Talk:Demon Realm/@comment-25075355-20150913120028/@comment-26419174-20150913151629

I personally would put it this way:

In theory DL has high degree of control over most DR on the account of her being, well, DL with all the power and control over most monsters she has ex officio. Those DR that consist of monsters she has less control over  (zipangi monsters, demons of chaos, Fallen god monsters, maybe sea monsters) as well as monster friendly states can be her allies or neitral or even oppose her. In theory.

In practise  though DL never bothers to do anything with that power, because she does not really need much from other realms. RM is the largest and the richest of DR both materially and in DE(and because of nature of DR produce those are connected), her standing army is strong enough to repel orderite attack on the RM itself or any of the allies and the effects of the changes she imposed on monsters mean, that there is very low chance of other monsters doing anything that might screw up her plan to a degree that would require agressive intervention. The only thing she truly needs  is more DE and both DR and monster friendly states do not require her iterference to provide that. Furthermore, the goal she has in mind is appealing to overwhelming majority of the monsters, so even the realms which are can oppose her generally do not do so, simply because they have no reason to

Now with regard to Druella, keep in mind, that strictly speaking, it's not her who now rules Lescatie it's Francisca. And yes strictly speaking she is politically independent. It's just that Druella has so much influence on the queen and DL has so much influence on Druella that it is all but impossible that lescatie will ever refuse any "suggestion" originating from DL.

With regards to alliance system, well I guess so, with a caveat that DL's personal army, comnined with what local forces were present/ were always more than enough to repel the attack meaning that there is nor evidence for all the DR actively helping each other.