Indies are people's right. They have as much right to be independent as they have to be in a official faction or make one.
Being a official faction does not mean that your roleplay is reached it's peak, nor does being an indie. It's not the independents who worry me anymore, it's the people who do not realize their rp always has room to improve.
slapping an "official faction" or "indie" on a player does not measure his roleplay.