Siberia Prime

Strengths

 * 1) Ingrained Resilience: Siberians are no strangers to expensive struggles that span generations. Struggles against the Covenant, against their homeworld's climate, even against each other. Their culture prizes adaptability and long-term dedication.
 * 2) Friends In Low Places the Siberian government has always had connections with the criminal underworld, connections that only got stronger after the fall of Siberia Prime. Many soldiers and state security personnel left the service of their government to work as mercenaries and criminal enforcers, though few cut ties completely. Siberia Prime's relationship with ONI is similarly complicated.

Weaknesses

 * 1) Cat's In The Cradle: Siberia Prime had the most comprehensive, successful evacuation plan of any major colony. The particulars of this evacuation plan meant that the vast majority of the evacuees were minors. The demographics of the Siberian survivors skews younger, and a generation is coming to age that is disaffected with their government and disconnected from the culture that produced them.
 * 2) Tarnished Legitimacy: The government of Siberia Prime staked its future on successfully repelling a Covenant invasion, an act that was supposed to turn the tide of the war. After the failure and exile, the GIE has lost the loyalty of its military and its citizenry, and is struggling to reassert its power.