This is a political game. There are always strings. Even when alliances are formed with mutual respect and trust.
I would hope that TWP does not set to work turning itself into another boring cookie cutter feeder region.
But it MUST turn itself into something other than completely reliant on the Guardians. This much I promise.
So, if they set up a silly copy of some other region's system, at least they will have a starting place. Then let them battle as the flaws in that system are revealed. The important thing is that it will be THEIR battles. The internal community of TWP will decide. That's bound to cause some rough arguments and hurt feelings. But in the end, if the community remembers that it is TWP they are working for,things will come together.
Uni... it really hurts that you equate TWP's position as the miserable twat region. And I think you are wrong on so many levels that there are no longer any pieces of common ground between TWP and your perceptions of NS. We might as well live on different planets.