There was until recently. It was a civil war sparked by the assassination of the Chancellor.

[She actually gestures towards the man on the left in her crude doodle of hated people. This one has darker hair and she went through the trouble of making sure there was a streak of white towards the front.]

I didn't receive a picture of him because at the end of the war we found out he was alive and well. Somehow in two months he recovered fully from a shot to the heart. A shame the same wasn't true for Crow.