As a newly materialised nation, which my make my opinion invalid to some, it seems to me that that the alliance to watch is NPO.
I have no experience of the pre karma world but I have read much and the fact that NPO still exists as a functioning and apparently thriving organisation after those events, indeed more functional than the forces ranged against it. I'm thinking of the ludicrous drivel from MK et al concerning GOONS and their current troubles and the failed scheme to drag NPO into a war by attacking NSO. (I know this is not an accepted fact but it appears to me to be the motivation).
The point of my post is that I would argue that if we accept the NPO as a colonial entity it is premature to declare the post colonial period.