Eva I of Suverina

Eva
Queen Eva in 2018.
Predecessor	Archduke Michail II
Born	(1975-01-05) 5 January 1975 Cahul, Queendom of Suverina
Full name Eva Madalina Alexandreina Cuza
House	House of Cuza
Father	Ion Cuza
Mother	Lucia Cuza (née Geórgios)
Religion	Orthodox Christian Church of Suverina

Monarch of Suverina
Coat of arms of House Cuza
Incumbent
Eva I of Suverina
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Style	Her Majesty, Eva the first, by the Grace of God, of Suverina, Qirim, the Raga Sea and the Suverin Dominions Queen, Defender of the Church

Eva Madalina Alexandreina Cuza (born 5 January 1975) is the Queen of Suverina. She was the second child of Ion and Lucia Cuza. She and her family were distant relatives to the royal family, hence she carried the royal name of House Cuza. Not only that, but she was mainly brought up in the family's manorial estate outside Cahul. An estate which was considered extremely modest for someone belonging to the royal house. As a member of the royal house, her father was obliged to be present at court for certain periods of time, so the family spent periods living at the royal palace in Chișinău.

Early life

When Eva grew up, the old regime was still in power. The country's democratic system was a sham and the country was virtually a dictatorship. Corruption was rampant, the opposition was oppressed, and the government only managed to stay in power because of the military. A small elite was very rich, and the masses were poor. Eva's father was viewed as somewhat of a radical as he supported certain ideas of reform, and he had brought up Eva, giving her the knowledge that she was privileged, one of the lucky few.

Such an upbringing allowed Eva to receive awareness of the inequalities and injustices of society already at a young age, which would help form her political view and make her into a believer in Socialism. A very similar path to the one that her cousin and predecessor to the throne, Michail II, chose while growing up. She came to resent her relative, the archduke, his whole government, and the corruption for which it stood. Voices started to speak up for a revolution in Suverina. And at the age of 14, Eva became one of those voices. It was her older cousin Michail that recruited her to the Suverin Socialist Worker's Party, and she secretly became a member.

Political involvement

In 1989 there started going rumours about a young “revolutionary princess”, but the young Eva, then 15, wasn't a princess and was a rather distant relative of the Archduke, so no real suspicion fell on her. But it was that year that Eva at great risk would start taking actions of her own. With a little help she managed to start taking food supplies from the royal palace which the Suverin Socialist Worker's Party then distributed to the poor. Due to the rampant corruption, few noticed the soon massive amounts of supplies unaccounted for, and a few bribes kept the few people who knew quiet. The military intelligence for long held foreign supporters responsible for bringing food to the hungry masses of Chișinău. Little did anyone expected that one of the most dangerous enemies from within would be a young girl.

In the early months of 1990 the political situation in the country had become increasingly instable. The country's economic situation was worsening and corruption grew, which had increased dissent amongst the populace to an all-time high. The organised resistance grew, primarily organised by the Suverin Socialist Worker's Party, which was rapidly growing in popularity.

1990 was the year of the Suverin revolution, which saw the downfall of the Archduke and the corrupt government, as well as the transformation to democracy. 1990 was an election year, with the election scheduled to take place in August. But a lot of things had changed in Suverina since the last election in 1985. The Suverin economy had experienced a depression ever since 1987, with GDP decreasing by 12% since 1985. Inflation had increased by 230% and unemployment had increased from 14% to 29% in the same period. Foreign governments and organisations frequently listed Suverina amongst the most corrupt countries in the region.

On January 7, the only remaining legal opposition party, Suverin Agrarian Party, announced that they, in protest against the inability of the government to address the many problems plaguing the country, would resign from their seats in parliament and boycott the parliamentary establishment. On January 27 in Cluy-Napoca, a region of Transylvania, the Suverin Socialist Worker's Party held their 14th underground party convention. Eva, recently turned 16, was one of fourteen representatives from the Chișinău region, and the youngest delegate at the convention.

The Suverin Socialist Worker's Party made several changes to the party platform in order to broaden its appeal to the public. Based on the new platform, the party adopted the legendary “50 principles for the transformation of Suverina” manifest. Some important changes to the party platform were:

• The abandonment of the principle to transform the monarchy into a republic and allow for a constitutional monarchy until a public referendum would settle the monarchy/republic question.
• A new economic policy that would allow some private ownership and dividing the rest between state and social ownership, instead of the former policy of total state ownership.
• Adoption of the principle that the transformed Suverina should be a parliamentarian democracy, and thereby abandoning the notion that all power should be organised by worker's councils.
• Formalising the revolutionary councils within each district of the nation and confirming the goal that a revolution was to take place as soon as possible and to have taken place before the end of 1992.
• The notion that the Party would open up to join a broad coalition of opposition organisations from across the entire political spectrum in order to achieve the revolution was accepted.

Eva's cousin, Comrade Michail Cuza, party secretary in the district of Chișinău and member of the royal family, was designated to succeed the Archduke on the throne until the monarchy question could be settled. Eva didn't know it then, but this decision paved the way for her to one day inherit the throne.

Underground channels quickly began printing and distributing the “50 principles for the transformation of Suverina” manifest. Eva organised for an old printing press belonging to the government's daily newspaper to be smuggled out of storage. The printing press was taken to a Party locale to be assembled in order to help print the manifest in sufficient numbers. Despite the manifest being illegal, it was quickly distributed amongst the people of Suverina. Most historians agree that the new manifest was instrumental into allowing the Suverin Socialist Worker's Party to assume the leadership rule of the Suverin underground opposition.

On February 19 the government forbade all unauthorised gatherings of more than three people. On February 26 the Christian-democratic Union and Movement for Justice and Security resigned from the government, leaving the Party for Law and Order of the Motherland as the only governing party. The Party for Law and Order of the Motherland was supported by the Archduke and military, and nominally had 70% of the seats of parliament. But given that the democratic system was a sham, the real popular support of the government was only a fraction of that.

On March 1, a nationwide strike was declared. By March 2 the government declared the strike illegal and gave the worker's three days to return to work. On March 5 the strike was still ongoing as the government declared martial law and sent the military and the national guard to deal with the strike.

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