I keep referring the central government as the lord because:
If you are rich and powerful, the Lord can still take you down, doom your reputation and confesticate your business in an overnight, but you know the Lord won't do it without a good reason. The central is so efficient, that you better think it as a unified person with integrity, that he doesn't retaliate without reason and purpose, and he doesn't act on too small offenses or lack of briibe, he knows if you are loyal by the look, and he acts relentlessly - you can even love him for his integrity.
Yep, what you keep describing is soooo much better than what we have in the West. So much better to be filthy rich and powerful but still live in a cage and live in fear, than the system we have.
In fact, the Nazi leaders and military commanders were also rich and powerful, but lived under a state of control and fear. And we have all seen how that turned out...
/s