1. Which does not make it any less of a breach in international standards. You also need to stop with the RL comparisons. Those nations do not exist in TSP Universe.

2. Both the US and Mexico have areas with very high and very low living standards. It is a silly oversimplification to say that "US=high living standards, Mexico=fucked up living standards". Same with China, which is not all poor, and actually has plenty of highly developed areas.

3. Fair enough.

4. Your King had fled, your country is under foreign occupation, your territory and infrastructure are several damaged. How on earth do you expect to have a functioning government, capable of holding elections, and still be realistic? Hell, how do you claim to have any government at all! You can't just jump points when convenient.

5. Honestly...don't announce that you are going to invade a place. That's a silly thing to do, and just bad strategy.