Ugh, world building and politics are not this series strongsuits. They never spend any time actually living in the world or exploring it or even interacting with regular people, so everything just has to be shoved into these exposition dump talking sessions. And then I don't even feel bothered reading it cuz it won't come up again until 30 chapters later when it's resolved by the MC and/or his harem being OP.
Also, yeah, no I kinda feel sorry for the people of this world. If the MC wasn't the MC he'd just be a pure villian. Imagine hearing that a city was nearly wiped off the map like we're in the old testament because of some rumors insulting the MC behind his back.