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Well, I don't have a good answer for you, but you've basically defined my new novel for me.
You see, I've been talking recently about how I messed up my novel because it was a magic college novel where the guy leaves to go galavanting. It was totally unfocused and had some of my worst writing habits littered throughout.
So I wanted to write a proper dark academia magic college novel. I had a mechanic that was going to carry the story and a half-formed plot for why he'd use it. But dismantling the state propaganda machine from the inside is a beautiful use of the plot. I even had the college replete with what I called "the facism wing of the school"
If I had to give you an answer, soft state power in my novels is nascent. Their neighbors are an old communist society, a post revolution republic, and a land that's generally post government. So fae aren't naturally keen to listen to them. But if they did start listening, then they would be cultivating horribly strong mages while simultaneously weakening the people who were recently at war with them. You could go so far as to get deep into the Marxism about the subtle lies of the kingdom