outside the city isnt automatically a panacea
raider parties can target a solo place and overrun it too.
Yes, and those “raider parties” will be backed by the black letter of the written laws passed by our betters. Time to re-read Bastiat’s The Law. The process is spelled out quite clearly therein. In fact an oft posted quote from Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is as near a quote match from Bastiat as one can imagine related to lawful plunder.