That's precisely what we want you to think.
So... keep thinking that...
Anywho, to avoid further threadjacking, the region could strive to improve its PR and seem less n00bish and become something actually worth GPs respect and time, however, as it stands that goal seems particularly unreachable. While they haven't done anything particularly bad to be blacklisted by Defenderdom, they haven't really done anything and that's mostly the problem.