As we find out in the books in the Great Gubal Library (and from other cutscenes, such as the Cape Westwind trial), the way a person in a conquered society becomes a citizen is primarily through military service. That's how the Garleans work. They conquer a nation, then they offer a choice: ignoble servitude as functionally slaves, or the chance to become a citizen in the greatest empire the world has known (so they claim; scholarly types would take issue with that 
). So, the inhabitants of conquered lands go out and conquer for their masters, secure in the knowledge that success will result in their status being raised.
The Garleans are pretty close to Romans, conceptually, so if you think of conquered cities under Roman rule, you'll be pretty close. Citizens have rights; those who aren't citizens have the right to pay tribute, to scrape and bow, and to do as they're told. Aya's got the right of it from what we've seen in cutscenes.
As a side note, the Garleans actually traded fairly regularly with Ul'dah and Limsa Lominsa before they decided to try to conquer them. Sounsyy has some great lore references on that.
). So, the inhabitants of conquered lands go out and conquer for their masters, secure in the knowledge that success will result in their status being raised.The Garleans are pretty close to Romans, conceptually, so if you think of conquered cities under Roman rule, you'll be pretty close. Citizens have rights; those who aren't citizens have the right to pay tribute, to scrape and bow, and to do as they're told. Aya's got the right of it from what we've seen in cutscenes.
As a side note, the Garleans actually traded fairly regularly with Ul'dah and Limsa Lominsa before they decided to try to conquer them. Sounsyy has some great lore references on that.
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