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[center][color=#ff0a23][b][h2] Council for the Preservation of Order on Wadi [/h2][/b][/color][/center]

[color=#2e7bf0][b]Government Type:[/b][/color] Wadi has suffered through perhaps the most tumultuous period of its history. Two decades of civil war have wracked the planet, leaving millions dead, and much of the planet's infrastructure in ruins. Shortly after the Al-Sharif Uprising of 952, a cadre of military advisors and the upper brass of the Wadian aristocracy's Old Guard banded together to combat the swelling revolution that had already taken hold in numerous cities across the planet. A decisive betrayal by these military leaders resulted in the death of the Sultan, Safaa El-Mofty, and the end of Wadian feudalism. Twenty-one years of civil war followed, eventually resulting in the military forces and loyalists of the People's Republic of Wadi fleeing into the Pahaad Jabal mountains, where they remain a government in exile.

As such, Wadi currently contains two competing governments: the People's Republic of Wadi, a proletarian dictatorship governed by a general secretary, and a politburo of elected representatives; and the Council for the Preservation of Order, a fascistic military junta governed by a council of generals who advise the "Supreme Commander", a totalitarian dictator who remains in power through sheer force of will, and the indiscriminate use of violence.

[color=#2e7bf0][b]Demographics:[/b][/color] The first colonists to arrive on Wadi primarily originated from Asia Minor, Arabia and the surrounding Arab lands, and the Indian subcontinent, including Pakistan. The culture and ethnography of Wadi broadly reflects these influences, and as such, names, religious and cultural customs, and language present themselves as a mix of these progenitors.

Aliens are generally disliked and distrusted by the people of Wadi, and with the advent of the Council of the Preservation of Order, immigration by non-human and near-human sophonts has been heavily restricted. Those few aliens that do dwell on Wadi tend to live in slums or ghettos, subjected to violence and discrimination, both interpersonal and structural, on a daily basis.

[color=#2e7bf0][b]Economy:[/b][/color] Wadi is a largely barren planet. Its proximity to its star, Vishana, has created an atmosphere that is largely non-conducive to agriculture, and occasionally hazardous to human life. As such, Wadi relies heavily on the import of foodstuffs. Alternatively, Wadi was blessed with ample natural resources, namely large deposits of minerals, including the mysterious and valuable Psionium. The exportation of such resources form the backbone of the Wadian economy, supplemented by a once booming industry, though the recent conflict has resulted in a dramatic decrease in production.

Officially, the Council maintains a planned economy, with the Ministry of Economic Prosperity in control of fixing prices, mandating production quotas, and providing subsidies to industries that are deemed to be of "vital importance to the state". In reality, the state allows industrialists effectively laissez-faire control over their factories, so long as their decisions do not negatively affect the state. Interstellar trade is highly regulated by the Wadian Trading Commission who are responsible for dictating the policy positions of the state's highly protectionist doctrine.

[color=#2e7bf0][b]Military:[/b][/color] The Council for the Preservation of Order's military is divided into three branches, each with its own role on the battlefield.

[hider=Bureau of Social Harmony]The Council's secret police force, the Bureau of Social Harmony is responsible for quashing dissidents, staunching the circulation of anti-government propaganda, and promoting social harmony for the benefit of the state.[/hider]

[hider=Grand Army of Wadi]The Council's ground forces, made up of old veterans who cut their teeth on the blood-soaked battlefields of the civil war, and eager new recruits spurned on by pro-military propaganda.

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[center][i]A common soldier in the GAW.[/i][/center][/hider]

[hider=Wadi Stellar Defense Force]The Council possesses a small and outdated navy composed of a dozen old frigates, and a few dozen strike craft. The modernization and expansion of the Wadian navy is one of the Council's biggest hurdles they will have to face in the coming years if they wish to adequately defend themselves in this troubled region of the sector.[/hider]

[color=#2e7bf0][b]History:[/b][/color] When the fires of revolution were stoked in the Frontier Worlds by the corrupting influence of the ITC, a wind of change swept through the blasted valleys of Wadi. A planet long dominated by petty nobles, and greedy businessmen, the sector-wide revolt against the interests of the interstellar bourgeoisie inspired in the people of Wadi the spirit to break their chains and throw off the yoke of feudal oppression that had suppressed their will for so long. A vanguard of brave workers rose up in the industrial capital of Al-Sharif in December 952, seizing factories, summarily executing industrialists, and burning symbols of the old regime: noble estates, banking institutions, and houses of worship. At the behest of intellectuals and revolutionary activists like Mansur Waqar, an improvised People's Army sprung up, and organized into a fighting force with radical change on their minds.

