Atamara was ruled by a relatively small group of people who made it their mission to prevent anyone else from ever doing anything independently.
It wasn't simply that they ruled in silence - they actively ruined the game for people not in their in-group. They took pride in not sharing, information or anything else. Some of them even hung out on the old IRC channels and made jokes about how stupid all the other players were and that that was why they needed to give them detailed commands every day.
That's not every single character who ever had any power, of course, but it far more than most people are willing to admit.
