The idea was to have an authoritative figure who would speak out if ministers were cooking the books with over-optimistic assumptions about economic growth, or tax receipts, or whatever.
Gourmet-cooking empty nesters found themselves gushing over kitchen islands topped with gleaming granite and decorated with state-of-the art cook tops and vegetable sinks.
The steak had a perfectly glazed crust, purely from the cooking on a grill, although the accompanying curly kale and crispy ham hock was over-chewy and undercooked.
Even when the fighting stopped, simply going to school or gathering firewood for cooking was a potentially life-threatening activity in many areas: landmines and unexploded bombs caused over 340 casualties in the first six months after the fighting ended, and all in an area half the size of Wales.