Aj Ud

Aj Ud is the current leader of the People’s Democratic Social Republic of Ariddia. He is a member of the long-ruling Democratic Communist Party. He was first elected in 2074, and is now serving his ninth consecutive five-year term.

Ud, an Indigenous Ariddian, is an elderly man with paling grey hair, and a calm, dignified expression on his wrinkled, pale-brown face.

It was under Ud’s presidency that Ariddia cemented peaceful relations with West Ariddia and further opened up to the world, signing a number of international treaties. Ud is renowned as a peaceful, rational, principled man. In his youth, he was a student in philosophy and literature (primarily at the University of Rêvane), and travelled abroad as much as he could afford to; he is also multilingual.

In 2110, Ud was hospitalised after a mild heart attack, and Nuriyah Khadhim was appointed as temporary head of State in his place. In 2114, he was re-elected at the age of 82, despite worsening health, but most of the head of State's fuctions are now exercised by Khadhim.