Can multiple NPRs of the same race spawn on the same planet? If you were just playing a normal game and exploring the galaxy, would you be able to find the equivalent of insect USA and insect USSR on some swamp planet, orbiting a red dwarf and flying round in space pretending to be from somebodies cold-war-in-space fiction?
If not, that would be really awesome. You could even have more than two factions, you could spawn 4 or 5, with alliances and enemies, so if two factions go to war, others might join in to help friends, or to even out the balance of power to ensure no power bloc wins and becomes too powerful.
Imagine how cool it would be if you were playing a multi faction game on Earth and you run into an NPR with multiple factions. Some Earth factions have similar RP-ed ideologies and want to try team up with certain NPR factions, so other player factions start to panic at this one player faction allying with an NPR and growing too powerful, so they try make alliances or launch a preemptive strike, which brings in some of the previously neutral NPR factions looking for some improvement to their lot on the galactic stage. If the NPR and the player factions all had several colonies that were quite spread out and lots of fleets, it could get quite messy.