Well MK members literally make up roughly like 20% of all the people who play, and they control all c3 empires and prolly all have their fair share of BTCs. Everyone else is simply playing for themselves and lack either the motivation or the training to make a c3, and part of the reason is the very lack of players who even bother battling above 1m pr. Plus the lack of players make it hard for tax, plunder, CG, miner or Agri economies to function properly. It`s too easy for a single tax viral or miner to literally eat up all the food on the market and still be hurting.
Also in order for an organized counterforce to develop, any opposition force must be able to get together online somewhere and just talk on MSN, because you can bet MK all have each other MSN IDs and are all good friends of each other on MSN. I just don`t see much of that in the opposition. We have a lack of new players getting into the game, and the rest of them are getting too old or bored to fanatically play the game anymore.