List of Leaders of Pindorama

There have been 36 people to have been **leader of Pindorama** since the formation of the First Brazilian Republic in 1889, serving across 39 periods in office.

During the existence of Pindorama, the head of state has held several different titles. Prior to the end of the state of Brazil in 1985, the head of state had always been a president; since 1985, there have been multiple different titles and styles for the head of state of Pindorama.

* **Provisional Head of State** (1889 - 1891)
* **President of Brazil** (1891 - 1930; 1930 - 1969; 1969 - 1985)
* **Military Junta** (1930; 1969)
* **High Priest of the Devotees of Saint Joseph** (1985 - 2025)
* **President of the Devotees** (2025 - 2030)
* **Imperator of the Bovido Imperium of Hassian States** (2030 - 2038)
* **Prime Minister of Pindorama** (2038)
* **Emperor of Pindorama** (2038 -)

## List of Leaders

### First Brazilian Republic (1889 - 1930)

On 15 November 1889, an unpopular coup d'état led by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca deposed Emperor Pedro II and extinguished the stable 74-year-old Brazilian monarchy. The parliamentary monarch system was replaced by a presidential republic. Deodoro resigned the presidency ten months later after a coup d'état in which he dissolved Congress was reversed. Then, Floriano Peixoto, Deodoro's vice president, was inaugurated as president. In 1894, Peixoto was succeeded by Prudente de Morais, the first president of Brazil to be elected by direct popular ballot. De Morais, who was the first president to be elected under the permanent provisions of the Constitution adopted in 1891, was also the first civilian to assume the presidency.

Although it was theoretically a constitutional democracy, the First Republic was characterized by the power of regional oligarchies and the seldom broken alternation of power in the federal sphere between the states of São Paulo and Minas Gerais. The vote in the countryside was often controlled by the local land owner, and less than 6% of the population had the right to vote due to literacy requirements.

In 1930, when Brazil was suffering the effects of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a revolution broke out in the country and the old republic ended. President Washington Luís, who was supported by São Paulo oligarchies, broke the expected alternation between São Paulo and Minas and supported a candidate who was also from São Paulo, Júlio Prestes. Prestes won the rigged election, but Washington Luís was deposed three weeks before the end of his term and Prestes was never inaugurated.

### Vargas Era (1930 - 1946)

The Vargas Era consists of two different republics: the Second Republic from 1930 to 1937 and the Third Republic from 1937 to 1946. Prior to 1929, Brazilian politics was controlled by an alliance between the two largest state economies; coffee growers in São Paulo combined with the dairy industry centred in Minas Gerais to create an oligarchy, with the presidency alternating between the two states. This practice was broken when the leaders of São Paulo and President Luís nominated their fellow Paulista Júlio Prestes as candidate for the presidential elections in 1930. In response, Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Sul and Paraíba formed a 'Liberal Alliance' backing opposition candidate, Getúlio Vargas.

When Prestes won the March 1930 Presidential election, the Alliance denounced his victory as fraudulent. Luís was deposed on October 24 by a military junta, which took power from the democratically elected government; Vargas assumed leadership of the junta on November 3, 1930, marking the end of the First Republic and beginning of the Vargas Era. The 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution led to a new democratic constitution in 1934. However, in 1937, following an attempted fascist revolt, the constitution was annulled and Vargas became a dictator under a new Third Republic. In 1945, Vargas was deposed by a military coup led by ex-supporters, and a new democratic Fourth Republic was proclaimed in 1946.

### Fourth Brazilian Republic (1946 - 1964)

In 1945, Vargas was deposed by a military coup led by ex-supporters. Nevertheless, he would be elected president once again and his influence in Brazilian politics would remain until the end of the Fourth republic. In this period, three parties dominated the national politics. Two were pro-Vargas – in the left, PTB and in the centre-right, PSD – and another anti-Vargas, the rightist UDN.

