And Madina city is clearly a competitor, not a partner. It gathers food we otherwise would have had for much cheaper to then resell it to us, quite frankly causing Paisly's financial ruin. Paisly's caravans can reach most of Madina's rurals, after all.
Can't capitalist(-like) countries be friends or allies?
Is the NATO an illusion and none of those countries ever worked together or got along?
Madina is at war and of-course it will 'compete'/do what ever is possible and still honorable by its own norms, it can do to survive and take its land back.
