canaan Ujung to take the reigns of both positions, as his forbearer Omar Joash once did.

### Christianity

As the Christian cult began to expand its territory to neighbouring islands, the decision was made to move the capital from Namak on the island of Belitung to the utopian city of Makassar, which was re-built into a paradise during the reign of the Ujung cousins, and adopted as the centre of the Bovido empire in 1927 under the leadership of Mathew Aquila. Along with the changes to the capital and centre of politics, the island of Sulawesi was renamed to Belitung after the island where the founding fathers of the Templars were exiled. To match the change, the Tempars were officially abolished and any mention to their name struck from official records, whilst promoting the ideology of the now dominant Clergy which had taken over religious affairs during the reign of Nicolas Ujung.

### Re-birth

Following decades of stagnation, the once great Bovido Hassian empire came crumbling down in the wake of the Has Wars in 2021 as fractions vied for control over the nation's accumulated territories, whilst the Clergy became divided across the many remnant nations that emerged following the

### Crusades

A keystone in the Bovido Hassian ideology is the crusade - a holy war against a nation or people used by the Templars and later the Clergy to scapegoat religious or ethnic groups for failures within the state. Established by Ismachiah Joash in 1811, the widely excepted formula for Bovido crusades was directly inspired by the multiple crusades of the early Medieval period, utilising brutal methods to ensure the deaths of thousands and to leave a message to those who may dare to rebel. In a similar fashion, the Lord's Grand Army and later the Lord's Holy Army utilised methods considered by many to be out-dated and inhumane to ensure loyalty to both Emperor and Archbishop, acutely portrayed by regular publicised executions and torture sessions, not to mention the brutalities in Persia Has which saw thousands of Muslims hung up on crosses by meat hooks in their arms and flogged to death by guards in front of mandatory gatherings enforced by foot soldiers.

### Bovidos

 Main articles: Bovido and Has
A Bovido is a form of administrative government within the nation of **Bovido Has** and later the Bovido Imperium, encompassing several Hasses. Translated literally, Bovido means Holy although the modern translation of the word places it closer to the English words for government or administrative centre. Originally only applied to the nation as a whole, the term Bovido was adopted by Syli Dean's Provisional Government and later Anton Ujung's powerhouse in the city of Jerusalem following the Invasion of Belitung and the death of Emperor Damal Clod in early 2021 during the Has Wars as a way to legitimise their governance, although both remnant groups also proclaimed to be the sole continuation of Bovido Has rather than a successor nation. Examples of Bovidos (in order of creation) include:

* **Bovido Has** (1809 - 2021; 2022 - 2030)
* Jerusalem Bovido (2021 - 2022)
* Tokyo Bovido (2021 - 2022)
* Bovido Imperium (2028 - *present*)

Alternatively, the term Bovido is also used as a shortened way of referring to citizens and occupants of a Bovido Hassian state, used colloquially to refer to the eithnic and religious groups who occupied the original state of **Bovido Has**, with the term Bovido state being used by historians, scholars and by the 2030s even members of the Bovido Clergy too to refer to the goal of creating a unified state for the Christian nationals who follow the Final Testament, with Bovido nationalism being found in nations all across the world, such as ST Joseph's Devotees, Egypt and even Libya, all of which were united in the 2030s under the Bovido Imperium.

### National Anthem

Matching the overtly religious nature of Bovido Has, the national anthem of the once sprawling Christian cult is the Chant of The Templars by Da Pacem Domine, which is the chant used by the Clergy during prayer sessions. Created as a battle chant in the late 1700s, Chant of the Templars was used as the wartime parade music and was adopted by Bovido Has in 1809 to celebrate their victory over the local Japanese forces. Although withdrawn from battle usage in 1927, the Chant of the Templars remained a prominent usage in prayer sessions within Clergy churches across the nation

### Military

Having grown up upon the jungle islands under an oppressive religious rule, the armed forces are highly specialised in naval and jungle warfare; being able to quickly jump from island to island easily gaining dominance in any island hopping war. This skilled allowed for the rapid conquest of the Philippines and Indonesia from the state's humble beginnings from the minor island of, Belitung. The use of lighting warfare, flamethrowers, and Naval superiority also saw great development during these first crusades; these would go on to become staples of the Lord's Grand Army

#### The Nameless

The nameless serve as Bovido Has's special forces, they are called such as they answer to no name only to their number. They are taken from their parents at birth and then trained in combat from the age of 4. In combat they where faceless masks and top of the line body armour. The nameless are armed with the following: FAMAE SAF(main fire-arm)/MAC-10 (Secondary Fire-arm)/ Smoke grenades x5/M67 grenade x6/Full black body armor, and faceless mask/Stahlhelm style helmet/ night vision/ gas mask.

## See Also

### Government

* List of Leaders of Bovido Has
* Archbishop of Bovido Has
* Emperor of Bovido Has
* Cardinal of the Holy Clergy
* Holy Clergy of Bovido Has

### Military

* Lord's Grand Army
* Lord's Holy Army
* Has Wars

### Other

* Bovido Remnants
* Mark (Bovido Has)