I think involvement from factions would be a primary problem with this idea- Personally I was fine pledging to a state in Eotor because it wasn't about factions. It was about roleplay and character building first, and was a (much needed) reprieve from the baggage that Factions competitions bring. I know personally that I wouldn't pledge to anything like this in Factions simply because they have nothing to offer me from the perspective of a Factions player. Added to the fact that I don't want a random person who wrote an application on some form 6 months ago to boss me around- and I'm probably not the only person that thinks like that