Trying to use anarchy stats as a benchmark of success is generally moronic and you should feel bad for using it. Since the paradigm shift in war to the stance of nuking all the time, every time, you're doing something pretty damn wrong if you're not putting people into anarchy.
I read the line about putting magicninja in charge and all I could think of was how hard the gears in OsRavan's head would start churning about how to crisis manage the situation. Twas a great good read and a great laugh. Maybe I'll have to drag my largely retired self off the couch stop on by TLR's forums sometime so you can get to know FTW a bit more.
While I generally find perma-war distasteful, if a group brings it upon themselves, then there's no sympathy for them. It will be interesting how much ends up being left of Polar, should such a policy actually be acted upon.
Admittedly, my first thought was mild surprise that certain signatories were on board with this, but surprise that USN was actually still a functioning alliance anymore was a very close second.