User blog comment:Zippertrain85/"Why the Empire Should Prevail Over the Stormcloaks! Part 3 (Economics)" Refuted/@comment-24355185-20131229221102/@comment-24210732-20140103050505

VIttoria Vici says at Elenwen's little party that the EEC tries not to get invovled in politics and trades with countries both within and outside of the Empire. So the EEC being in Skyrim after independance should be canon. Even at the start of the game the EEC have a base in Windhelm which is Stormcloak territory.