No MICs in any way?

Hmm, I am playing a Sweboz campaign, Hard difficulty in 235 B.C., and I am on a warfront with Rome stretching from the Helvetii territories to the Getai territories.
They took 5 towns and held them for at least 10 years before I made a rather crafty assault on Bononia, and when I took their frontier towns, I found they had focused solely on regional MIC buildings all the way to Patavium - Which they had held for 30 years.

There were some economical buildings, but no factional MICs at all.
I have the Balancing mod, and Darth formations.