[quote=@So Boerd]
I'll take you up for Client state.
[/quote]

And Sini and I were working up a deal where Holtland is a former colony; the refugees of a Sturvian invasion of Bachenburg, the original country the Holtish fled from. 

So they were probably working for your guys during the last war as well.

It is up to you which parties in the parliament the Resian government currently supports and wishes to encourage. Most notably, military leadership is corrupt, and therefore easily influenced by outside groups. How you wish to play that is fundamentally up to you.