I have to agree. The only sympathetic Garleans are the ones that defected and those who still reside Garlemald probably want to make Garlemald back into a republic again (maybe that's that's where the uprising where Lucia and Livia's parents were killed and them sent to be probably re-educated)

Garlemald was a Republic once and 50 years of being an Empire wont erase the history and people who remember that it was once a republic. Most likely the good Garlean's we'll meet (if ever) will be those who tires from the long war and wish to return to a Republic (for the good of all)