Personally, I think the Zoners are treated as a single entity when the people who want to cause them harm want to treat them as a single entity, and are treated as a splintered group when the people who want to cause them harm want to treat them as a splintered group.
Then again, I am a biased Zoner who simply wants the best for the Zoner faction. Of course, if you think that, chances are, you are trying to do the Zoner faction harm.