The South PacificBoard

In canonicity the Fallout universe has a bit of both worlds but the NCR is extremely under-equipped, undermanned and outgunned by the Legion in most cases and the NCR has the worst resource death of the series after President Kimball sent an entire generation of Californians to die for the Mojave Wasteland and the Dam, as Ranger Hanlon says: 'Patrol the whole length of the Colorado for hundreds of miles? Holding this dam. It'll be the death of us.' and he's the leader of the NCR Rangers, the NCR's most elite sniper group after First Recon and the NCR is spread too thin trying to cover the entire Colorado and the Mojave while having no resources to even keep it up as Rangers direly need support with side quests, they're undermanned and while they're a 'republic' the NCR's own Senators compromise it's own Constitution by hiring mercenaries to harass the mutants of Jacobstown, a town that would normally be seen as "equal" under NCR law but under lore of NCR the mutant population faces racial discrimination and attacks. NCR is rife with corruption, court cases take years to be handled according to again, Ranger Hanlon and another veteran Ranger, Ranger Ghost of Mojave Outpost is shocked when the Courier reveals to her that the Legion slaughtered all of Nipton and are that far out West. NCR veterans know they are boned unless a permanent change happens with Kimball and his imperialistic "we will annex all" whether towns agree or not meaning if you're a part of the NCR as what they consider in "core territory" good luck bucko, you ain't getting anything despite all your tax money going to the NCR!