Cei Credincioși

The Cei Credincioși ("The Believers"), often shortened to "the Credință", is a political organisation that possesses a quasi-legal status in Caradia, and is centered in the Caradian city of Chivalho that is highly contrary to traditional conservative Caradian politics, advocating for more international involvement, the dissolution of the Caradian Coal Company, and democratisation of the Caradian government, including changing the Ducal Council to become an elected senate. The organisation is somewhat big tent in its general advocacy for change in Caradian politics, but tends to stay roughly socio-economically center.

The organisation was organised in late 1681 AN in opposition to the Xenoclasts that had risen just before, which advocate for a return to isolationism and a general militancy against foreign influence. The Credință is self-admittedly heavily influenced by Ciric politics, which its members were exposed to following the creation of the Union Australis. It remains more hidden than the Xenoclasts due to its status as a quasi-legal organisation, which it has because of Caradia's laws forbidding the formation of political parties. Xenoclasm enjoys certain favoritism from lawmakers in this regard as it counts many administrators amongst its members. Intriguingly, both groups have a certain aversion to the authority of the King, the Xenoclasts paradoxically so as they simultaneously propagate the belief of the divinity and infallibility of the King and espouse that the worst administrative decision in the history of the country was Duke Alecsi XVI's decision to end the country's isolation. King-Saint Godrîc XI has yet to make a judgment on the groups either, in spite of all of the major political and religious administrators taking the side of the Xenoclasts expecting the King to do the same.

Demographics-wise, the Credință appeals to poorer labourers and less well-off peoples, which results in a lack of political influence due to the institutionalised classism instated in the Duchy. Major media outlets also side with the Xenoclasts, which produce propaganda issues for the Credință. Its leader is Alina Palovescu, who was previously an inquisitor of the Flemic Inquisition, but broke off when she joined the Credință and formed a splinter group of the Church of the Black Flame, which is more moderate in its beliefs and has been declared heretical by major church leaders.