@kaia

not gonna gain one much being a patsy, regional politicians will just be expected to carry the dog head for unpopular policies from the core party for little pay, everyone else will consider them a social pariah and they'll be eliminated from the party as soon as they become inconvenient in some way

this presuming the entire thing won't devolve into full-scale war-economy mafia thuggism where you can just become voivode over a city and outright steal shit and have people killed if you scheme hard enough, but i don't think that will happen this time around

if you wanna get away with stealing and corruption in the west, you join the "nice guys"