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Originally Posted by aohige

The biggest example of PH's inherent authoritarian issue is, they enforce a hierarchy of "citizen ranks".
Social stratification. A caste system.

Those are always ugly.

Even their council is ranked. Unlike the eleven guild masters of the Round Table all having equal voice, the ten council members of Plant Hwyden are ranked in order of hierarchy.

To add on to what aohige has said,

Spoiler for In Minami:

Minami's system is one where the Adventurers enjoy good living at the expense of the common Landers, in contrast to Akiba's policy of relative equal standing between both parties.

The sad thing is that most of Minami's Adventurers chose to turn a blind eye to the Landers' sufferings. In this sense, they have not moved on from the Day the Catastrophe struck.

I think the irony is that, if we discount Nureha (who's pretty much Inctis' puppet), both Akiba and Minami's ruling councils were founded by former DTP members.