Who is strategically undervalued in your world? Who is deliberately kept away from positions of power, authority and respect?
I like that a lot.
@golgaloth Was just discussing this yesterday, how the Western world devalues other countries by calling them "under-developed" which really just means "not sufficiently like us", ie materialist, capitalist, high consumption. All these countries had highly developed cultures, social and economic systems but so different from European that they were not visible to them.