Bugoslavia is wealthy because someone kept the books while louder people fantasized about what to do with the surplus. I did that work. The migrants arrived. The treasury stayed healthy. The market deepened. The republic remained desirable. That is governance.
Corin mistakes his own scale for the entire nation. Vex mistakes appetite for strategy. Pravda mistakes decency for an accounting system. I mistake none of them.
A rich republic does not need a prophet. It needs a ledger, a steady hand, and enough seriousness to prefer compounding over posturing.