Griffith is basically creating a sort of socialist utopia which is the only safe haven for humans, existing solely thanks to the precarious balancing act of keeping domesticated demons that need to constantly be slaughtering something, and I wondered if this was tying into the sort of individualism that series presents.

In the Conviction arc, when Guts and the crew fight first-hand against the evils of the corrupt church it had strong anti-clerical vibes, but it also portrayed the people worshipping god expecting a divine savior to rescue them as foolish, and they then died for it. I'm wondering if a similar theme might not arise; people flock to Falconia as a safe haven, but, either by deliberate disaster engineered by Griffith or because of the whims of chaos, the system collapses and thousands more people are slaughtered in the end, as a sort of lesson that you can only rely on your own strength.

My initial takeaway is that it can be seen as reactionary, but then again, expecting a savior to come and solve your problems is also ill advised. Just like seizing the reins of state power as a revolutionary will not magically happen by themselves, someone must step forth and put that effort in on their own initiative instead of waiting patiently for the next Lenin to arise.