Did you just compare a text-based game to real life and whether you find it realistic or not?
Anyway, absolutely every state can be taken down and absolutely every state can be taken down very easily. Maybe in a month or so there'll be some guy here saying that if you don't have 1m ships by the end of the third day from the start of the round, then he'll just AR you and blablabla hurrdurr. I guess you see where I'm going with this. But then again, I do understand you. Seeing someone have 50mil inf and 0 ships is very tempting to say the least, although, I think people at the top mostly have a minimum of a couple hundred thousand ships/agm. So uhm, can you explain what do you exactly mean by a balanced state? Where do you draw the line between someone having a decent defence and someone inf hoarding?