Well, we must Salt Gift neighbours with *something* and we only have one Saltern and a lot of neighbours.
They can try. TH are a bit too far to project power to us in any sufficient quantity, so I am not yet afraid of them all too much, not with our defensive advantages.
I mean, if we get into an offense, they probably will mulch us, but that's different.
Point of order: we have not started the megaproject, we half-assed it because Balanced policy magically makes everything better because our chiefs are perfect and players are nothing more than a hindrance to our omniscient decision-makers.
If we took Megaproject support, we would be very close to finishing the Temple, or, with lucky rolls, would have finished it already, with resulting Stability and other stuff to make this shit more bearable.
AN explicitly said that we picked one of the worst possible Admin options and that the Clan Reform picks were actually not limited to the city, but more or less state-wide all along. While geographical and 'by profession' were city-limited. Basically, we went for Tax Crisis 2: City Clans Boogaloo.
What did you do?