The swiftness of the uprising took the ruling class by surprise, throwing the upper echelons of Wadian society into chaos. Through a determined will, and the murder of Sultan Safaa El-Mofty, a military junta headed by Supreme Commander Abdullah Ihsan assumed control of what remained of the old regime's territory. He cobbled together an army of loyalists and began a ruthless campaign against the revolutionaries. A twenty-one year period of bloody civil war followed, resulting in the deaths of millions, and the destruction of dozens of cities. Though the conflict was grueling and hard-fought, it was clear that the reactionary forces of the Old Guard had the upper hand.

Fearing the defeat of the revolution, Takir Ahmad, General Secretary of the People's Republic of Wadi, ordered the withdrawl of all revolutionary forces into the Pahaad Jabal mountains. Supreme Commander Kumar, who assumed power after the assassination of Abdullah Ihsan, fearing a prolonged conflict in such unfavorable terrain, halted his pursuit, leaving Ahmad and his band of rebels to starve in the mountains, and turning his attention inward: to rebuilding Wadi.

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[center][color=#ff0a23][b][h2]People's Republic of Wadi[/h2][/b][/color][/center]

[color=#ff0a23][b]The History of the Revolution:[/b][/color] The spark was lit in Al-Sharif on 15 December, 952. A labor protest taking place in the city mutated into a full-scale riot, eventually resulting in the seizure of weapons from a local police garrison. A three week long period of chaos that ended in hundreds of deaths followed, including the execution of many of the city’s bureaucratic and industrial elite. The Al-Sharif Uprising was indicative of a larger movement that had been steadily growing on the planet, primarily in the industrial working class, over the past decade or so. Further uprisings took place over the next year, during which time the thought-leaders of each city’s individual revolt came together to form a unified front. The First Convention of the Proles took place in March, 953, and established the initial framework that would eventually develop into the People’s Republic of Wadi.

It was during that convention that the Wadian People’s Army was organized, the first Worker’s Councils were established, and the People’s Food Commissariat was proclaimed and with it a system of food distribution devised.

The People’s Republic of Wadi further bureaucratized over the following two-decade long period, its primary focus on the war effort. Factories under the control of the PRW were converted for military use, while the civilian economy relied on only the barest of essentials, a necessary sacrifice for the proletarian cause!

In the summer of 961 it became clear that counter-revolutionary forces within the republic were actively working against the state, and to combat this the first of many “Ideological Audits” were begun. These audits were (according to the state), primarily concerned with identifying “reactionaries” and expelling them from the party. In reality, much of the audits were instead targeted at individuals who challenged the emerging party orthodoxy, which had been established by some of the earliest theorists to join the fight, namely comrades Mansur Waqar and Sharifah Kasi Bardakçi. The resulting purges led to such a devastating shake-up among the party leadership, most notably in the People’s Army, that the war effort suffered greatly. The purging of General Al-Mufti is credited as being at least partially responsible for the PRW’s defeat at the Battle of Pazhadi’s Rift, which proved to be the turning point in the Council’s war against the revolutionary forces.

After this defeat, the territory of the PRW shrunk steadily each year as Council forces continued to push back the thinly spread lines of the People’s Army. By early 972 all that remained of the PRW was contained in three cities at the feet of the Pahaad Jabal mountain range. Under threat of complete destruction, General Secretary Takir Ahmad made the decision to take what was left of the Revolution and retreat into the mountains, where they would carry on their struggle for workers liberation in exile.

Leaving behind a small force of martyrs to cover their retreat, an exodus of roughly two-hundred thousand began a long, grueling march into the foothills of the Pahaad Jabal mountains. Initially, Council forces gave pursuit, but were turned back by heavy fighting. Deciding that the terrain was unsuitable for the prolonged fighting that would be necessary to root them out, the Supreme Commander of the Council thought it best to simply starve the revolutionaries out of the mountains. A loose perimeter was established around the area, regular patrols began, and a no-fly zone was put in place.

