Hubay Kapoor

### Ideology

Corporatism, Capitalism, Pseudo-Democracy,Meritocracy, Statism, Political Mormonism, Pro-Americanism

## Early Life and Career as a soldier

Hubay Kapoor was born in 1958 in Dagrentz to a Burmese/Indian/Ukrainian Father and a Hungarian mother,  both were a part of a small offshoot of the Presbyterian church called the church of joy. Hubay's father was a traveling businessman's ship hand, the businessman he worked for had died of yellow fever in Brazil. This left him with enough money to travel to New York but had been dumped as many UAS citizens had in Dagrentz. He then worked as a fishmonger and married another fishmonger. Hubay was born unexpectedly and was bought up gutting fish with blades.

He eventually was called to fight in the Philippines and assist Ferdinand Marcos' government suppress a Communist uprising in 1980. He performed poorly and was diagnosed with PTSD in an undisclosed event, and was despised by his comrades and was re-deployed from the role of policeman to the role of supplier. Hubay assisted in supplying the army with rifles and armor. It was here that Hubay succeeded in correcting mistakes in supply and grew to receive respect for his actions.

## Political Career

In 1983 Hubay was again re-deployed to assist the labor council write the annual budget for the Weapons industry. This year Jozef Steinmeier started his plans to make nuclear weapons. As a consequence Hubay received praise for the growth of the weapons industry that year. Hubay was given credit by the corporate council, he accepted it.

In 1986 Hubay was re-deployed to the organization council to assist with the influx of new regulations passed under Ullslaw Illyvich. Hubay was given credit for carrying out orders well, much like what had transpired under the Labor Council. In each case, Hubay gained both experience and favor with both mainstream political parties and saw his career as a bipartisan middleman as set. However, in the late 1980s fear of communism subsided weakening the militaristic position of the Conservative Republican party as well as losing it a common scapegoat to serve as the embodiment of secularism.

Once more a new generation who had grown up in cities and were more likely to convert to Protestantism spooked both parties as this event lead to greater Individualism and less respect for authority which put both parties at risk as their platforms relied on collective identity and respect for technocrats in the cases of the Conservative Republican and Refined state parties. In addition, Ullslaw illyvich had failed to appeal to the party base for being too moderate and Jozef Steinmeiers foreign policy had increased taxes, on top of a recession in the US in the late 1980s and a new wave of international migrants, each of the two mainstream parties saw their year on year popularity decline without the others increasing for the first time since the early 1970s. Making matters worse, social democrats were now feeding on the popularity lost by the two parties. By 1989 The social democrats wer  polling ahead of both parties individually. In September 1989 the two parties agreed to merge and form a joint platform. However they could not agree on who should be the candidate for the next election. They set up a primary and Hubay was nominated alongside fifty other individuals. To reduce the number of nominations the primary committees banned convicted criminals from running in the race. This reduced the number of people running to forty. After 14 rounds of eliminations, Hubay was chosen. Ostensibly, the reason for his success was firstly his success with both political parties, secondl,y he was a non-catholic and non-orthodox candidate which increased his viability, third he was the first candidate from either brentz or dagrentz which were historically regions that were electorally most important because they often changed opinions and had one-third of the country's population, fourth he had no criminal convictions or active court cases against him, and fifth he was a political outsider who had worked for parties but had never been a member of one making him again more appealing.

There was one question on everyone's mind throughout the process:

Would he accept the job?

Hubay had not actually nominated himself and was reluctant to participate which made many suspicious that he might lead the country down an indecisive path. But he accepted and became the head of the New Meritocratic Order party in 1990 and ran for election. Despite the unappealing nature of the merger for both party bases, they both voted for Hubay out of fear that the social democrats would be elected if they did not.

## Early Presidency and economic policy

Hubay won a sweeping victory with a supermajority in parliament. Everyone was worried that Hubay would squander the opportunity to use control of all three houses of the legislature to his advantage due to his deeply cautious and peaceful nature but were all surprised when Hubay used this power to implement strict censorship, create a state controlled public broadcasting station, and create several puppet political parties to splinter opposition votes, and several other parties to form a coalition with Hubay's party and widen its appeal.

