Order Restored (Almost)3 February, 3120The people of Saridan have been freed from the tyranny of the Nameless Party and with the help of Kafuristan and Al'Badara, new leaders have been installed in the mainland. The mission of establishing a new government for Saridan was entrusted to the Aristocratic Ruralist Union, a party consisting of anti-NP civil war veterans, farmers and other land owners (before the NP regime stole their property), loyal Catholics and more or less traditionalistic intellectuals. The Socialist Party of Saridan has also been recognized as a legal party.
The new government describes the war as the most devastating is Saridani history. More than a fifth of the population died in battle, by bombings, or by disease and starvation as a consequence of the the actions of the Nameless Party, and many people are still dying in the horrid aftermath. All the major cities have been severely damaged by artillery fire and air bombings - two thirds of Golemia have turned into rubble. Saridani industry lies in ruins.
The only part of Saridan that remains relatively intact is the countryside, but even there the people are suffering.
The ARU government has been quick to overturn the worst excesses of the totalitarian regime. Returners of the old theocratic regime has helped restore some of the pre-totalitarian institutions such as the courts; the child brainwashing institutions and the "breedellos" have been removed, and the government has done its best to bring the kidnapped children back to their families; religion has again been legalized and the Saridani Catholic Church reestablished as the state church; and an elective monarchy has been established with Erique Leo choosen by the ARU as the first to bear the title King Elected.
The Aristocratic Ruralist Union describes itself as a radical conservative, elitist, agrarian and corporatist party. They are vehemently traditionalist and anti-modern, and state in their 12 Point Programme that "nature and the countryside are superior to urbanites" and that we should "keep heavy industry on a short leash and restricted to certain areas". They acknowledge the irony that the war actually advanced some of their goals, since they think "that the human population is shrinking is to be celebrated".
As the name suggests, the ARU is sceptical of democracy - or "mob-rule" as they prefer to call it - and wishes to "establish aristocracy - rule by the best".