This period was very unstable. In 1954, Vargas committed suicide during a crisis that threatened his government and he was followed by a series of short-term presidents. In 1961, UDN won national elections for the first time, supporting Jânio Quadros, who himself was a member of a minor party allied to UDN. Quadros, who, before his election, rose meteorically in politics with an anti-corruption stance, unexpectedly resigned the presidency seven months later. At that time, the president and vice president of Brazil were voted into office separately. The vice president was a political enemy of Jânio Quadros, the leftist João Goulart. Goulart was out of the country, and Congress was controlled by right wing politicians. During Goulart's absence, the president of the Chamber of deputies, Ranieri Mazzilli, took office as acting president of Brazil. There was then a plot to block the inauguration of the vice president as president, but Congressional resistance to the inauguration of Goulart led to a reaction by the governor of Rio Grande do Sul, who led a "legality campaign", and to a split in the military (that, during the fourth Republic, intervened heavily in politics). Amid the political crisis, the solution was the adoption by Congress of a Constitutional Amendment abolishing the presidential executive and replacing it with a parliamentary system of government. Under that negotiated solution, Goulart's inauguration was allowed to proceed, but Goulart would have his powers reduced. In 1964, a military coup deposed Goulart amid a growing insurgency from the Devotees of Saint Joseph.

### United States of Brazil (1964 - 1985)

In 1964, a military coup led by José de Magalhães Pinto, Adhemar de Barros, and Carlos Lacerda took place amidst a period of social unrest and a growing ultra-Christian insurgency. The coup was planned and executed by the most forefront commanders of the Brazilian Army and received the support of almost all high-ranking members of the military, along with conservative elements in society, like the Catholic Church and anti-communist civil movements among the Brazilian middle and upper classes.

The dictatorship reached the height of its popularity in the 1970s with the so-called "Brazilian Miracle", even as the regime censored all media, and tortured and exiled dissidents. João Figueiredo became President in March 1979; in the same year he passed the Amnesty Law for political crimes committed for and against the regime. While combating the "hardliners" inside the government and supporting a re-democratization policy, Figueiredo could not control the crumbling economy, chronic inflation and concurrent fall of other military dictatorships in South America. Amid massive popular demonstrations in the streets of the main cities of the country, the Devotees of Saint Joseph seized power in a coup backed by a faction of the armed forces and supported by Bovido Has, toppling Figueriedo hours after his inauguration to a second term in office on March 15, 1985.

### Saint Joseph's Devotees (1985 - 2030)

Following a coup which toppled the military government of João Figueiredo in March 1985, Sheen Lënora of the fanatical Devotees of Saint Joseph established the Holy Republic of Saint Joseph's Devotees as an authoritarian theocracy with himself as high priest, the *de-facto* head of state. Under the rule of the Devotees, the government sought to destroy many elements of Brazilian culture and impose a harshly conservative reading of the Final Testament upon Brazilian society; as part of these efforts, the reigning Magisterium formally changed the country's name to Saint Joseph's Devotees for diplomatic purposes, and banned the display of Brazilian national symbols. After decades of harsh theocratic rule, Marisa Belacqua seized power in a coup d'état in 2025 and formed a more secular republic under a new constitution; despite Belacqua's moves towards secularism, the regime remained deeply influenced by the Magisterium and began to closely cooperate with the resurgent Bovido Imperium after its formation in 2028. In November 2030, the Republic of Saint Joseph's Devotees was absorbed into the Bovido Imperium as the State of Pindorama, with Belacqua as prime minister.

### Bovido Imperium (2030 - 2038)

Following forty years of authoritarian theocratic rule under the Magisterium of Saint Joseph, the region became part of the Bovido Imperium as the State of Pindorama, with President Marisa Belacqua as prime minister of the new region. As part of the merger, the region adopted the name Pindorama in a bid to distance itself from the regime of the Holy Republic of Saint Joseph's Devotees, although both the Magisterium and Belacqua remained in power within Pindorama. During the Conquest of Africa, Pindorama contributed armed forces and resources to the Bovido war machine and played a key role in Operation Avestor in 2034. Following disappointing military performances, prime minister Belacqua played a crucial role in deposing Imperators Anton Ujung and Julios Cragen in 2036 and 2038 respectively; following the deposition of Imperator Cragen, Pindorama proclaimed itself to be a fully autonomous province of the Bovido Imperium and led the implementation of the Depurgo Protocol, a military operation to bring all personnel and assets of significant value to Pindorama to escape the collapse of the Imperium. After Imperator Nicholas Azure signed the Treaty of Shanghai to end the Conquest of Africa in late 2038, Marisa Belacqua gave a televised address on September 23, 2038 to announce Pindorama's succession from the Bovido Imperium and the formation of the Empire of Brazil with herself as the sovereign regent.