Bovido Imperium

The **Bovido Imperium**, formally known as the **Bovido Imperium of Hassian States** (Latin: **Bovido Imperium Civitatum Hassian**), or simply **Bovido**, is a union of Bovido occupied and allied states which encompasses territories all across Asia, the Middle East and Africa, at its height directly controlling 15,764,674 km2 (6086775 mi²) of land, making it the second largest empire in human history. The North African Federation existed under the control of the Bovido Imperium from 2035, adding a further 7,157,519 km2 (2763534mi2) to the nation's reaches.

As a vanguard for the history of Christianity, the middle east became the location of the rebirth of the Bovido state in 2028 when the Jerusalem Bovido remnant of the former Bovido Has re-founded itself as the Bovido Imperium with Jerusalem as its capital and largest city. In 2030, the state merged with the Holy Republic of St Joseph's Devotees of South America to create a super-state of transcontinental extremist Christianity in an attempt to rival the Libirachi Empire in Asia in vengeance for the destruction of Bovido Has in the Has Wars in the early 2020s. The rise of the Bovido Imperium went largely unchecked by major world powers such as the Libirachi Empire and United States, resulting in the nation becoming a military juggernaut by the time of the Invasion of Egypt in 2033. Following the merger with its new Pindoraman territories, the Bovido Imperium under the leadership of Imperator Anton Ujung embarked upon a conquest of northern Africa, invading the United Arab Republic and engaging in genocidal tactics to attempt to eradicate Islam in the region; at the same time, the Imperium declared war on the Libirachi government and it's coalition of allied states, although the regime quickly discovered it's technological inferiority to it's opponent regimes.

In 2036, the nation suffered a coup d'état as senior military and political figures deposed the nation's founding leader and replaced him with a weak puppet leader who was unable to hold together the fractured pieces of the regime and ultimately the nation began to splinter. The nation reached its largest territorial extent during the Conquest of Africa in 2035, thanks to the combined Bovido strength and the effects of the Red Wave, which saw the North African Federation join the Imperium as a vassal state following a takeover by Bovido loyalists.

Governed by a theocratic myriad of rival clerical entities, the Bovido Imperium was dominated by the Holy Clergy of the Bovido Imperium, the Magisterium and the Maximo Exercitus, which each govern a specific state within the Imperium - however, a lack of integration or even amicable relations between the various disjointed regional systems left the nation as only a *de-jure* unitary state, whilst in reality the conflicting local regimes operated under significant autonomy, especially following the 2036 Bovido Coup d'état after which Imperator Julios Cragen granted the two regions of Pindorama and North Africa significant autonomy from the central government of Jerusalem State. With the office of Bovido Imperator serving as the supreme leader of the nation, the Bovido Imperium has been described by historians as being a monarchist theocracy with the powers of the former roles of Emperor and Archbishop of Bovido Has being combined together into a singular elective throne.

## Name

Based on the Latin name for the Bovido Empire, the Bovido Imperium takes its name from the word Bovido meaning centre or (home) land, and Imperium meaning empire. The Bovido Imperium was a direct continuation of the concept of a Bovido nation, following the states of Bovido Has and the Jerusalem Bovido in the goal for a nation governed by the doctrines of the Final Testament.

## History

### Bovido Hassian Rise and Fall

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 first Bovido Hassian Crusade, in which an estimated 5,000 Muslims were massacred. Just 6 years later in 1817 Ismachiah Joash died from Tuberculosis. Following leaders began to expand the Bovido Hassian empire into the Pacific and across Asia, and by the 1890s the regime had achieved status as a global great power. Several regional powers such as the First Persian Republic and the Russian Empire fell to the Bovido war machine, and the regime became locked in a power struggle with the Republic of Libirachi, the only other major power in Asia. This so-called Cold War lasted for more than a hundred years, and saw the two sides engage in espionage, sabotage and skirmishes as both regimes attempted to secure dominance in Asia.

After nearly two centuries of expansion and military might, the Bovido Hassian empire began to crumble under the hubris of it's own institutions. Many of the Has provinces received new devolved governments, such as in the dominion of Persia Has. In 2020, the regime suffered catastrophic losses during the Hǔnluàn's terrorist campaign, and Archbishop 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 capitulate under the pressure of the Has Wars, struggling to fight off 3 nations (Obadiah Has, the Fox Dynasty and the Emirate of Persia) and recapture fallen territory after the defection of much of the Lord's Grand 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. With the destruction of the Tokyo Bovido eventual, the Jerusalem Bovido quickly became the largest Bovido Remnant and began a campaign of destruction against the remaining remnants in a contingency plan executed by Anton Ujung.

