Dune Salov

**Dune Hashim Salov** (Loxenian: **Дюна Салов**) (April 28, 1968 - November 2, 2018) was a Loxenian politician and statesman who served as the thirteenth President of Loxenia between August 10, 2010 and August 10, 2018, as well as the sixth Vice President of Loxenia between August 10, 2018 and his execution by Black Eagle terrorists on November 2, 2018 at the height of the Loxenian Civil War.

Winning the 2010 Presidential election in a landslide, Dune Salov and the National Coalition swept to power on the back of the carnage created by the Meciar and Capentov governments, winning over huge swathes of the population with the promise to bring order and stability back to the nation. As a group of terrorists known as the Black Eagles began to emerge in mid 2010 as a serious threat to the security of the nation, President Salov began to ramp up military funding, ordering a rapid re-militarization of the country, before an attack on a Loxenia-Libirachi boarder outpost started the Loxenian Civil War in 2011, with the Libirachi Empire rolling its army across the boarder to help the Black Eagles, whilst President Salov struggled to secure any international help from any of the N20 members.

Following the loss of the Crimean peninsula to the Libirachi Empire, President Dune Salov began to try to secure a United Nations resolution to condemn the actions of Libirachi President Nathan Jackson and his programme of domination in Asia, although movements behind the scenes from the Libirachi Imperial Security Bureau worked to torpedo the move and instead Loxenia found itself mostly friendless and Vice President Ryan Jones became increasingly deployed across the world in an attempt to gain new allies. With control over much of the eastern part of Loxenia split between the Libirachi Empire and the Black Eagles, President Dune Salov enacted martial law in March 2014 and banned all other political parties from standing against the governing National Coalition for the 2014 Loxenian Presidential Election, subsequently winning in a landslide in an election that many Western nations and opposition groups denounced as unfair and illegal.

As war began to enter it's sixth year, the United Nations passed a proclamation denouncing the Loxenian civil war, citing the vast plethora of war crimes committed by all sides as justification for a joint task-force entry into Loxenia, although said task-force failed to materialise as the N20 with Libirachi President Nathan Jackson at the head of calls to prevent an intervention, whilst Loxenian President Dune Salov numerous times sent out requests to receive aid from international players, with US President George Zander sending military trainers to help prop up the failing Loxenian government. In 2018, the constitutional limit of presidential terms ran out for Salov, with him swapping positions with his Vice President in the 2018 Loxenian Presidential Election. Inheriting a failing state from his predecessor, President Jones tenure saw the Black Eagles lead riots and protests nationwide, beginning a riot in Kiev on September 29, 2018 that quickly erupted into a chaotic mess, spewing into the main streets of the capital on November 1 and on November 2 the rioters broke into the Presidential palace, with Black Eagle agents using the opportunity to assassinate both President Jones and Vice President Salov.

## Presidency

 Vice President

Winning the 2010 election in a landslide, Dune Salov and the National Coalition swept to power on the back of the carnage created by the Meciar and Capentov governments, winning over huge swathes of the population with the promise to bring order and stability back to the nation. Aggravated with the lack of central control and strong leadership, a faction of terrorists under the banner of the Black Eagles began to emerge in the eastern regions of Loxenia in 2011, just a year after Dune Salov and the National Coalition of Loxenia swept to power in the 2010 Presidential Election, beginning their reign of terror with a bombing attack on the Libirachi Embassy in the capital city of Kiev, leaving hundreds dead and aggravating the Libirachi Empire, who unbeknownst to the Loxenian regime had sponsored the terror attacks as a front for an invasion of Loxenia under the premise of protection and stability. Led by recently promoted General Cassio Tagge of the Imperial Occupation Army, the Libirachi Imperial Army rolled over the boarder to invade as an act of retaliation for the bombing, which the blame was placed upon the Loxenian government; within days, the superior LIA had overwhelmed the boarder forces of the LAF, securing a large part of the eastern boarder under it's control. With the crisis beginning to spiral out of control, President Dune Salov ordered the Loxenian Armed Forces to conduct an immediate counter offensive to re-take the land stolen by the insurgent and Libirachi coalition. With the terror attacks from the Black Eagles still ongoing and the Loxenian boarder still under gradual assault from the Libirachi Imperial Army, President Dune Salov proclaimed the conflict as a civil war for the identity of Loxenia in a speech to the Loxenian congress in February 2012, ramping up attacks on the Libirachi Imperial Army at the eastern boarder, whilst putting up the death penalty for any citizen found to be assisting the Black Eagles, who had begun to ramp up their efforts into suicide bombings and assassinations, killing off the first Salov cabinet by June 2012 before beginning a campaign of insurrectionist action in which different states within the nation were targeted for uprising campaigns in which citizens were encouraged to rise up against their governors. Likewise in the east, the Libirachi Empire annexed the peninsula of Crimea using brute force, starving the state of water for months before the regime capitulated to Libirachi rule and became part of the empire.

