I think you just can't expect the same level of respect, trust and focus that existed in Perdan between players that knew eachother for many years and had an established power base as in Sandalak where you've all been thrown in the pit together just a couple of months ago.
See, that's a problem. Your default *should* be to trust your realm-mates. They are your team. The SI is a team-based island. Innumerable people have been saying that from the beginning. Yet quite a few of the people that have been saying that continue to play on SI as if it was a single-player game, and they are the central, most important part of the entire realm. Where's the cooperation?
