I think at the very least there needs to a fuller internal politics view. For example who are these statesman and what are they doing? Who are also all the candidates in the general pool who keep popping up? How come there's no list of past leaders anywhere? The history of your faction is lost. It's just a very lazy outlaying of what's going on internally. They could also probably fit in a family tree somewhere since you have a family. Probably multiple trees/groupings depending on your faction. It just really needs to be fleshed out some more.