Collaboration

Today in the regular staff meeting the Diva commented again on how well her staff works together with each other and with others with a spirit of true collaboration. She also commented that this behavior isn't common in the Duchy. We all know that is true, particularly in Black Dot Castle. I was thinking about different uses of the word collaboration. When it's used in the Duchy, everyone assumes it means "working together" hopefully for the common goal of improving the educational life of students. I'm thinking that in the Duchy, collaboration really has the other meaning of (from Wikipedia)

In certain political contexts (such as a state of war) the term collaboration (ism) or collaborator may refer (pejoratively) to individuals who are claimed to have been working with an outside entity against their own societies.

Certainly it seems that the Black Dot Queen believes that everyone is out to diminish her power. Of course, at this point that's completely true. Would it be true if the Black Queen had dealt with others in a spirit of true collaboration in the first place? Actually at this point it seems like the attitude toward the Black Dot Queen is more like "We're busy working here. Could you please go play your nasty power games outside and stop agitating the Dots!"
Wikipedia also lists one of the barriers to collaboration as hoarding knowledge. You mean like GoG being unwilling to share training, email, or much of anything else with peasants?