Have impeding/stopping govt intrusion and power leverage gain as number 1 priority. Everything else must accomodate and mould around that, including economic issues. If the true free market is left to its devices without usury it will always sort itself out.
Yes it is 24 hrs sun for a few days or weeks. I have a friend there. This collapses the entire theory. I researched this just like you. Go and search this question in FE specific forums. They build a whole other model with 2 suns or something to explain it.
Could be because of this and not casualties.