The deeper reason power vacuums form lies in the cost of governance.
Consider the costs of direct administration: surveillance, law enforcement, maintaining basic public services, resolving conflicts, and more.
When these costs exceed the potential gains from an area—like taxes, resources, and stable output—the authorities will naturally choose another method.
Decentralization, or rather, tacitly allowing a certain degree of autonomy.
Take, for instance, that omnipresent net in the New Realm, woven from imperceptible matter.
'Hmm, I'll call it the Magic Net for now. After all, Carlos did explicitly mention the Magic Net Administration Bureau.'
'It did indeed record the data from my previous Casting, and it might have even tracked all my Energy Fluctuations on the flight to this city.'
'In theory, my "illegal Casting," as Carlos called it, should have been flagged long ago, and the authorities should have taken action.'
But in reality, they hadn't.
'Why is that?'
