Pro Tect

Pro Tect, a nicknamed adopted by Richard Perston-Oates, was the de facto president for life of South Arlesbury between December 1 1980 and December 4 1989.

History

Richard was born on June 19, 1921.

In 1979, he adopted the name Pro Tect, after the committee he founded, the PROTECT Committee.

On December 1, 1980, Pro Tect became the de facto president of South Arlesbury, having won the Crystal Night. Four days later, his team killed the North Arlesburian prime-minister and nine years of hatred between the two countries began.

PROTECT Committee

The PROTECT committee was created in 1979, but wasn't publicly mentioned until the Crystal Night.

Bans for women

Under the PROTECT Committee, women had to be veiled, and always in black. The ban was lifted in 1986. Schooling was denied, but was lifted in 1981, but with restrictions. Other bans included:

• Driving any kind of vehicle (lifted in 1989)

Bans for both genders

• Music with instruments (lifted in February 1982)
• Toys that resembled a living thing (lifted in 1984)
• Drawings that resembled humans (lifted in 1981)
• Drinking alcohol
• Celebrating national holidays
• Celebrating Easter and Christmas
• Gambling (ban kept after his death, ban lifted in 1993)
• Statues
• Adoption
• Eating regular foods (later reduced to eating healthy foods)
• Decadent clothing (including jeans and T-shirts)
• Decadent music
• Discuss politics
• Opposition against Pro Tect
• State or imply that Pro Tect is fraudulent

Assassination

Pro Tect was assassinated on December 4, 1989.

In popular culture

Protective Retaliation is an alternate history television series produced by South Arlesburian and North Arlesburian companies set in an alternate reality where Pro Tect was never assassinated and eventually takes up most of Eurectipheria as a "new Hitler".