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"It could be like FF12" is...a deeply, profoundly weak argument, I find. Especially in light of the few snippets we DO get about occupied Ala Mhigo painting it as pretty bleak. It is classist and dictatorial for certain and as Belhi said, extremely unlikely that most even have basic rights as Garlean citizens based on other imperial lore we've found, some of which was in Gubal Library as I recall. We also know through personal history of NPCs that the occupation is one of oppression, rape, and hardline military control. "There will be blood" means that a lot of people are going to die, and anything else is mere interpretation.