Geena Kulmuni

**Geena Davis Kulmuni** (January 21, 1969 -) was a Persian stateswoman who served as the eighth president of Persia from November 11, 2024 until November 17, 2035. Kulmuni also held office as Secretary General of the Shanghai Pact from November 2035 until August 2038. She was the leader of the Progressive Party from December 2021 to May 2039, and was member of the Persian Congress from 2018 until 2024, and again from 2038 onwards.

As one of the most influential Persian politicians in the nation's history, Geena Kulmuni became known early on as a senator within the Persian Congress, having quit the Clergy in 2009 following the initial relaxation of Bovido Hassian occupation, campaigning on key matters for the nation and joining the cabinet of Emirate Emanuel Parra in order to lead a commission to return full Persian autonomy to the Congress and ending the Bovido Hassian occupation. Present for the proclamation of the Persian Republic in 2018, Geena Kulmuni served as Finance Minister in the cabinet of Nicolas Burez and under the Parra-Burez administration, Kulmuni helped re-balance the economic structures of the nation following the creation of the Persian Riyal in 2018 and was instrumental in Persia's assentation into the International Monetary Fund, as well as funding numerous infrastructure projects using Libirachi loans to back up the nation. Alongside much of the Parra administration, Kulmuni resigned her office in order to go into exile, whilst Prime Minister Burez remained in office and attempted to facilitate the transfer of power to the Hǔnluàn government of terrorist leader Ashton Morre. Under the presidency of Almac Docu, Geena Kulmuni served as the leader of the opposition, briefly taking a part in the Confederacy of Independent Nations before taking the presidency in 2024 upon the toppling and execution of Almac Docu and the liberation of Persia.

Following her rise to power, Kulmuni began to bring the Persian Republic into the fold of the Libirachi Empire's sphere of influence, accepting harsh peace terms and entry into the Eurasian Union of States as part of the concessions to end Persia's role in the Libirachi Civil War. As such, for the rest of Kulmuni's presidency, Persia would remain in effect a puppet state of the Libirachi regime, engaging forces in Loxenia and Africa during the Liberation of Loxenia and the Conquest of Africa respectively, during the latter of which Prime Minister Emanuel Parra was killed during a raid on the capital. Following a constitutional crisis in 2035 when Kulmuni refused to call elections or leave office, she was appointed as the second Secretary General of the Shanghai Pact, placing her at the head of the largest extra-governmental organisation in the world at the time. During her tenure as head of the Shanghai Pact, Kulmuni oversaw the military organisation's operations against the Bovido Imperium, presiding over the signing of the failed Treaty of Beijing and the Treaty of Kampala. After the successful Operations Invincible and Safeguard from 2037 through to 2038, the Bovido Imperium capitulated and was forced to sign the Treaty of Shanghai; however, internal tensions over the terms of the treaty prompted Kulmuni's resignation as general secretary in August 2038, though she remained an important diplomat and negotiator during the Jerusalem Peace Conference and helped broker the Treaty of Jerusalem in late 2038. Following the end of the Conquest of Africa, Kulmuni retired as from the Shanghai Pact in order to focus on domestic politics and the upcoming Persian presidential election.

In September 2038, Geena Kulmuni staged a political comeback within Persia after being elected to the congress at the head of the Progressive party, returning to domestic politics for the first time since loosing the presidency three years previously. During her tenure in congress, Kulmuni served as the official Leader of the Opposition, taking over from her deputy Amal Alamuddin who had held the title as a proxy before Kulmuni was elected to congress.

As the fifth president of the Persian Republic in 6 years, Kulmuni inherited a government in dire instability and a nation wreaked with havoc from nearly 4 years straight of direct fighting, both overseas and within the nation, leaving the Persian Republic in a weakened state and open to the rise of authoritarian leaders like Kulumni who took advantage of the loose constitutional parameters around term limits to rule for an extended period of time. Despite being forced from office in 2035, Kulmuni remained a central figure in Persian politics as the head of the Progressive party and served as an *eminence grise* to several successor governments. In spite of her authoritarian tendencies, Kulmuni is regarded as a central figure in the establishment of the modern Persian state and is held in high esteem by many Persian academics and historians; however, her divisive attempt to hold onto power during the 2034-35 constitutional crisis makes Kulmuni a highly polarising figure within Persian politics.

