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Because each community has to act in its own interest, promoting and nurturing the best and brightest.

While in a state system all the tax money gets sent hundreds of miles away for what are effectively foreign elites to play with while your own city withers and dies under heavy taxation to no benefit.

Imo the HRE was the beating heart of Europe and every year that passes since its death Europe progressively crumbles into nothingness.