Archive:Savasu Voochu

Sáryā Vṓcu nāta Savásu
Savasu Voochu in 1923
Born	(1884-03-06)March 6, 1884
Died	July 12, 1968(1968-07-12) (aged 84)

Savasu Voochu, also known as simply Savasu or by his initials, SVNS, was the Cananganamese Prime Minister of Cananganam from 1924 until his death in 1968. He is posthumously known as Mihana Aggha meaning "Big brother/uncle" in Cananganamese. Before becoming Prime Minister of Cananganam, he was a successful businessman noted for reclaiming Cananganamese banana plantations away from foreign businesses through shrewd trade dealings. Considered as a Father of the Nation for modern Cananganam, his iconography appears frequently in Cananganamese culture. After his third re-election, he was officially made Imperial Regent, a role that had remained vacation since 1814.

Early Life

Savasu was born in Daktuva to his single mother, Yisah Voochu, who was a lector for several workers' unions. He received no formal education as schooling institutions were still significantly behind much of the industrial world, though he did learn how to write and read from his mother. His mother was a supporter of early workers rights movements and most of the works she'd read were left-leaning articles meant to inspire change within the workplace. As a result of this, however, when unions were cracked down upon in the late 1890s his mother was killed in 1898 during a protest that had drawn military involvement as it spread throughout the captal. While having this resentment, he had agreed with his mother in believing in Kutuhtree Dachee; peaceful revolution.

Businessman

As his mother was killed when he was only 15 years old and with no other family in his life, he was left to live on the streets of Daktuva taking whatever jobs he could acquire. This experience gave him knowledge on business practices and with being literate, he had a larger advantage than most of the homeless in the city. By the age of 17 he had finally started his own business as a melon seller in the city's market before branching out to other businesses. Once he had acquired enough funds, he founded his first permanent business, N.Harsmee plantations in which he focused primarily on revolutionizing Cananganamese agriculture through balancing traditional and modern methods of farming. This garnered him much respect within the city's outskirts as many of those who were unemployed enjoyed working with his business as his practices were fair, a rarity in a time of political turmoil throughout the region.

As his business expanded, he became one of the wealthiest men in Cananganam, and took a personal tour of several countries outside of Nagu in 1918; most notably Cerman, Qonklaks, and Vosan. In these countries, he met several leading members of society and learned more about the world situation outside of Nagu. When he returned to Cananganam in 1919, he found the country on the brink of civil war, where he decided he would begin to enter politics. In the 1920, he was selected to be Secretary of State by the then Prime Minister Dirte Luma. He was selected for being a pro-workers' rights figure in Cananganam, as a mean to reduce the Kuulist movement's tensions with the Imperial state. Savasu, being a religious man but also a supporter of social policies, made him popular with much of the country. Prime Minister Luma, growing skeptical of Savasu's support throughout the country, demoted him in early 1922 and threatened to arrest him should he attempt to participate in any political matters.

Prime Minister of Cananganam

Savasu was almost finished with preparing to move his business abroad to Vosan in 1924 when news of Prime Minister Luma's death spread like wildfire. While the civil war had been raging for near two years by this point, the leader of the reactionary faction suddenly being assassinated demoralized many of the UNFK units on the frontline of the conflict. The UNFK, in disarray, invited Savasu Voochu back to the capital to be sworn in as Prime Minister of Cananganam and a pardon of the previous crimes illegally allotted to him by Luma. The situation Cananganam was in was dire, as Vosan businessmen had their plantations nationalized, resulting in the power dedicating an entire division to invading the country later in the year. Savasu immediately made efforts to gain foreign support while re-organizing the military from the top down.

After many months of fighting and obtaining foreign arms shipments for the country, government forces managed to repel the Kuulists from the coastal cities while forcing Vosan forces to remain in the capital of Daktuva. Eventually in 1927, Savasu managed to negotiate a settlement with Vosan where companies who had lost land in Cananganam were to be reimbursed over a period of ten years at a rate of 40R per acre per year. With Daktuva back in governmental hands, Savasu began to seek peace terms with the Kuulist parties which had fragmented over disagreements with Vosan's intervention as well as growing Kuulist movements in Mujansa. As a result, the main parties sought an agreement with Savasu's government where upon Kuulists would be permitted to partake in politics again and improvements of worker's rights on the condition that arms would be returned to their respective barracks in exchange for a full pardon for members on both sides of the conflict. This did not please more extremist elements and the civil war would not officially end until 1942.

Much of Savasu's reign as prime minster, and later as imperial regent from 1947 onward, saw a change in Cananganam's society as it became much more progressive than before. New economic laws based on the Balakian methods were developed, while efforts were made to modernize some aspects of Cananganam's infrastructure, such as introducing asphalt roads as well as some of the first suspension bridges in Daktuva. These reforms transformed much of Cananganam's admixture of traditional lifestyles with that of modern industrialism, changing much of the landscape of the country and improving the lives of many of its citizens. In addition, mandates to drain swamps near settlements resulted in new farmland for many farmers and their families to benefit from, while reducing the extent to which malaria had spread. As a result, many of the Kuulist party members started to support the government as many of the party's foundation were in rural parts of Cananganam neglected by Luma's government. Efforts to improve literacy among both men and women also resulted in a small boom in the technological sectors, with the new schooling systems creating a generation of scientists, engineers, and scholars.

During the Great Ekuosian War, Cananganam was pressured to join a side but managed to resist both Unitarian and Allied attempts to sway Cananganam to their side, fearing yet another significant defeat that would result in the loss of Cananganam's oversea islands, a significant part of the country's economy as they allowed Cananganam to legally and within logistical ability fishing throughout much of the Asura ocean. This avoidance from the war benefited the country as the war turned out to be costly for both sides, with Cananganam taking advantage of this to temporarily boost its economy in sectors once destroyed by the war abroad.

Personal Life

Savasu Voochu was always a strict adherent of the Turesist faith and instilled it into many members of his family. Believing in it for his successes, he would always attribute faith as a key part of any form of success. He married Sruraha hut Titsa in 1903 with whom they had six children. His youngest child, Savasu Ekha, would pass away in 1964 from cancer, resulting in his grandson Savasu Gheeda to become the heir apparent. Savasu Voochu passed away in the morning of July 12, 1968 in his sleep, where he was succeed as Imperial Regent by his grandson Gheeda. Much of his businesses that he owned in his early life were at this point run by stockholders, resulting in his grandson inheriting the yearly 82000R pension originally allotted to Voochu.