I'm talking about their in-canon assessments. Suna didn't need to rely on them as much as they had gold, so it had a pretty stable source of income, it was just severely lacking in resources. It was given fertile land by the leaf to account for this.False. Suna needed to rely on trade with both in order to sustain itself, even outright money given by the leaf. Suna isn’t on par with either
While in canon they were racked with civil war, in this AU, the Yuki kept more of a sustained state. This also ended most of the bloodline purging and most of the damage the civil war caused, limiting casualties, destruction, and thus workforce and efficiency
The civil wars preempted the bloodline purges, its because the bloodlines were so effective in the civil wars that they were feared and purged. Besides, the Yuki can't man all of the Land of Water's Islands. I digress though, in that case, you're gonna need to give me an economic run-down for AU Land of Water.