Aj Ud

Aj Ud
nationality Ariddian job head of state title Prime Secretary age 84

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. With his ninth term due to end in 2119, Ud announced in 2118 that he would not seek re-election.