## History

Born in 1969 during the Bovido Hassian occupation of Persia, Geena Kulmuni grew up during a period of political stagnation, joining the Clergy in 1980 and receiving training in neighbouring Jerusalem until 1988, before returning home the same year to lead a congregation in Dubai. With the relaxation of religious control in 2009, Kulmuni quit the Clergy, still remaining an important part of government and joined Emanuel Parra's cabinet of politicians to help transition the nation out of Bovido control. As a key Persian leader, Kulmuni was present at the declaration of independence on April 8, 2018, taking part in the 2018 Persian Presidential Election as a member of the Persian Congress.

With the election of Parra as the first President of the new Republic of Persia, Geena Kulmuni served as Finance Minister in the cabinet of Nicolas Burez and under the Parra-Burez administration, Kulmuni helped re-balance the economic structures of the nation following the creation of the Persian Riyal in 2018 and was instrumental in Persia's assentation into the International Monetary Fund, as well as funding numerous infrastructure projects using Libirachi loans to back up the nation. Alongside much of the Parra administration, Kulmuni resigned her office in order to go into exile, whilst Prime Minister Burez remained in office and attempted to facilitate the transfer of power to the Hǔnluàn government of terrorist leader Ashton Morre. Coming back out of hiding in October 2021 as the Libirachi Empire flushed Morre and his cohorts out of Persia, Kulmuni re-joined the Persian Congress to take part in the 2021 Persian Presidential Election, becoming leader of the congressional opposition to Almac Docu's Republican party following the defeat of Emanuel Parra in the election. As the Has Wars wound down, Kulmumi was a vocal critic of the formation of the Confederacy of Independent Nations, becoming one of the ringleaders of opposition to the Libirachi Civil War of 2022 - 24 that Persia soon found itself embroiled in, before taking power in Persia with the execution of Docu upon the Libirachi invasion of the Confederate capital of Dubai in 2024, winning the 2024 Persian Presidential Election by a landslide. before taking a significant role within the Union of States, which acted as a union of Libirachi satellite states firmly controlled from Beijing.

## Presidency

 Prime Minister

Assuming the office of *acting* President on November 11, 2024, upon the request of the Speaker of the Persian Congress, Geena Kulmuni began to try to consolidate the efforts of the Persian Republic whilst President Docu remained in hiding during the Liberation of Persia and the Second Battle for Dubai at the end of the Libirachi Civil War, before taking the title formally on November 17 following the execution of Docu by forces of the Libirachi Imperial Army and the Union of Aligned Nations' Joint Army. Immediately assuming the full powers of the presidency, Kulmuni appointed the deposed president Emanuel Parra as her Prime Minister and together embarked upon withdrawing the Persian Republic from the Confederacy of Independent Nations, whilst their newly appointed Confederate President Rowan Hamilton attempted to continue the fight against the UAN. Split by family, with Kulmuni's sister playing a major role in the CIN war efforts, the withdrawal of the Persian Republic from the alliance served as almost a death blow to the entity, with Hamilton officially surrendering in December 2024.

Tasked with the difficult role of attempting to heal the nation following 4 years of constant warfare, the Kulmuni administration began a slow job of re-patriating Persian politicians and soldiers who had been involved in the Confederate war effort and bringing them back home to reunite families, whilst also attempting to bring some of the highest state officials such as Quentin Jay and Conrad Dalton to justice, with both of them receiving the death penalty for war crimes committed under their instruction in 2025. Kulmuni's government also joined with the N20, United Nations, European Union, Union of Aligned Nations and the Libirachi Empire in order to begin a peace keeping operation within the middle east to try and prevent a third large scale Asian/European war from breaking out again after the Has Wars had devastated the continent just 2 years prior.

