User blog comment:Robert Mc Roberts/The Treaty of Madrid:Potential Peace between the EITC and Spain/@comment-3553851-20110713220810

the EITC was powerful enough to be its own nation. it had soldiers, batallions, "bases" which were really just like whole islands under EITC control. idk why it stayed with england, it could have rebelled or whatever and became its own nation somehow. FMA  = THE KING!