### Contingency

 Main article: Bovido Hassian Contingency

 **Cardinal of Bovido Has****Reign**Contingency • Has Wars • Has Union • Jerusalem Bovido • Bovido Has Grand Council • Holy Clergy of Bovido Has • Bovido Remnants

Attempting to raise the nation from the depths of chaos from the brutal Has Wars which has wreaked the continent of Asia into a mess of fractions and remnants left over from the Hǔnluàn attacks on the Persian Republic, as well as the scattered remnants of the collapsed Tokyo Bovido, the long planned Bovido Hassian Contingency was put into affect, awakening a contingent of dormant fleets to follow the orders of Cardinal Anton Ujung in his plan to cull the forces of the remnants of his defeated nation and regrow anew. Striking out at numerous Bovido Remnants and bringing back the brightest and best into the newly formed restoration of Bovido Has, Cardinal Ujung benefited from the Libirachi Empire turning a blind eye to his activities as a result of their Civil War between 2022 and 2024.

Having taken the remaining forces of the Tokyo Bovido and fled into the Pacific, High Admiral Etsushi Toyo proclaimed himself Emperor of Bovido Has on September 1, 2021, having played a key role in the deaths of Syli Dean and his inner circle of advisors. Likewise, Damacus Visus had seized power in the Palestine Has with the help of Legate Cragen, who unbeknownst to him was working for Cardinal Ujung to prolong the war and deplete the Palestine Has' resources, declaring himself emperor in late 2022.

With Russia Has reorganising into the Russian Federation in 2022 and the Bovido Line falling to Libirachi forces at the start of the same year, Ujung set about consolidating his power in the middle east, although the Confederacy of Independent Nations refused to allow the reformed nation to enter into its alliance, instead opting for a policy of ignoring the nation until what the CIN assumed would be a confederate victory at the end of the war. Propping up a fragile Egypt Has in northern Africa, the newly reformed Jerusalem Bovido acted as a confederacy of states rather than as a nation as a whole, laying down the founding steps of the soon to come Imperium, whilst the central government in Jerusalem attempted to bring the confederated nations closer together under the leadership of Anton Ujung.

### Formation of the Imperium

After 7 years at the head of the largest Bovido remnant, Cardinal Anton Ujung set about attempting to build his forces into a new superpower nation capable of besting the Libirachi Empire in conflict and re-building Bovido dominance on the global stage. Beginning with an internal reorganising, the Jerusalem Bovido became the Bovido Imperium, literally meaning Bovido Empire, and Ujung had himself crowned as Imperator of the regime following a merger with the puppet remnant state of Egypt Has. A vast re-armament campaign was launched and the armed forces of the new government began to grow in power massively; meanwhile, the internal political structures were redrafted and the imperium became made up of two separate member regions, North Africa and Jerusalem State, which had their own Prime Minsters appointed by Ujung, whilst North Africa became a region controlled by the military. In November 2030, Imperator Ujung negotiated a merger with the Holy Republic of ST Joseph's Devotees to combine the forces of the two national adherents to the Final Testament, bringing the devotees into the Imperium as the state of Pindorama with Magisterium leader Marisa Belacqua becoming Prime Minister of Pindorama under the new union, though she retained a high level of autonomy from the main Jerusalem based regime.

Alongside the political restructuring of the nation, Anton Ujung set about integrating the Bovido Clergy and the Pindoraman Magisterium into a unified church of the final testament, framing the move as a demonstration of the purity of the Bovido religion and attempting to stoke division between the extremists of the Final Testament and the more mainstream followers of the Old and New testaments of the bible. As part of this ideological posturing, Ujung began to order the expansion of the military forces once again, with a mass build-up of the Bovido military taking place along the Gaza coastline and in the military junta of North Africa; the Bovido Imperium benefited from establishing itself during a global financial crisis, which left the nation largely unscathed thanks to it's isolated nature from the global economy, allowing the Bovido Imperium to continue to grow whilst every other nation struggled under budget deficits, whilst also able to operate without gaining much attention from the neighbouring Libirachi Empire.

### Conquest of Africa

 Main article: Conquest of Africa
In 2031, Bovido posturing on the international stage caused the unstable Islamic nations of northern Africa to unite into the United Arab Republic in an attempt to ward off Bovido influence in the region, although in doing so the nations conveniently made themselves a target for the Imperium, with Imperator Anton Ujung ordering plans for a full invasion of the UAR to be ready for the second half 2033. Subsequently on September 1, 2033, Major General Torrent Koon led the armies of the Bovido Imperium into an Invasion of Egypt, quickly toppling the regime of the Egyptian Islamic Brotherhood by mid-November 2033. However, by October 2033 the Libirachi Empire had coordinated a united front of satellite states and puppet regimes to declare war on the Bovido Imperium to try to prevent their conquest of Africa.

