Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-31113156-20170212105313/@comment-27861768-20170215072157

Yugoslavia example works because you didn't have a single faction causing problems there... but you did have a single strong party pretty much "sweeping those problems under the rug" and ignoring them where possible, using brute force and oppression where it wasn't. Which worked more or less fine for 45 years... untill it no longer worked and we got what we got.

Zirantia is similar in that you have all those factions causing problems and OZL doing their best to keep status quo and ignore those problems. That will work for some time (but their expiration date is fast approaching) but it can't work indefinatelly.

Yes, implications are that Divine Claw is working from behind some to sabotage things and create issues but there is a reason for that: they're not nearly strong enough to act directly. At the moment majority of their influence and respect came from the fact that they're supposedly neutral so they got those from followers of all four major (and probably numerous minor) parties. If they openly support anyone (or even try to take power for themselves) that support, respect and influence is immediatelly gone. Sure, they might have raw military power to assume control but without support from majority of population that control will be short lived (we're still probably talking years tho).

You're correct that NUP is smaller then OZL, but so is everyone else. Nationalist Action Party and People's Action Party may be slightly larger but that's it. Not helping OZL is the only way NUP can grow and get into a position where it can take over.

As for Yhilin - Aram conflict... nationalist Zirantia is more likely to stay out of it completely, but even OZL controled one can't help us that much (or at all).