The current state of the PRW is a delicate one, as political in-fighting threatens to fracture what little of the government apparatus remains. The primary goals of the PRW as it stands now is to establish a steady source of food and materials (most importantly medical supplies and armaments) to sustain the Revolution. All but a handful of the representatives of the politburo died or were captured during the final few years of the war, necessitating a downsizing of the government bureaucracy, and the transition from a proper proletarian dictatorship to what now more accurately resembles an emergency government.

[hider=Wadian People's Army]Their forces broken at the Siege of the Three Cities, what little remained of the WPA fled into the Pahaad Jabal mountains, demoralized and tired after a long, fruitless war effort. The WPA as it stands in the late winter of 972-973 has an active force of less than 12,000 men, with another 1000 or so injured, or otherwise unable to fight. They have access to half-a-dozen artillery guns, ten light tanks, and a small fleet of vehicles, though they currently lack the means of maintaining, or fueling them for any extended period of time.

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[center][i]Standard Wadian People's Army Combat Uniform[/i][/center][/hider]

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[center][color=#1c9618][b][h2]The Sultanate of Wadi[/h2][/b][/color][/center]

[color=#1c9618][b]Wadi Under the Sultan:[/b][/color] The Sultanate of Wadi was the predominant power on the planet from shortly after humans colonized it up to the Wadian Revolution in 952. The Sultanate's rule was a complicated one, marred with political in-fighting, succession crises, and a continual power struggle between the Sultan and his regional governors. The last Sultan, Safaa El-Mofty, was generally regarded as weak ruler. During his time in power he relinquished a significant amount of control over the processes of the state to the military and his governors, and showed little interest in the plight of the working class, both of which would eventually prove fatal, not only for himself, but for the Sultanate as well.

While the Sultan in theory held absolute, autocratic control over nearly every aspect of governance, in reality, most of those powers were delegated to regional governors, or members of the Sultan's council. This was especially true during the reign of Safaa El-Mofty.

[color=#1c9618][b]Church of the Third Son:[/b][/color] The religions of the Old World were brought to Wadi in three distinct forms: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Over the centuries since humanity fled its homeworld, these religions intermingled, and eventually coalesced into a strange, complicated union known as the "Church of the Third Son". Adherents of the faith believe that a new prophet, the "Third Son of God" (the first and second being Jesus and Muhammad respectively), came to Earth just prior to the Day of Judgement, and gave to humanity the key to their salvation: the Arks. It was with this divine knowledge that the scientists of the Old World were able to construct the great generation ships that preserved humanity, and brought them to the land of Eden.

[color=#1c9618][b]The Sultan's Betrayal, and the Last of His Line:[/b][/color] Sultan Safaa El-Mofty died in a hail of gunfire early in the morning of 4 February, 954. His murder was orchestrated by the men who would become his successors: Supreme Commander (then Martial of the Wadian Sultanate) Abdullah Ihsan, and generals Fehim Aslan and Sadiq Jai Amjad. In the chaos that followed that fateful morning, the Sultan’s court eunuch, who had caught wind of the assassination plot the day prior, managed to smuggle the Sultan’s teenage son and sole heir, Viraj El-Mofty III off-world. The rest of the El-Mofty family was slaughtered in the palace, leaving Viraj all that was left of the royal line.

The eunuch, known only as Shahin, took Viraj to Terra Nova, the capital world of the Terran half of the Federated Systems Alliance. There, Viraj presented himself, and requested political asylum, detailing what had happened but a few months prior on Wadi, the specifics of which the Council had attempted to keep secret for as long as possible.

A number of governors within the old regime who escaped capture and trial by the communists, were given positions of power within the dictatorship which eventually conquered the planet. A select few of these governors (particularly those who value tradition, and the legitimacy of government over mere power) still harbor favorable opinions of the old ruling class, and would be willing to support their return to power.

[color=#2e7bf0][b]Characters:[/b][/color]
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[*] Supreme Commander Abdur-Rashid Kumar
[*] General Secretary Takir Ahmad
[*] Sultan Viraj El-Mofty III (Currently in exile)
[*] Private Yusef Qadir
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