What's bad with that? 
That being said, the North-East's geography, albeit imperfect, is fairly superior to other places'. Although I guess, despite it barely ever happening, things could be different with a bunch of city states in the West (as opposed to a few giant realms as it always was).
The west only ever had one giant realm, and that was Astrum. Possibly Caerwyn before the crusade that destroyed it. After that was Kabrinskia/Farronite Republic, Asylon, and Niselur that had to fight together just to match Astrum.