Deciding upon the need for a decisive blow to be struck against one of the Libirachi allies, Imperator Ujung ordered a raid on the Persian capital of Nupersia on November 30, 2033 which saw the air wing of the Imperium strike enormous damage on the Persian Republic, killing Prime Minister Emanuel Parra and forcing the shut-down of the Persian Congress. However, Persian retaliatory attacks with Libirachi backing caused immense damage to the city of Jerusalem during the Christmas Attacks which forced Imperator Anton Ujung to flee the capital and seek refuge in Pindorama, under the guise of visiting Prime Minister Marisa Belacqua. The attacks saw the Libirachi Empire effectively wipe out Bovido satellite communications, albeit temporarily, and the various states of the Imperium began to become politically fractured without the presence of their leader. The Bovido campaign against Persia was quietly dropped in February 2034 with the launch of Operation Avestor and the Battle for Morocco, with armies launching across the Atlantic from northern Pindorama and landing on the west coast of Africa, storming through the United Arab Republic and securing several humiliating defeats against the Arab forces, before capturing the entire western coast of the nation, as well as securing dominance over the Gibraltar Strait, in the process damaging the international standings of Spain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

At the same time, fear of the Bovido Imperium had caused a series of sub-Saharan African states to unite together into the North African Federation in an attempt to ward off Bovido influence in the region and to prevent the Bovido armies from travelling further south. However, a series of internal coups and democratic takeovers coordinated by agents of the imperium allowed the Christian Loyalist party led by Jean Bagasauo to seize control over the entire nation by August 2035, inviting the Bovido army to protect the region and appointing prime minister Torrent Koon as Vice President of the federation in July 2035. Despite successes in taking over the North African Federation, the Bovido Imperium struggled to subjugate the United Arab Republic resulting in the Imperium's first defeats of the war; against this backdrop, the Shanghai Pact launched an invasion of Jerusalem State in May 2035 and had success in occupying large swathes of the region. In an attempt to end resistance to the Bovido Imperium, Imperator Anton Ujung ordered the decimation of Tunis, obliterating the city with a thermo-nuclear bomb, causing widespread fear of his instability within the circles of Bovido government.

## Imperium

The Bovido Imperium has four main arms of the state, the **Clergy**, the **Magisterium**, the **Maximo** **Exercitus** and the **Praesidium**, which deal with the running of churches and religious doctrine; matters of state and enforcement; the army; and governance and general control over the nation respectively. Each main part of the Imperium had its own branch of the church, with the Middle East being dominated by the Clergy, South America had the Magisterium and North Africa was largely a military state under the control of the Maximo Exercitus, often shortened to simply the Exercitus. All of these entities working together became known as the Imperium, although the term Magisterium, after the organisation, also came to be used to name all the different wings of the Bovido Imperium.

## Leadership

### Imperator

    The Imperator of the Bovido Imperium is the head of state of the nation, effectively acting as the replacement to the Emperor of Bovido Has within the new Imperium, and is the head of the Clergy and Magisterium respectively following the merging of the ST Joseph's Devotees into the Imperium in 2030. The Imperator also presides over the various state entities of the Praesidium and controls almost every aspect of the empire either directly or through proxies such as the Bovido Prime Ministers, who control each state within the collective empire, a system devised to ensure that the gross centralism of the old Bovido Has would never take a foothold within the regime as Anton Ujung plotted the resurgence of the Bovido faith.

### Regional Prime Ministers

#### Prime Minister of Pindorama

 Main article: Prime Minister of Pindorama

### Grand Council

 Main article: Grand Council of the Bovido Imperium
    The Grand Council of the Bovido Imperium is a central state organ of the Praesidium of the Bovido Imperium, bringing together the leaders of the Holy Clergy, Magisterium and the Maximo Exercitus Imperium, as well as the regional prime ministers of the imperium. Similar in design to the Bovido Has Grand Council, the Imperium's version had the power to control the vast armies of the imperium as well as having the final say on most areas of domestic policy. Chaired nominally by the Bovido Imperator, day-to-day running of the body was led by the Cardinal of the Holy Clergy and the body largely ran separately from the Imperator. Founded in 2028 alongside the formation of the imperium, the council proved its own power in 2036 when a majority of the members led a coup d'état against Imperator Anton Ujung during the Conquest of Africa.

## 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 paridise 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.

### 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)
* Jerusalem Bovido (2021 - 2028)
* 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