Bovido Imperator

Flag of the Bovido Imperator

 Nation
 Type
 Appointer
 Formation
 First Holder
 Final Holder

The **Bovido Imperator**, also known as the **Bovido Emperor** or simply as the **Imperator**, was the title given to the *de-jure* leader of the Bovido Imperium and was the leader of all major state institutions within the body, governing through proxies managed through the Grand Council of the Bovido Imperium. Established on August 10, 2028 with the formation of the Bovido Imperium, Anton Ujung became the first Bovido Imperator and set about rebuilding the nation into an international superpower nation, leading the regime into the Conquest of Africa. The office was abolished on September 24, 2038 with the dissolution of the Bovido Imperium.

As the head of state, the throne of the Bovido Imperator was the main source of power within the regime, although it's power began to become diluted during the Conquest of Africa as individual regimes began to gain more and more autonomy, resulting in the title effectively being a figurehead for the more powerful offices of the regional prime ministers by the time of the January Coup which placed Julios Cragen as the leader of the nation.

Officially, the Bovido Imperator was responsible for the appointment of regional prime ministers and the appointment of a cardinal to run the government on their behalf, as well as appointing all senior military figures. Theoretically the imperator retained a high degree of political power, though this was diluted during the course of the Conquest of Africa as military and regional figures vied for power. Likewise, despite the *de-jure* powers to appoint and replace prime ministers, in *de-facto* reality the imperator was constrained by the regional authorities of the regions who had the right of refusal for prime ministers.

The title could, however, be removed by a majority vote of the Grand Council of the Bovido Imperium, through which Julios Cragen was able to overthrow Anton Ujung in 2036 - under Cragen's premiership, many of the centralised powers were dispersed as Cragen pursued a peace treaty with the Libirachi Empire to try to end the Conquest of Africa. Despite the peace treaty, war continued after the Bovido Imperium's government began to collapse over the summer of 2036, with Prime Minister Torrent Koon even defecting from the regime. After the Bovido capital city of Jerusalem was encircled on January 3, 2038, the Grand Council formally impeached Julios Cragen on March 23, 2038 and replaced him with former cardinal Nicholas Azure.

## Past Imperators

### Anton Ujung; (2028 - 2036)

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, Bovido Has became the Bovido Imperium, literally meaning Bovido Empire, and Ujung had himself crowned as Imperator of the regime. 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; able to operate without gaining much attention from the Libirachi Empire, 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.

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 Persia, 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.

    Following months of poorly coordinated military failures during the Libirachi Empire's Invasion of Jerusalem State, as well as a stagnant effort in the Bovido Invasion of Libya, on November 25, 2035 Imperator Anton Ujung ordered a thermonuclear strike against the city of Tunis, capital of the United Arab Republic, which began to fracture the unity of the Bovido Imperium's leadership. With Imperator Anton Ujung unaware of the plots against him, having trusted Inquisitor Kolas completely in his task to prevent unrest within the imperium, High Admiral Torrent Koon used his power within the Maximo Exercitus Imperium to begin re-deploying soldiers around the capital of Jerusalem, personally hand-picking a squad of marines to join him in the takeover of the city. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Marisa Belacqua attempted to covertly acquire the support of leading Clergy members, including Julios Cragen and Nicholas Azure, with the assistance of Inquisitor Justas Kolas who hid the evidence of meetings between key officals in order to keep their existance secret. On January 3, 2036, the forces of the Holy Clergy and the Magisterium began their coup d'état against Imperator Anton Ujung, with armed forces of the Maximo Exercitus Imperium seizing control of major facilities across the capital controlled by the Praesidium of the Bovido Imperium, managing to gain power within the city in the space of hours; by 6pm GMT, the coup forces claimed control of the palace and Imperator Anton Ujung was arrested by members of the Magisterium before being stripped of his titles by a unanimous vote of a self-appointed Grand Council consiting of Cardinal Julios Cragen, Prime Ministers Marisa Belacqua and Torrent Koon and Minister Nicholas Azure. With Ujung deposed, Cardinal Cragen took over the *de-jure* powers of the Bovido throne, being crowned as Bovido Imperator on January 4, 2036 in an elaborate ceremony in front of the Praesidium, Clergy, Magisterium and Maximo Exercitus in the Jerusalem palace, formally ending the coup with the selection of a new leader. On January 5, 2036, Anton Ujung was executed for war crimes and Imperator Julios Cragen began to open peace talks with the Libirachi Empire.