And that is why we fight you. To preserve our own future cultures of tomorrow. Ironically enough im reading a book about the rise of Islam and crusader kings. SA is the HRE and Islam all in one.
Maybe in said book you have read of how the Europeans in the Fourth Crusade got bored and looted Constantinople before they even got to the Holy Land? And how the HRE lasted for 1000 years?
I think history is against you, if your characterization is accurate.
I do see it though. SA has a very large degree of political control (like HRE) and the ample lore behind it gives so much that the doctrines tend to be culturally pervasive (like Islam). Of course Islam did tend to fall to political infighting every so often. Very often actually.