Rural Alliance (Sober Thought)

The Rural Alliance is a political party in Sober Thought.

Is a small tent party representing small agricultural owner-operators who are moderate conservatives. As such, its political fortunes and futures are closely entertwined with otherwise very similar big tent Conservative Party. The biggest policy differences are on the perceived need for greater provincial autonomy and the importance of agriculture, and the biggest demographic difference is the rural base. Either or both of these factors were to become weaker or insignificant, the continued existence of the Alliance as a separate party would be in jeopardy.

It is also broadly similary to the extremist Christian Unity Party. However, since both party's representation hovers around 10 seats in the House of the Federation, there seems little point in forming closer political ties on an institutional basis.

When the Conservatives lure the Alliance into a government coalition, the RA neither seeks nor accepts more than a few vice ministries in the Ministry of Community Connections and an assurance that some of the ties that bind provinces to the federal government are loosened.