* BACKGROUND / SIDE CHARACTER * Mateo Vukusti

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Name: Mateo Vukusti
   
Traits and Political Views:

- Socially Conservative, Economically Liberal
Mateo is a modern day Conservative. He aligned with the Liberals before Farun independence, however following the fall of the empire and the establishment of the republic, he found himself content with the status-quo and feigns progressivism.

- Meek, unlike his uncle, people, schemes and crowds are not Mateo's forte. He rather stay out of the bigger picture and live his comfortable life as an editor at the Industrialist.

- Farun, Mateo is born to two Farun parents in Kroletfaru. He has seldom left the region save for his military service studies in journalism at the University of Glorbitz.

- Faintly Religious, he was raised Cubeaist and holds religious values, but only goes to church on holidays.

Some goals:

Promote a moderate-conservative point of view in public discourse.
Keep his comfy job at the Industrialist editorial board.

Background:

Mateo was born in the year of our lords 1899 to a kroletfarun middle class family to Stefan and Gironetta Vukusti. Growing up he worked at his father's general goods store, and saved up money for a university tuition in the great imperial capital.

He became military aged in 1916, and served two years in the Slorbo-Glormorian army as a junior officer (thanks to his Uncle's aristocratic connections). After his service was over, he went to the university of Glorbitz, and witnessed the fall of the empire as he was studying journalism. Despite his service in the military, he half-heartedly saw himself as an anti-imperial liberal, aligning with his Farun friends at the university who were massive fans of the great General Infaru.

Mateo graduated with honors in 1922, and returned to the now burgeoning Republic of Faru to start a career in journalism.

Luckily for him his uncle, Maon Vukusti, was one of the patrons of one of the nation's biggest newspapers, the Industrialist. He put in a good word with the owner of the paper which led him to quickly rise the ranks of the company despite his lack of experience.

During this time, he moderated his views and became more conservative, as the liberal movement completely fell apart and gave way to a more conservative political landscape. By 1924, he joined the Liberal-Conservative party, and has voted for them in most elections. 

Since 1925 he has sat on the board of editors and has been editing and writing news articles for the industrialist, something he has been very happy to do, and will likely never stop doing unless he is forced to do so.