Following the loss of the Crimean peninsula to the Libirachi Empire, President Dune Salov began to try to secure a United Nations resolution to condemn the actions of Libirachi President Nathan Jackson and his programme of domination in Asia, although movements behind the scenes from the Libirachi Imperial Security Bureau worked to torpedo the move and instead Loxenia found itself mostly friendless and Vice President Ryan Jones became increasingly deployed across the world in an attempt to gain new allies. With control over much of the eastern part of Loxenia split between the Libirachi Empire and the Black Eagles, President Dune Salov enacted martial law in March 2014 and banned all other political parties from standing against the governing National Coalition for the 2014 Loxenian Presidential Election, subsequently winning in a landslide in an election that many Western nations and opposition groups denounced as unfair and illegal, branding President Salov as a "tin-pot dictator", in the words of UK Prime Minister David Cameron. Having secured a (contested) mandate for a new term in office, President Dune Salov began to further consolidate power to his office in order to fight off the coalition of allies fighting for control over his nation, although a bill dismissing parliament was revoked by the courts and failed to pass a majority in session, leading to the creation of a new parliament, the Парламент штату or State Parliament, which was made up of candidates selected by the National Coalition rather than the general electorate, leading to further claims of Salov ruling by decree as a dictator. As war began to enter it's sixth year, the United Nations passed a proclamation denouncing the Loxenian civil war, citing the vast plethora of war crimes committed by all sides as justification for a joint task-force entry into Loxenia, although said task-force failed to materialise as the N20 with Libirachi President Nathan Jackson at the head of calls to prevent an intervention, whilst Loxenian President Dune Salov numerous times sent out requests to receive aid from international players, with US President George Zander sending military trainers to help prop up the failing Loxenian government. With the two sides settling into stalemate, Loxenia became divided between government and rebel states although no new government had been created in the rebel provinces to act as a replacement to the old regime.

## Vice Presidency

 President

In the summer of 2018 the constitutional limit of presidential terms ran out for Salov, with him swapping positions with his Vice President in the 2018 Loxenian Presidential Election. Inheriting a failing state from his predecessor, President Jones tenure saw the Black Eagles lead riots and protests nationwide, beginning a riot in Kiev on September 29, 2018 that quickly erupted into a chaotic mess, spewing into the main streets of the capital on November 1 and on November 2 the rioters broke into the Presidential palace, with Black Eagle agents using the opportunity to assassinate both President Jones and Vice President Salov. Among the casualties of the November riots included former president Suzana Capentov and former vice president Michala Kargen who were both killed whilst trying to separately escape the city. With the heads of government dead, the nation descended into a state of anarchy, with gangs and criminals ruling the streets whilst the Black Eagles turned a blind eye to the suffering of its people, as the remnants of the former government retreated to the west of the nation to rebuild.

 August 10, 2006 - August 10, 2010
 August 10, 2010 - August 10, 2018