User blog comment:The Dark Lord of the Sith/Star Wars: The Next Generation/@comment-25641444-20150701210014/@comment-25641444-20150702151956

Well, the Foundation one wasn't like the post-Endor Empire, as in, it did not begin fragmenting into different pieces (at least not until systems in the Periphery, that universe's equivalent of the Outer Rim, began declaring independence).

Originally, it was just that every part of the government was dominated by nobles, who held every important post, while the Emperor was basically a teenager who was kept in the dark about most things by these aristocrats.

Eventually, the Foundation Empire began crumbling like the post-Endor Empire, but originally it remained intact, just under the rule of aristocrats and a weak Emperor.