Election Matters: Life on Universityworld

As a 15-year-old, Parvin escaped her home planet of God's Victorious Warriors, when its repressive government executed the rest of her family.

Now living on the planet Universityworld, the former runaway teaches mathematics and is known as Professor Parvin Priddlikachorn. Her husband, Professor Siddithamon Priddikachorn, nicknamed Pretty, teaches planetary geology and hails from the planet Pradang. The couple have a 17-year-old son and 14-year-old daughter.

Parvin thinks the time is right to ...