Prequels would have been materially better if Naboo had been Alderaan.

Not just a D+8 state but one of the two states where the negative effects of the doge cuts were immediate and obvious there was no other thing that people could have assumed cause all that hardship like in other states.

Yeah as someone who really likes both of them I don't want him to finish ASOIAF they are just too different in style

Newark, Anaheim, Naperville and Arlington

Also from what I remember while intervention was unpopular the average American and most of the political elites were rooting for the allies even if they didn't think the us should get involved.

Tortoises are capable of love but their culture disdains it.