Exactly.
500 players is pretty much everyone on AT - character count right now: 530 active characters, played by 366 different players - wait, 500 is everyone and then some.
If everyone agreed on this, or even just almost everyone, overthrowing, rebelling, or destroying that federation would be trivial. If it doesn't happen, than apparently enough people support it.
http://forum.battlemaster.org/index.php/topic,3375.0.htmlStarted a poll. We'll see what we get.