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Welcome to Shear Anarchy!

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Hello reader! Welcome to Shear Anarchy, a project by Shady and myself which really doesn't have much to do with sci-fi but strives to be awesome regardless.

The setting is Vlasenica, a large second-world country. God-president Aleksandar Radojević, dictator of some twenty years, has just been assassinated and his executioner, erstwhile businesswoman Jelena Kežman, herself a former Radojević collaborator until she realized the despot was conspiring to have her killed, finds herself thrust into the unenviable position of being his successor.

The problems are myriad, and internal as much as external. Kežman is a would-be democratic reformer, but within the country the position of the new president is threatened by the Radojević Old Guard that is still powerful within the state apparatus; former generals turned warlord-profiteer; communist partisans and groups of rebel outlaws sponsored by wealthy external backers or former rival oligarchs; the foreign mercenaries Kežman once relied upon to protect her businesses may not be as well suited to the job of official peace enforcers, or may even be conspiring to take control of the country themselves... And that is just the domestic problems. From beyond the borders, wealthy multinationals and powerful nations alike look towards the natural resources of Vlasenica with envious eyes.

It will be up to the newfangled president to try and strike a balance between all these competing groups in an ultimate attempt to lift her country out of poverty, prevent a civil war, and avoid a fate as sudden and gruesome as that of her predecessor...
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For, now De Ruyter's topsails
Off naked Chatham show,
We dare not meet him with our fleet -
And this the Dutchmen know!
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