Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160807005311/@comment-10390252-20160921211858

Yeah, Atlas, as we know it, is just the school and the military headquarters. The rest of the city state is overrun with Grimm and has been for long enough that Atlas no longer thinks of itself as anything other than an expression of its military.

As for the rest, it is quite possible that not all of the Maidens believed Ozpin's theory of the looming threat; the Brotherhood could hardly imprison them, after all (indeed, it is unlikely that they could be held against their will at all). However, Amber's destruction probably has sent any others who were refusing to heed the warning running for cover.