Magerius Ukumari

Magerius Ukumari, also known as Marshal Magerius or MageriusYT, is the 16th and incumbent General Secretary of the United Socialist States of Eldham. He is currently serving his third term, being elected on June 20th, 2023, and inaugurated on July 16th in Akaishiro.

Kingdom of Magiatica
Magerius was born in a coastal town of Kingdom of Magiatica as the youngest of three brothers of the Ukumari family, all of them being the founders due to them not knowing of their deceased parents until a very late age. His older siblings are: Jus and Wntryi Ukumari.

Due to difficulties in finding proper employment the Ukumari brothers decided to enroll in the Royal Navy as it also offered many future career opportunities. And they were all assigned together to the Navy's flagship Rockmount and fought in the Magiatic-Chaibrawen war. As the war saw the defeat of Magiatica, King Gaki XVI abdicated the throne in favour of his only son, who became Kharmiir VIII. The rule of Kharmir quickly led to further instability in Magiatica as he appointed one of his Aristocrats to the position of Prime Minister and dissolved the Royal Parliament, and began a purge of the Military Ranks.

Soon after the beginning of the purges; elements of the Army rebelled while the Navy officially remained neutral, although behind the scenes this proved false as the officers of the Rockmount plotted to join the rebellion. And this plan came to fruition in what has become known as the "Rockmount Rebellion".

In order to show to the people that the Navy remained loyal to the King: the Prime Minister arrived to the Rockmount only to be taken hostage by the crew which demanded simply the end of the military purges. This strategy ended up ineffective as Loyalist Army and Naval forces encroached on the Rockmount and fighting started even with the Prime Minister still being alive. Having understood that there is no victory for them in Magiatica, the crew of the Rockmount (including the Ukumaris) all voted to escape the country and find a new home, thus they did.

The escape of the Rockmount from Magiatica saw the destruction of 12 loyalist ships in what is seen as proof of the legendary ship's might. And it would travel the seas for three months before finally arriving to the sub-continent Serrona of Eldham, where the Ukumari brothers led the establishment of the now famous city of Akaishiro (The City at the Red River) with the first houses and roads being built by the remnants of the Rockmount.

Magerius was elected the first leader of Akaishiro and him, and his brothers, proved to be efficient leaders who led the town to rapid expansion. Some time after the founding of the city the inhabitants of Akaishiro made contact with the local Mari people and the United Socialist States of Eldham, which ended up flipping Magerius' life even more upside down. As a former citizen of a tyrannical monarchy; the USSE's principles of egalitarianism and democracy were incredibly attractive to Magerius and his people, all of whom quickly also adopted the Mari traditions and adopted the Socialist ideology upon becoming citizens of the USSE.

Great Marshal of the USSE
Finally seeing more purpose in his military experience; Magerius chose to get a job in the Armed Forces of the USSE and to assist in building them up, later becoming Commissioner of Security on December 23rd, 2022 under General Secretary Yonathain Davidovich. His skills were also used politically when he became Mayor and later Governor of Medtremar as he worked to support the region in gaining more influence. During his time in these offices he worked in crushing the Adalorian Secession and Imperialist movement with the assistance of his brother Lead Ukumari, who in the end managed to reintegrate the Adalorians into the USSE. And his term as Commissioner was marked by increased activity for the Military Command and constant recruitment to the army.

Magerius' first major success as Marshal of the Army was when he assisted Xeroists in overthrowing the Noskyé Government which was attempting to establish a Monarchy, thus instead establishing the People's Socialist Republic of Noskyé (now known as the Socialist Maritime Union of Noskyé). Magerius' assistance came in the form of directly leading troops into the Noskyé capital of Kirizny to fight alongside the Xeroist rebels, and following the collapse of the old Government he apparently also led successful operations in preventing terror attacks by the monarchist forces. Noskyé today remains an Independent Socialist state in the northern coast of Serrona.