The social democrats protested but were forced to maintain silence after a series of speech-regulating acts were passed allegedly to prevent extremism from spreading. Social democrats attempted to file court actions against Hubay but they were unsuccessful. Some became worried that Hubay would undermine the separation of powers in UAS but were again surprised when Hubay left the organization council and Labor Council intact. Hubay did however create an internal policing agency that was responsible for policing the activities of members of the three councils and preventing corruption. Under Hubays leadership, corruption was reduced and several past plots by leaders to exploit the country for wealth and torture individuals were exposed. Some people argued that Hubay was a hypocrite because he invested in construction corporations while also being the one responsible for regulating and investing in them, this was classified by some as conflict of interest. No formal penal court actions were taken.

Hubay also created a hybrid of Eva and Jan's economic plans and implemented three more five year plans in 1990, 1995 and 2003. Hubays reign saw UAS develop into an advanced country or a country with very-high HDI, that being said the growth per year metrics were lower than under Jan and Eva whose administrations had developed their respective economies very quickly progressing from a low HDI country to a Medium HDI country in 10 years, as opposed to high to very high in 30 years.

Hubay was extremely popular in the north islands of Voysowei which supported his drives to improve Healthcare and his 5 year plan to introduce the software industry in Voysowei. And then Gottheim which supported his 5 year plan to bring electronics manufacturing, and also his initiatives in military buildup. These islands were also where his party base was located.

## Later Presidency and growing controversy

He was less popular in Zhaprinsk and Chaprasz for his harsh anti-corruption, public safety, and anti-terrorist campaigns which affected these areas in particular. Hubay cracked down harshly on any kind of disorder of any kind within the country and was largely successful. Hubay also did not win a sweeping majority in Dagrentz and Brentz as onlookers had thought he would, the reason for this was that his illiberal policies came across as vicious and unappealing to the socially liberal working and middle classes in those areas. Despite this Hubay consistently won elections because of his appeal to Voysowei, Gottheim, and Thureanu who made up the party base. He also thoroughly consolidated the vote of migrants and minorities who were predominantly from India, Mexico,  China, Indonesia and the west coast of Africa partly because he was a minority and partly because he reduced border control to allow more migrants in.

## Legacy

The three provinces' undying support combined with the vote of migrants in addition to tactics such as vote splintering, propaganda playing on public broadcasting, pervasive censorship, and infighting on the side of the social democrats lead to five consecutive electoral victories and more electoral victories and a longer rule than any other leader in UAS history.

Hubay enjoys a very bizarre equally split approval rating now that his reign is over, but during his reign his approval was high largely owing to his attempts to control public opinion. One way Hubay gained support from his base was with his status as a vehement anti-communist, he supported several campaigns pacify communists within Chaprasz and also worldwide in the Philippines, India, Ukraine and other countries. Hubay also increased military spending to the point where it became the second-largest military power. Hubay was eventually voted out in 2020 due to poor handling of the pandemic. He was replaced by the social democrats. Hubay is generally considered the most important, but not the most liked, president in the history of UAS owing to his long time rule, and his shaping of UAS culturally, economically and internationally. Every foreign military base owned by UAS was built under Hubay and his successor vice president. The economy now relies on industries fostered during his reign like electronics manufacturing and software engineering. And the culture of the country is now shaped by Hubay's public broadcasting system which preaches Christianity, tolerance of minorities, respect for authority and collectivism every day twenty four hours a day.

Hubay assisted reverse cultural liberalization while also moderately improving the economy simultaneously. Hubay also improved relations with the USA and saw relations with mainland China sharply deteriorate over economic and geopolitical rivalries. Hubays thirty years in power can be divided into three parts:

1 - Three five year plans, electoral consolidation.

2 - Developing trade deals with global producers through supporting anti-communist leaders and providing aid and morale support, hostile takeover of news stations.

3 - Rivalry with China, a crackdown on corruption crime extremism, and terrorism.

Hubay remains a viable candidate for president despite his age and fall from grace, largely due to his consolidation of political power.