Quote Originally Posted by Kallera View Post
Are they that xenophobic, despite having a consulate? hostely sounds like a worse case than the spacesuit nobles in World Government.(/one piece)

It also sounds like it would be very easy to have such a race of people..."disappear" from the setting.
The consulate probably just acts as a front for their influence in Kugane, be it things like what Gyodo did or spying. It also lets any would-be revolutionaries know that the Empire is watching them.