Dhirim is hardly a real free area, never truly was, and ofc they don't open borders, randomly opening your borders is silly while you actively need S&D and need to make sure no no one spies, but maybe you could like have tried talking to the greys back when their borders were closed and you weren't Eastern, heck back when their borders were closed even openly anti bloc people like me who continuesly told people from UIF that while I appreciated them letting me through/use a bit of S&D/purchase some weaponry/whatever then I'd still fight them and Eastern, you however make love with the Eastern bloc and then expect UIF to let you just walk around, that's a bit idiotic, and just like Easterns Dhirim Greys and DRZ got open borders to all none-eastern scum nowadays so...
Haboe regarding "Also, no you don't block trade in your area, but everyone that is not in uif seems to support coalition in your eyes " then our faction members have several times passed through their lands since they opened their borders and I've always been openly anti UIF, I'm just slightly more anti Eastern.
Haboe yeah, everyone with less than 300 troops, with the only place that's being stated being in mad raging pms from gingerpussy, and with huge amounts of taxes. But that's not the main reason I think the Dhirim area has always been bullshitty, several times during this strategus you've used the Dhirim area to get random players to give you troops/gold (day after 1k+ army leaves Dhirim for Nord lands new "Give us your troops so we can defend Dhirim" thread pops up, when you felt you needed more troops you'd post about selling the area in the hopes that randommers would give you troops to convince you not too, as an excuse to completely wipe United Democratic (one of the many stated reasons was that they let greys get land in the Dhirim area), and all those kinds of things.