At the turn of the 2030s, President Geena Kulmuni was one of the most important members of the Eurasian Union of States thanks to the Persian Republic's key position on the boarder with the newly founded Bovido Imperium and the key trading links built up by the Kulmuni administration with the Arab world, making the Persian Republic a major ally to the United Arab Republic upon its formation in 2031. In 2033, the Bovido Imperium conducted an invasion of the Egyptian Islamic Brotherhood's stronghold in the north of the African continent; with Egypt having completely fallen to the forces of the Bovido Imperium, the Libirachi Empire could no longer turn a blind eye to the actions of it's rival superpower and began to bring into use the Eurasian Union of States of satellite and puppet states loyal to the Libirachi Empress Penny Fox, sending soldiers from all of the nations to the United Arab Republic, the Federation of Ducist and Canto Haven to train up local forces to act as a defence against the Bovido expansion into the nation, drafting in Geena Kulmuni of the Persian Republic to act as a public backer to the UAR, whilst the Libirachi government backed them from behind the scenes.

### Conquest of Africa

During the Conquest of Africa, the Bovido Imperium attempted to strike a key blow against the regime of President Kulmuni to try to knock Persia out of the war to prevent them from supplying the United Arab Republic; subsequently, on November 30, 2033 Bovido aerial forces crossed over the Persian boarder and made a bombing run upon the republic's capital of Nupersia, evading the Persian air force to land a series of high yield sub-atomic bombs upon major landmarks in the city, including the Persian Congress and the Prime Minister's Executive Office, killing Prime Minister Emanuel Parra in the initial raid. As the nation reeled from the attacks on the morning of December 1st, President Geena Kulmuni signed an executive order granting herself emergency powers to postpone the 2034 elections and appointed Muhammed Abdulla as the new Prime Minister to replace Parra, shutting down much of the Persian Congress as an "emergency measure" on December 2nd and instead installing a Council of Ministers to act as parliament, with Prime Minister Abdulla chairing the new council at the president's behest. Now attempting to control the government from a decimated city, President Kulmuni signed another executive order on December 5th moving the executive offices of the government to the city of Dubai, former capital of the Confederacy of Independent Nations.

### Constitutional Crisis

On October 7, 2034, citing Article IV of the 2024 Persian Constitution, President Kulmuni refused to call elections in November 2034 and instead expanded her presidential term using legally dubious means, resulting in a constitutional crisis and a split within her own political party as former backbench members of the Persian Congress began to call for new elections to be held. As plans for the Shanghai Pact began to be drawn up in late 2034, President Kulmuni began to syphon power to the organisation's Coordination Council in early 2035, resulting in further protests against the executive office. Following a flurry of senators defecting from the Progressive party on March 1st, Prime Minister Abdulla resigned his office and dismissed his Council of Ministers and joined with the opposition in calling for the removal of Kulmuni. On March 17, 2035 following street battles with government security forces, Muhammed Abdulla proclaimed an alliance of militias known as the United Front and declared himself to be the rightful president, whilst President Kulmuni was forced to flee the capital. In the absence of Kulmuni, opposition leader Hassen Ahmed led members of the former Persian Congress to denounce the militias and mobs who had overrun the capital, and forming his own Council of Ministers to lead the government response to the crisis. Upon the President's return and the final elimination of the United Front on the 26th, Hassen Ahmed was appointed as prime minister to form a coalition government, whilst negotiations between Ahmed and Kulmuni opened as to how to resolve the crisis, with General Secretary Stanford Newman of the Shanghai Pact acting as a mediator to allow for talks to work effectively. Ultimately on August 15, 2035, President Kulmuni and Prime Minister Ahmed signed a transition agreement which allowed Kulmuni to remain in place until elections were held on November 17 of the same year, in which she was not allowed to run again as president.

With both Libirachi leaders Penny Fox and Karyn Voor as well as President Kulmuni realising their power over the Persian Republic was slipping, Kulmuni negotiated the Persian Republic's full entry into the Shanghai Pact's Coordination Council, signing over all international and defence policy control over to General Secretary Stanford Newman, a puppet of the Beijing administration, before herself standing for election as General Secretary in November 2035, assuming control of the Coordination Council on November 20, 2035, just 3 days after loosing her presidency of Persia.

