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Manak Cuzi

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Manak Cuzi
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Manak Cuzi in 1944
Equiveprim of Hardhiara
In office
4 September 1949 – 12 September 1991
Succeeded byMavik Cuzi
Viceroy of Hardhiara
In office
20 June 1949 – 4 September 1949
Preceded byRuçi Tanush
Succeeded byMavik Cuzi
Chancellor of Hardhiara
In office
8 March 1944 – 4 September 1949
Preceded byAmaçi Sipek
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Personal details
Born(1898-10-21)21 October 1898
Durvan, Hardhiara
Died4 September 1991(1991-09-04) (aged 92)
Kujkë, Hardhiara
Cause of deathHeart attack
Resting placeAfër Qiellit Mausoleum, Hardhiara
ChildrenMavik Cuzi
Parent(s)Svo Arabak
Altanna Sipya
Profession
  • General
  • Politician
  • Monarch
Military service
AllegianceHardhiara Hardhiara
Branch/serviceEquiveprimya Military
Years of service1916 - 1944
RankGeneral
Unit4rth Army
Battles/warsContinental War
Occupation of Hilmabreget

Manak Cuzi was an Hardhi military officer and then politician who ascended to the throne during the Glorious Regeneration, of which he had been the main architect. He ruled Hardhiara as its Equiveprim from 1949 until his death of old age in 1991 after 42 years of reign. He has since then been given the posthumous title of "Eternal Equiveprim" as the cult of personality surrounding him continue to this day. His long rule was characterized by dictatorial practices and reactionary policies that reversed most of the reforms and modifications brought by his predecessors. He notably brought back the Decimal Administration, nationalized most of the country's industrial sectors, enacted country-wide land reforms, led the rapid industrialization of the country through the use of economic planning, and ended democracy.

His "Regeneration" aimed at reverting back what he had seen as the "Systematic Weakening of the State's Institutions and Organs" by recreating and modernizing the "traditional" Hardhi system of rulership. He ended all democratic institutions, closed the Chambers of commerce, and took direct control over the economy. His bureaucratic approach to central planning was mitigated by the relative decentralization of said planning, with Regional and Provincial Governors being left to plan their own programs as long as they matched central directives.

Dissidents and opponents to his rule were systematically purged by his secret police, and his government also practiced deportations, forced relocalisations of communities judged to be "potential threats to National Security", and forced labour. Most markets that had managed to appear since the beginning of the century were closed, replaced by a modernized "Magazinet" distributin rations of foods, clothes, and tools to the populations.

At the international, Manak Cuzi became a close ally of Gerrit Hartnell and he signed with the Foresitter the Kujkë Agreement in 1955, a treaty that would be transformed the same year into the Mageiros League.

After his death, Manak Cuzi's body was enshrined at the Afër Qiellit Mausoleum, near Rihap. To this day, his mummified body continue to attract visitors on what has become a state sponsored pilgrimage and it his often publicly displayed during important events. All newly appointed Ministers and Regional Governors have to travel to the Mausoleum to take the oath to the Nation and the Equiveprim over the Hardhiaran Flag, while under the watch of Manak Cuzi.