Bovido State of North Africa

The **Holy State of Northern Africa and Military Occupied Regions** (Latin: **Sancta Civitas Africae Septentrionis et Regionum Militiarum**), also known as **Bovido North Africa** or occasionally simply **North Africa**, was a federal state within the Bovido Imperium of Hassian States from August 10, 2038 until it's dissolution in 2038.

Following the Has Wars of 2020-2022, the Holy Empire of Bovido Has was forcefully dissolved and collapsed into factional rump states across the middle east and north Africa. After the Invasion of Belitung and the collapse of the central Bovido Hassian government in May 2021, the Bovido regional government of Egypt declared itself independent and allied itself briefly with the Tokyo Bovido before also breaking away from that regime. Instead, Egypt Has proclaimed it's complete sovereignty under the leadership of an executive president, that being Abdel el-Sisi. Later the same year, Major General Michael Clod conducted a coup d'état and installed a military junta regime with loyalties to the neighbouring Jerusalem Bovido, which in effect transformed Egypt Has into a satellite or vasal state of its neighbour; under the leadership of Clod, the governments of the Jerusalem and Egyptian remnants began to merge, with Clod taking up a senior leadership position within the Jerusalem army and imposing almost direct rule upon the population.

In 2028, Egypt Has formally joined with the Jerusalem Bovido to form the Bovido Imperium and on September 10, 2028 the state legally dissolved, instead becoming the region of North Africa within the new Imperium, similar to the status of the Jerusalem Bovido which became the region of Jerusalem State. Under the new imperium, the Egyptian provinces remained under tight military control and Michael Clod briefly remained as the leader of the state, before handing power and authority over to High Admiral Torrent Koon. Under Koon's leadership, the state of North Africa began to integrate with the neighbouring Jerusalem State and political entities between the two states began to merge into one unified government - despite this, the military controlled regions in the state were larger in size than civilian clergy governed areas, meaning Prime Minister Koon had significant personal influence as the *de-facto* head of the military.

In September 2033 the Bovido Imperium launched an invasion of the Islamic Emirate of Egypt, expanding the military controlled regions of North Africa into the whole of Egypt. Following the outbreak of the Conquest of Africa and the invasion of the United Arab Republic, the state of North Africa was further expanded across the entire north of the continent, along the boarder with the North African Federation. After the 2036 Bovido Coup d'état, newly installed Imperator Julios Cragen began attempting a peace process with the Shanghai Pact and agreed to the Treaty of Beijing, which would have seen the State of North Africa dissolved and handed over the the Shanghai Pact Administrative Zone in Africa (SPAZA); despite the formation of the SPAZA, prime minister Torrent Koon actively refused to hand over territory to the region and ultimately defected to the North African Federation, before staging a coup in the NAF and launching an invasion of Bovido North Africa. Internal stability in the state continued to fall apart after the Shanghai Pact launched an invasion of the state in October 2037, whilst the province of Egypt became subject to a revolution in early 2038.

The State of North Africa was governed by a devolved administration led by a prime minister, who would be directly appointed at the imperator's instruction, and a local bureaucracy responsible for administering the region - at the same time, significant portions of the state remained under military control. As the leader of one of the federal states of the Bovido Imperium, the prime minister of North Africa was automatically a member of the Grand Council of the Bovido Imperium and reported to the Cardinal of the Holy Clergy on matters of political policy. The only way to remove the prime minister from their office would be a direct dismissal by the imperator; similarly, the prime minister was entitled to cast a vote if the matter of impeachment from the role of imperator was put to the Grand Council, as happened in 2036 with the dismissal of Imperator Anton Ujung and again in 2038 with the dismissal of Imperator Julios Cragen.