Trinkets War
Having come 2nd place to Emma T. Brewtaker in the January election for General Secretary, Magerius continued in the position of Marshal of the People's Army. By then Magerius was already well-established in his position but had yet to lead the USSE in an all-out war, that is until a certain group of squatters founded the nation of Trinkets in a small island in the Haxhoit sea. And, following some illegal incursions into USSE cities such as Sanguinople which saw the murder of a citizen and a failed ultimatum demanding four million in coin or land, the Trinkets declared war on the USSE. Together with this some Paragonites, who were reportedly linked to the trinkets, attempted to get the USSE to fold for a "ridiculous amount of money or land". Offers which were met with fierce refusals from the General Secretary.

Upon the declaration of war General Secretary Brewtaker announced a national state of emergency and ordered the mobilization of the army and the workforce to grind in the mines and fund the national war effort, the day after introducing production quotas of 5 thousand's worth of coin a day, in what she declared to be "another Great Patriotic War". Being the Marshal, Magerius immediately went to work, leading the construction of the fortress Chernovosk.

New Gehenna Crisis
Magerius was elected on June 20th to return to the post of General Secretary; this time being fully ready to serve out his full term. On July 18th the Magerius Government announced the "Revival of New Gehenna" in the old city of Gehenazar in an attempt to create another hub to assist the growth of the USSE's economy thanks to its great set up of farms. Six hours later a member of the old guard, Chel, announced also the reclamation of the ancient capital of Vostroya in a historical moment for the nation with Magerius later stating that another objective of New Gehenna is to create a major line of defense for Vostroya.

Within a day it would be found out that the Government's strategy for going through with the New Gehenna project was highly controversial; PSB Agents were ordered to loot inactive houses and bring it all back to a storage so as to stockpile resources for the newer construction projects. Alongside this his Government chose to begin restricting the size of newly constructed houses because of a clear housing disparity in the nation which saw some living in Villas when others were forced to live in basements. But this proved incredibly unpopular with the citizens of the Vostroya region, who reacted to these measures by calling strikes and attacked Magerius by calling him a "Revisionist" and a "Liberal" and wishing for the "restoration of town democracy".

Literally the day after the beginning of the revival of New Gehenna; Magerius responded to this by stating his position that he believes nothing of what he did was unjust or unconstitutional, and blamed the claim owner Maggie for making some mistakes such as previously selling the land to Manzland and also allowing several non-USSE citizens into the claim not long after getting it, also quoting the party line proposed by her which showed a clear support for his actions. He called the strikes "reactionary" and that instead invited the strikers to speak with him personally to solve the problem.

On the third day of the crisis, June 20th, the Vostroya and Gehenna Worker's strikes ended following successful push for the "Referendum on the Defining of Illegal Seizure, Rights of Mayoral Councils, and Rights of Mayors" which addressed the striker's concern about the protection of town democracy and autonomy, and also successful negotiations between the PSB, the Government, and the Strikers.

Cabinet Reshuffle
The same day as the response came out; Magerius' Deputy, Emma T. Brewtaker, resigned. A day later he appointed former Commissioner of Industry "Lead" as his new deputy, with him being replaced by Partisan Chair and Ex-General Secretary Rosa Ortangon because of her experience and dedication to the ongoing economic reforms in the USSE. Together with this he declared the introduction of bi-weekly government meetings available to the public eye in his efforts to make the Government appear more transparent and to grant the people further participation in governance.

In the night between July 20th and July 21st Magerius signed the "Janitorial Cleanup Act" proposed by Representative Arika Ronango'O and which passed with six of the eight representatives voting in favour. The JCA abolished sections or full parts of the Socialist Mayoral Establish Act, the Trans USSE Flag Icon Act, the Sun Set Clause for all Legalization Act and the Discord Mention Regulation and Notify Role Bill.

