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A state cannot exist without boyars. In any state. And boyars exist in any state. In any.

In a "slave-owning," "feudal," "early capitalist," "late capitalist," "post-capitalist," or "socialist" state, or any other. They are just called and dressed differently, but not only does their essence as boyars remain unchanged, but the boyars of different nations also recognize each other without fail. At the same time, boyars are boyars precisely because they understand that they can remain boyars only as long as the state exists. "Boyarstvo" makes sense only and exclusively in a state context.

If you isolate a conditional boyar with his "estate" into a separate state, neither he nor his estate will be able to survive in this capacity. And precisely in order to "continue to exist," he will strive to immediately either return to the old state or join a new state directly, or at least he will be forced to "end up" (he himself will strive for this) in the "sphere of influence" of a state (any state, even the first one he encounters), which alone can guarantee the very existence of our boyar, "his life and his people."

For this reason, boyars "of the same blood and the same faith" try to stick together. "In a pack." But since they are ambitious people who know their own worth and know what "power" is, not from fiction films, the pack turns out to be like a pack of wolves. A pack of wolves, where each wolf knows not only that he is a wolf, but that the other members of the pack are exactly the same wolves. With exactly the same eyes, ears, and teeth.