First time playing as them and a few queries.

All of their territories in the immediate vicinity are all type 3 and 4 governments and I can only imagine this holds true for places further afield so can I get type 1 or type 2 government at all? (even other fractured tribal types like the Lusotannan get type 1 and 2's in some places).

Related to that is this, what does the trait 'Royal Eye' do? After reading it I assumed it meant that an FM could be in a Type 3 or 4 (and thus pass on his management and influence bonuses) without accruing 'Interloper' unrest penalties. Does it mean that I can have an FM in the type 3/4 alongside a merc general?

Early on I can't afford eastern merc generals so this means all of my characters economic abilities are completely useless which seems really...lame.

Finally, anyone else playing on hard campaign/medium battle how do you deal with a belligerent AS only 20 turns in? I decided not to support Pahlava and remain pro-AS but they declared on me immediately after and have been sending 5-6 unit stacks at me every few turns, means that my army has to keep on chasing them off and so I cannot expand much at all (I've managed to take Kotais, Trapezous and Mtskheta) and my finances are in trouble...Suggestions?