Pretty much all he's done is take the worst examples in history cobbled them together and forced it apon an emerging proto state which may have developed along the lines of FO1 given time and events.
All in the aid of thinking he's smarter than everyone and that Tandi was a dictator and that the NCR's people whom are good should be cattled like everyone else under a sterner yoke that only he can offer.
Soooo CL is a hypocritical entity, of silly boys in skirts, and this is from someone who at the moment is taking their side?
The tribes that he formed were pretty much by the sounds of it petty raiders at worst or Khanish, and shady sands in effect, what he did was introduce savagery as a tool, infact making them far more evil and now they will never establish a natural peaceful culture of their own.
The strip I think was planned to be neutral but as it is at the moment of the game within NCR territory ( which the Mojave is ), and the strip alone is a micro state like Monico ruled by House, I doubt it stayed that way for long in development tbh.