The RP bar for Empire is pretty low. Imperials constantly attacking people unprovoked in towns, idiot imperials turning on groupmates over simple greed, erratic and in some cases non existant RP all kind of run counter to the "goal" of the Empire, and yet the cabal is rife with them.

One example is a group I recently had. I was with two Imperials, one blade, one oath. They were blatantly discussing OOC things in the group, and just generally being utter non roleplaying ####s. I don't just mean a little OOC either, I'm talking about discussing whatever sports thing was on at the time kind of BS. Between that and them talking about wanting to gank some guy in town, and first checking for a higher up Imperial to see if they were at risk of immediate smackdown, I was pretty disgusted all around.

For the record, this was about a week ago, and both are still imperials, and both been promoted.