And... it hasn't occurred to you that you are using 100% modern political terms on an SMA island?
off course i am! :p that the beauty of it! it's a big wild land, sociological a freestate like Madina could very well happen in Dwilight (if it existed in a similair world like ours around 1200/1300) until some powerful religious order gets rid of it!
and also please remember this is BM not the real world.
I do agree that it sounds strange and revolutionary, but it does make perfect sense IC.
I am also using modern terms as neoconservatism, to make my point.
in the game i don't call it like that of course...
