User blog comment:GrandMethuselah67/Lore Sheet: The United Republic of Humankind/@comment-4867780-20150630050104/@comment-26322734-20150630050643

Yep.

Plus...well, the United Republic is also united against a common enemy.

Kazzack. Why degenerate your society into chaos and potentially make yourself vulnerable to a hive mind eldritch abomination?