Quote Originally Posted by Scintilla View Post

- Slavery; Citizens of Ul'dah, including children, could be sold to repay debts. With able men kept imprisoned and forced into brutal fights before an audience in the Coliseum for their freedom. Meanwhile, less able prisoners were forced into a daily routine of back-breaking chores followed by training in which even minor mistakes were punished with beatings.
- Syndicate; Whilst Nanamo may be the 'face' of Ul'dah leadership with her role as the Sultan, much of the power lies with the rest of the Syndicate: the richest in society and the seats of which can be bought. Needless to say, being able to buy a position of power is far from ideal and is something even Garlemald (as far as we know) didn't go as far as to do. Not only would such an arrangement increase the already considerable rift between the wealthy and poor, but lead to an easier manipulation of the vulnerable.
Of course there might be more aspects (and I was ready to read what he had to say about the real bad stuff that they did in recent years that come close to Garlemald) but I just wrote of those that came to my mind that were on the forefront of the story. Which in case of Limsa is their old pirate lifes, in Uldah its mostly the problem with the rich people doing their selfish things and the situation of the refugees and Gridania with its stance of not helping or even shunning outsiders out of fear. That there are more problems that I can see, but we also have to remember that these problems probably happen in a lot of states, maybe even in Garlemald so I wanted to concentrate on those more specific to a state.

And honestly with all the help we are doing we should have found out about the bad stuff the states are doing already. We are putting our noses in a lot of different businesses. We also do know the leaders quite well and have seen some of their reactions. So I have just a hard time seeing them doing some atrocies especially after seeing how they were dealing with Fordola.

About the conscripted pirates: I have not heard about this ingame but the game is long and the translations can be different between languages. So if they do have conscripted pirates too then that might be a minus point for Limsa. Of course the question still is: Are they just criminals that get a chance of getting free with that or are they forced like Garlean soldiers with the death of their loved ones as "motivation"?

So of course the city states have their problems too but they are seemingly working on them.