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That was a very well thought out analysis. Though I would like to point a few things out. The Craftworld eldar can't really be rated on account of the fact that they aren't unified. As you may have pointed out each Craftworld is itself a nation with its own rules and culture. For instance I would rate Biel-tan as highly aggressive and destructive, while LYanden is very repressive.

Regarding the Imperium I would like to point out that it isn't quite as totalitarian as most people believe. While it's true that the Imperium places little value of on the lives of its individual citezens and grants them almost no implicit rights, it also doesn't actively oppress them. They ruthlessly enforce certain universals among their people for sure, but they don't usually take an active role in oppressing them. THis is because the nature of interstellar transportation and communication in this setting makes micromanagement entirely impossible for an interstellar empire of the Imperium's size. As a result the day to day doings of the Imperium's peopleare entirely subject to the local government of the planet upon which they reside. Regarding reporession one would say that the Imperium creates an environment that seems to promote tyranny rather than being tyrannical themselves.