The Ominous Cabal of Patrician Statesmen is a conservative political party in the Commonwealth of Rutania. It was founded by Geoffrey Moran, who is now the party's grandmaster. Prior to the party's creation, Rutanian politics was chiefly a push-and-pull of power between left-wingers and libertarians. Conservative and elitist opinion was rarely expressed, and, consequently, the people who held such opinions were not represented in Parliament. Indignant of the lack of power of the patrician class, which is the wealthiest and best educated of all classes, Moran and a few other like-minded colleagues swore to fight for their rights in Parliament.