The 2011 Avatar re-watch

That is true, we don't know how other allies govern, and I guess we see eye-to-eye in the sense that was what I was getting at in saying that having Long Feng as an ally could have led to interesting explorations of what you're willing to accept in order to have a powerful ally. The scenario lizbee describes in the comment above me could have been really fascinating. Unfortunately, as she points out, he's the one who cut off that avenue by never giving them a hearing and taking advantage of it. He wanted the power of running the government, but in the decision to put off Team Avatar, he was perhaps too focused on keeping them away from the king and too obsessed with maintaining the perfect order within the city that he passed on the chance to run the show when it came to the invasion.