The Royal Crown Alliance traces its roots to the Tory Party, which was founded in 2913 by a group of disenfranchised aristocrats and their supporters among the clergy and the common people. For some time before that, Mordusia had been run almost unilaterally by the communist United Workers Front. A number of industrialists had expressed their discontent by forming the Elitist Super Squad in 2909, but the aristocratic founders of the Tory Party despised the greedy ultra-capitalistic yet socially liberal style of the ESS just as strongly as they disliked the hammer-and-sickle communism of the UWF. This alignment of circumstances led to the Tories coming out strongly in favor of economic centrism, social and moral conservatism, and reinforcement of Mordusia's traditional religious institution