His point isn't that the food situation is bad in Luria but that he has cracked on Hrok being the law of the land when it comes to food and !@#$ like that, isn't going to fly. I could easily imagine Hrok having the lord banned and war brought on to a realm that got the region if they weren't willing to give the region back.
In D'hara, it certainly doesn't seem the same would ever come close to happening. I blame Republicanism, damn Lords running the place and not respecting the authority they agreed to submit to. (More or less America pre-civilwar with Lords=states).
The lords don't need to have their hands slapped, they know ahead of time what is needed of them for the realm to survive.
The banker doesn't need to go on a power trip, the lords willingly comply. However, if someone really wanted to go solo, especially a rural lord, in a way that would cause starvation to cities... you can be sure that the whole realm would stand against him. D'Hara has this particularity: not only the city lords are more powerful than rural lords, they are also more numerus. Wealth distribution, though, has more to do with population than region type, however, rurals often being just as rich(poor) as the devastated cities, townslands usually being the better off.
