Seriously, you should NOT use Honorverse analogues to analyze real-world politics. Honorverse is a work of fiction; it is NOT accurate representation of real world processes & effects.
I often wonder if that is true...
the best lie is built around a core of the truth... and fiction is a lie at its' basic layer, but it, like a fable can be used to teach a moral lesson in a way that cannot be matched in the daily headlines.
We are drawn to the character of persons in the novel, we either like them and cheer them on, or we fear or hat the prospect the villain will succeed in their nefarious plans.
I have studied political science and anthropology for most of my adult life and see wonderful parables presented in a way that are more acceptable because the alien did it.
We are more likely to believe that the cabinet of Baron of High Ridge would be corrupt, and that they would jeopardize the well being of the nation they are supposed to be serving because we have had occasional examples of such corruption in our own governments...
(why, there could even be such an example now) ... like Michael Janvier, there is an arrogance and hubris about them and as has been proved time and again "crime doesn't pay" enough.
As if. Russia is riddled with corruption and has an economy smaller than the UK. If not for its exports bringing in money, it would have imploded by now.
The EU is in the middle of a slow-motion implosion. The whole thing was a screw-up from the start and right now, they're re-arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic and the internal pressures they thought they could simply legislate into unimportance froth up and start popping the corks. The Right Wing parties are gaining headway in Germany. That alone indicates things are effed up.