# meta ideas at hte start the governemnt and corps are realing fromt he recent violence unionization of [[Novovladykino Industrialial Workers]]. This event has shocked and united the elite classses against the poor. However, the conservatives are skillfully playing the populists to play their anti-elite tendencies directed towards teh aristocracy. the hope is to divide both parties into destroying each other. The lords will back the conservatives in pushing down the workers adn the ravagers. While the populists will back the conservatives in targetting aristocratic privilege and capitalist profits (whom the conservatives target if they hurt the conservatives oligarchical allies). --- The populists want to drive workers revolutions and dismantle the aristocratic government and will advance things towards this end. For them, the goal is to construct a defintion of enemy which places the peopel as the ritous and the elites as tyranical terrorists stealing fromt he people and terrorizing them for hteir own gains. They want the ravagers as a positive and see unions as a way to take power away from the aristocracy, the traders, and the capistlists who they see as the power holders in society. --- the aristcoracy want their privielegs restored, the workers put down, and the oligarchy reintregrated into the aristocracy. They are not necessarily anti-conservaive. They would like to restore the old alliance, but find the current brand of populist-conservatives too hard ot work with. Some may say they are fools, waiting to be taken down. --- behind everything, including sending the baron away and getting the count to send someone else to take over the control position is the disgraced versian noble Marcus Julius Mendax who fled to this place and is now trying to regain some semblence of power. he is behind the scenes manipulating things to fall into place so that once the opening is right he can exploit it and take control.