As you can see, I love Worldbuilding, but this will be brief:

Giray didn't join the continent-wide war mentioned in the OP and several characters' backstories. That's because its main selling point, and justification for its immoral behavior, was that the rest of the world is more sucky than it (which may or may not be true) and that for its people to live well, it had to take extreme measures.

[@The Harbinger of Ferocity], [@Belwicket], [@Jon Y], [@The Fated Fallen], [@Dragoknighte], [@boomlover], [@KazeXDZ], [@IcePezz].