## Secretary General of the Shanghai Pact

    Following the 2034-35 Persian Constitutional Crisis and the removal of Geena Kulmuni as leader of the Persian Republic, Empress Penny Fox of the Libirachi Empire orchestrated Kulmuni's appointment as Secretary General of the Shanghai Pact in order to keep Kulmuni as a useful ally, forcing the resignation of Secretary General Stanford Newman on November 20, 2035 and personally appointing Kulmuni as an interim leader until elections were held in December 2035, which cemented the start of Kulmuni's tenure officially. Elected alongside Duke Carlo Boreal, former Libirachi defence minister, Geena Kulmuni was sworn into office formally on December 10, 2035. Having taken over in the middle of the Conquest of Africa, Geena Kulmuni became the leader of the largest (joint) army on the planet and continued the pact's commitments in the Invasion of Jerusalem State, helping inflict numerous defeats against the Bovido Imperium during the conflict. Following the 2036 Bovido Coup d'état, Secretary General Kulmuni helped coordinate the Beijing Peace Process with the Imperium and was one of four signatories of the Treaty of Beijing, alongside Nina Auber, Nicholas Azure and Angelica Rivera on Apirl 13, 2036, although the Imperium would ultimately back out of the agreement and renege on it's pledges, allowing the Libirachi Empire and the Shanghai Pact to continue their assault on the Bovido empire. Following the North African Civil War in 2037, Kulmuni was a key negotiator in the Treaty of Kampala.

Under Geena Kulmuni's administration, the successful Operations Invincible and Safeguard from 2037 through to 2038 allowed for the expansion of Shanghai Pact influence through the Egyptian Transitional Administration, Shanghai Pact Administrative Zone in Africa, and Shanghai Pact Occupied Zone in North Africa. Consequently, the Bovido Imperium capitulated in 2038 and was forced to sign the Treaty of Shanghai; however, internal tensions over the terms of the treaty prompted Kulmuni's resignation as general secretary in August 2038 after President Hassen Ahmed of Persia withdrew support for her administration. Despite her resignation, Geena Kulmuni remained an important diplomat and negotiator during the Jerusalem Peace Conference and helped broker the Treaty of Jerusalem in late 2038.

## Return to Persian politics

Following her resignation as General Secretary of the Shanghai Pact in August 2038, Geena Kulmuni instructed her Progressive Party to begin motioning for an impeachment proceeding in the Persian Congress against President Hassen Ahmed in retribution for forcing her out of the Shanghai Pact; Kulmuni's impeachment efforts also gained the support of a small opposition faction of the governing Union for Persia, placing Ahmed's position at risk. In a bid to prevent the impeachment proceedings from taking place, President Ahmed unilaterally dissolved the Persian Congress and called for new elections to the body. During the electoral campaign, Geena Kulmuni took centre stage as the leader of the Progressive party and campaigned on a manifesto pledging to impeach Ahmed from office. Despite the Progressive party making a net loss of seats at the election, Kulmuni was elected as a representative for Dubai and the governing Union for Persia lost its majority, giving opposition parties control over the legislative branch; having taken up a seat in the National People's Congress of Persia, Geena Kulmuni took over from her deputy Amal Alamuddin to become the official Leader of the Opposition.

## Personality and Traits

Throughout her presidency, Geena Kulmuni received accusations of authoritarian intent following large-scale police and army crackdowns between 2025 and 2030 which aimed to supress the growing resent towards the Libirachi Empire which until 2030 occupied large portions of northern Persia as a war trophy from victory over the CIN, accusations which she herself denied although most historical scholars agree that Kulmuni's regime was for all intents and purposes an extension of the Libirachi Empire in the middle east and a puppet regime with Kulmuni as the regional tyrant appointed to control the nation. Indeed, following her presidency Kulmuni continued her role as a national leader and took an integral part in her successor's regime too at the behest of the Libirachi Empress Penny Fox and President Karyn Voor, who wished to give the successor government a sense of legitimacy. A keen advocate of women's rights, Geena Kulmuni's time in the Holy Clergy of Bovido Has during the Bovido Occupation of Persia led her to become a fighter for equality within the state, possessing a similar ideology to that of the Libirachi New-Think. Despite initially starting off as an advocate of democracy, years of fighting and Libirachi pressure moulded Geena Kulmuni's world view and by the time she left office in 2035, her political stance had changed most noticeably from when she first took an elected office some 16 years prior. Kulmuni held a long running rivalry with her eventual successor Hassen Ahmed, and the pair shared a mutual animosity which would go on to reshape Persian politics in the 2030s.