Upon his election to his Fourth term; Magerius almost completely reshuffled his cabinet, making up the following commissioners upon its inauguration: Ilon Hutexo as Commissioner of Security, Pakartov Von Kessel as Commissioner of Information, Vyacheslav Von Kessel as Commissioner of Culture, Mr Nothing as Commissioner of Development, Rosa Ortangon continuing as Commissioner of Industry, and Emma T. Brewtaker as Commissioner of Foreign Affairs (although she resigned the same day), with the Commissioner of Security yet to be decided.

Third and Fourth Terms as General Secretary
Possibly in search of legitimacy and garnering further support the Magerius Government began passing a set of new reforms basically back-to-back in the week ahead of the election for the General Secretary; On July 23rd, Magerius announced the reopening of the USSE's subway network thanks to the engineer and PSB agent Jens Kruse, with the network allowing a citizen to travel from Akaishiro to Kazkaya in exactly one minute thus making the $200 fee for fast travel even more worthless and a day later Duckia and Ythmyrr Beach were announced to become the newest parts of the network. The same day, in hopes of increasing gunpowder exports, the Kiripizen fishing pond was opened. And it was declared that the Kiripizen claims were being changed into factory claims, farms were to be expanded, and it was reported that the economy had made ~600,000 in the two weeks prior in proof of success of the USSE's economic reforms.

On July 24th: the Government responded to the Akaishiran Housing Crisis by calling for the citizens across the country to begin donating building materials to the town, to volunteer to assist in construction, and by showing a new zoning map including the "Oldtown Expansion" in the Northern tip, the "Harbor Area" in the North East, the "Blockhousing" Area in the South, and the "Sustainable City" Area in the Western Forests. The Results of this reform are yet to be seen. Together with this; the People's Army and the SMUN finally declared the end of the conflict against the Kirizniyan Monarchists who resided in the artificial island of Hayata. The end of the conflict was peaceful as inactivity led to the claim being calmly taken over by the USSE, but still it became a major victory for the nation.

July 26th also became a major historical date as the long-secretive "Order of the Shaska", founded by the late Chelovek Serbera III, revealed itself and its long-held knowledge of the location of the Serebra tomb, the "Friendship of Endy", and its name-sake; the Shashka sword, one cursed by souls of victims of the Great Serronan War. On this day Magerius claimed the Shashka and announced to the nation: "The recipe for our symbol of national pride. THE SHASHKA. A weapon crafted by the best USSE blacksmiths is the USSE specific custom weapon. With it's attack speed being higher then that of a normal diamond sword it is no match for any other sword used in PvP. After months of work, pain, blood, sweat and tears the genius blacksmith Raistlin Serebra has managed to recreate this blade which shows the skill of our new generation of USSE workers! Glory to the Workers and Blacksmiths of the USSE! Glory to the SHASHKA! May the Counterrevolutionaries bleed because of it once again!"

The reforms, together with Magerius' image of experience and already established popularity, helped him win the General Secretary election of July 28th by a complete landslide; winning 65% of the vote, his second biggest victory. And he started off his term with the first census in two months just ahead of the elections for the Supreme People's Assembly.

Political Ideology
Magerius is a generally normal Xeroist; supporting a centralized economy, a unitarian government, and the upholding of Socialist Democracy. According to him, his only major difference with Xeroism is that he wishes to make the USSE the bastion of Xeroism instead of actively seeking to expand it across the other nations of Eldham. His campaign also supported Constitutionalism and Constitutional reforms; seeking to "enhance the legal clarity, transparency, and democratic values within the USSE." And as with most USSE candidates, he also showed advocacy for a populist style of governing.

As a former Marshal of the USSE, Magerius also seeks out to empower and strengthen the People's Army while keeping a good balance between it and the People's Security Bureau in terms of power. Which may be seen also as an active part of his foreign policy. In terms of which he views the USSE as a nation among nations and seeks to actively cooperate with all major powers, having run on a Pro-Serronan League (now defunct) platform in the June 2023 election, to peacefully expand the USSE's borders, and to build up a strong economy. Seeing all of this together with his policy towards the Military and PSB signifies that his political agenda can be identified under the umbrella term of "Armed Neutrality".

Electoral History

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