How do you turn the Stolen Lands, savage and unruly, into a stronghold of safety and stability? The king found

How do you turn the Stolen Lands, savage and unruly, into a stronghold of safety and stability? The king found an answer: by tripling or even quadrupling the number of guards! These guards consider themselves something of a privileged class, of course, allowed much more leniency than anyone else, but the ordinary citizens, feeling safe and secure, prefer to just overlook the discrepancy.