Microstate RP

[Proselyte]

Gotcha, thank you.

Well, I don't see anything inherently wrong with the concept of roleplaying out small constituent or independent polities and lending them lots of background and development through writing. You could make the argument that, depending on how it is done, it could get excessively bureaucratic which is going to limit people's interest, but that's a matter of style.

What others have said about the behavior of sometimes much more influential factions has merit, though. I think an important part of developing the character of a small polity like that is immediately accepting that its physical impact on the game world should be almost all indirect. I'm not even sure doing such a concept as a traditional Disco faction is even a good idea.

I'd personally aim for it to be more of a background entity or location for other characters to interact with on the forum or in base RP or something, as like a roleplay hub or mission generating thing that their actions can have an impact on. Like, the Settler's League of Nowhereburg or whatever need a delivery of mining machinery? Some folks do that, and great, the local government expands a mine somewhere, and now they have access to more minerals to fabricate stuff around their settlements, and so they start making valuable things. If they're independent, pirates could start extorting them on threat of blowing them up. Maybe someone steps in? Maybe someone else extorts them even more? Roleplay opportunities. This would require some co-operative effort.

You mentioned stations as well, and obviously PoBs come to mind, but you do have to accept that that means an involvement in the political landscape of space (the actual game) beyond just roleplay, since anyone can just drive over and blow you and your station RP to kingdom come if they feel like it. If it's cool, they might not, but no guarantees. You could try to RP this out as a small interest group on an NPC station, but I'd try to avoid claiming that gives authority over anybody (beyond whatever factions normally claim).

That's how I'm thinking on it. Mostly as a hub for forum interaction or contexualizing some in-game roleplay. Not really as a tagged force in-game that has sector-spanning ambitions or the power to enforce any of them. Microstates have micro-problems and micro-goals.