User blog comment:Draevan13/Poll: United or Divided Tamriel?/@comment-10207438-20131115184849/@comment-17114085-20131117173746

The Council isn't like that, it is controlled by 3 races(in ME1) and 4 races (in ME2-3). Because of this they don't really care much for the other races. The Council acts alot like the Empire did, in ME1 they get their whole fleet to protect the citadel(center of power) much like the Legions protected mostly Cyrodiil.