Pah, Norland was the realm which broke the Protectorate of Hasland. Clearly the realm that spawned Norland was superior in every way, it even managed to hold out against more realms for longer =)
To be fair, combat has changed a *lot* since 2003...
Edit: And travel...
And the IR...
and the players...
and just about everything else, really. Was population even dynamic that far back?