@Vykos It doesn't matter, If they have connections and a high social standing.
There's always 2 opposites... They just haven't shown us that, probably not important to the story.
Lets put our time for example, there's peace on the surface but there's been an economic war since years by now and small skirmishes(that obviously are not made public immediately) still happen to get "special" resources which I don't think I have to say...