Sylvian's World

Sylvian's World was governed by the PPB until a successful campaign organised by Cleovald Dofstez for the world to leave the PPB and become full members of the Focus Protectorate. No world had ever left the PPB before, and the campaign was seen as an amusing novelty, with Dofstez seen as a nobody with rich friends dabbling in matters he didn't understand.

Those in business were very aware of who Cleovald Dofstez was, as working alongside Victor Finch he had proven himself a genius at business with great skill at working with elected and public bodies in creating wealth, renewal and cooperation, and behind the mocking headlines of the puppet press the campaign was winning people over quickly. Before the PPB and the failing government of Sylvian's World knew what was happening, Dofstez had succeeded and the government found themselves out of a job.

They tried every trick in the book to overturn the result but a rapid move to elect a governor to sit in the CoG of the Focus Protectorate saw Dofstez himself nominated and elected completely unopposed in a matter of days. Accession to the Protectorate was complete, and irreversible without another vote, which would certainly fail regardless.

It was done, and businesses freed from crippling regulation began to immediately reap huge benefits, as did every citizen outside of the obsolete ruling elites. At each subsequent election opponents who either secretly, or latterly, openly wanted to rejoin the PPB, were defeated by crushing margins, in spite of very well-funded, dirty, and duplicitous campaigns.

Sylvian's World was the first to separate itself from the sclerotic, bureaucratic juggernaut of the PPB, and in spite of the threat of this possibility now being recognised at the highest levels of the PPB, it was not the last.