User blog comment:Hidden Scorpius XI/My impressions on "It's a Brawl in the Family" (Vol3.Ep3)/@comment-3387274-20151115214223

Pretty sure you figured this out already, but the implication behind Vale's government and schoole being seperate is that this is not the case in Atlas. With Ironwood being where he is the government, the schools, and the military are effectively all a single entity over there, with Ironwood potentially being the highest authority outside of their council. Add in the fact that Weiss is the only known Atlesian we haven't seen in any kind of uniform, and the implication looks worringly like a police state.