The truth is that, though Fiji is indeed one country, it is not one people.
Mr Mara's flight from Fiji is a further sign of the growing breach between Commodore Bainimarama and the Mara dynasty.
Fiji is the largest and most developed economy in the South Pacific, with relatively low inflation (3%) and low interest rates.
Fiji is now run by an elected coalition government dominated by the nationalist Fijian United Party of the Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase.
Protracted though the judicial process may be, Fiji is finally settling some important scores with those who sought to establish an ethnic supremacist state in the midst of the South Pacific four years ago.
It also happens that Tonga's chief justice, Michael Scott, a former Fiji high-court judge and himself a refugee from Fiji's coup, is an arch-opponent of Fiji's chief justice, Anthony Gates, controversially appointed in the wake of the Bainimarama takeover.
He is set to face Scotland for Fiji on Saturday, although he is set to miss later games against Ireland and Romania as his wife is expecting a child.
Fiji's army is a professional one, with a good reputation for peacekeeping in troublespots around the world.
He expects all three games to sell-out, and is hopeful Fiji's visit to the Millennium Stadium on 11 November would follow suit.
The most likely outcome is that Fiji will face fresh elections soon.
But no matter where you are in Fiji, the world's largest ocean is nearby.
Fiji's coastal capital, Suva, is casual but poor by Western standards.
His apparent immunity from arrest, if not from warning shots by checkpoint guards, is because he has considerable support in Fiji's divided society.
It is the Gulf, but not as you know it: otherworldly Musandam is not a place for those wanting fusion food and FIJI Water, fine hotels or a Lamborghini showroom.
Like Satala, who has been a star of Fiji's world renowned seven-a-side team, Rokoduguni is also an expert of that version of rugby which relies more on speed and agility than the traditional 15-a-side game.
It is hoped a deal with the Oceania National Olympic Committees, which include Fiji and Palau, will also take in the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
Mercer is alleged to have taken money from a fake firm professing to work for the government of Fiji.
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