The official Gundam 00 site has some interesting background info on Shirin Bakhtiar, which gives some additional extra insight into Marina's situation. Putting in spoiler since not come out in series yet:
Spoiler for translation from Wikipedia:
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A chaperon and adviser to Marina Ismail at the Azadistan royal palace. She has great knowledge of politics but cannot take part in the Azadistan government in an official capacity because women are prohibited from being involved. Consequently, her words and behavior have a bite to them.
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So basically, if women can't be directly involved in the government, then Marina is like a red flag to the conservatives - "A
woman involved in running the country!? Over my dead body!".
Anyway, I think the complaints aimed at Marina are more because it seems like she wouldn't do much even if she did have some real power.
It's going to be interesting to see how Marina and Setsuna affect each other in future...
PS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ini_technology
Rather interesting...