User blog comment:Armada 371/Maruyama Interview translation from reddit./@comment-33177490-20170527204415/@comment-82.154.218.105-20170528041048

If ST maintained the surronding zone with humans, you can't expect the countries surronding their zone to be much stronger than ST. From what we saw so far, ST is far stronger than any of the other human countries and seems to have a relative force agaisnt the unkown surronding ones.

The beings they are most afraid of is DLs and one of the most powerful DLs for that matter, they also did think they do have a chance fighting him with CDL and seem to have the mentality that if they were to fight him without CDL they do end up in a (somewhat) draw where PDL is slained but at the cost of the countrie itself.

I do say that at very least the first layer of unkown countries shouldn't be that much stronger than ST, we also are left to be shown one of their scriptures, which seems to be weird and I dont know how much that would hold on their countrie strength.