>>29912776>So what you're saying is that North Korea would be on to something if they were magical ponies instead of humans.Yeah. In a fantasy world like Equestria, you can actually have a benevolent dictator who cares and works not only for her own people but for all people.
>there might not be a lot of economic incentive to try to properly integrate them into national societyMight not be, but could be depending on natural resources like for example crystals. Could also be other incentives. Could even be a sense of guilt on Celestia's part, seeing as it's her partial failure that got the empire banished in the first place.
>We know nothing about it except that it's made of crystals and Sombra used to be in charge.Judging by it's age and location, and the fact they're not mentioned as one of the three tribes during Heart's Warming Eve, we could infer that the barrier brought on by their crystal heart kept them safe enough from the Windigoes. And they called their sheep "tiny jews" or somesuch.
But such speculation and minor details is about the gist of what we know about them, yeah.
>I think all you can say about anything in Equestria post season 3 is that it works because the show will never ask how it works.Kind of applies to everything, really. We don't know much about Canterlot either except that it's a diverse city with equal (among the 3 common ones) racial representation and that Celestia has her seat there. Appleloosa too, we know it's a new settlement and they grow apples there, but that's about it. We don't know why everyone is a Wild West cosplayer or why they decided to settle in such a seemingly barren wasteland.
Hell, it wasn't even until now, S7E1, that the show took the time to stop and ask for Celestia's perspective and true motives from the pilot more than half a decade ago.
