"They have an extremely structured and rigid society, from what I can tell, and are led by a council of sorts."
We of Hyla do not have such a rigid, structured society.
The fact that she, as a woman, had property in her own name was viewed with dismay in the more rigid society of the day.
Certainly, history showed that rigid societies, like ancient dinosaurs, always died.
What they reveal is not a rigid, static society but an evolving and vigorous one.
How could a rigid society expand to other star systems, let alone other galaxies?
Nearly all come to escape what they see as Japanese society's rigid dictates about what to study, where to work and even how to think.
As for me, I'll choose a free, organic society over a rigid, artificial society any day.
They are simply confused, instinctively conservative people who joined the party as a way to move up in a rigid society.
They are a rigid society that has been hidden from their inception.