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The Order of Chaladon

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Lord Dick Tim:
Ok so I wasn't completely off my rocker on my early guess for this faction.
One of the things that stuck out for me are the city states.  With Chaladon being a collection of independent entities that follow a similar creed there is room for different parts of Chaladon advancing their enterprises in largely different ways.
Additionally one of the hurdles of any humanitarian project or organization, as the Chaladonians seem to favor as a way of life, is coming to terms with that idea that fractured small entity populations will and can attack you despite your good intentions.  This could lead to the militarization of their scientific and trade expeditions. 
It leaves it open for individual Chaladons to make aggressive take overs of territories, that would later become new independent city states that follow the national identified creed.

Byron Cavendish:
Sorry, I don't see it. Everything they do seems to have a purpose towards betterment of their own society, and by extension humanity as a whole. Aggression would likely be a last resort. The purpose of the city-states is most likely a simple matter of better control over each area's immediate infrastructure. A society of their description works best in small communities.

HamsterIV:
Even if Chaladon was a perfect utopia there would still be reason for conflict. Chaledon has food. The other factions want food. Chaledon wants for nothing so they have no desire to trade for food. The other factions decide to trade "not bombing your homes" for food. The Chaledon are forced to militarize from a population that is superior in size, but inferior in fighting skill and tradition.

My speculation is that Chaledon would field ships, weapons, and tactics that initially look like identical copies of the ships and weapons of those invading them. However they would be slightly different in worse ways, as Chaledon engineers and naval tacticians miss the point of the original design.

Gatling guns that shoot explosive rockets
A Lumberjack with a telescopic sight
Flares that pass right through clouds
A ship with 5 forward facing light guns that are slightly offset so that it can't have more than two mercs on a single target (yeah I went there)
Formations that resemble lotuses and birds of prey but do nothing to maximize firepower at the point of initial contact

Helios.:
here's what we know about chaledon:
they largely are untouched by the environmental catastrophes that made much of the world barren (although from teh sounds of it, people havn't looked at the map carefully, as there are definitely a few forests in there.) despite the limited recovery, they undoubtedly have the most natural resources around.
because they were largely unaffected, they don't have super cool old-timey reverse-engineered airships and stuff; they diddnt have airhips untill a barony airship visited, and they reverse engineered the ship and started making their own much later than everyone else. this means that their ships are largely different. the 'science int eh morning, tend the land in the afternoon' strategy we have been told is a mainstay of at least some significant percentage of the chaledonian population for generations means that their technology might NOT be based on the remains of the old world, and have genuinely new technology. when the airships started arriving, and the chaledonians started making their own, the synthesis of old and new might make some really wild unique ships, the squid we know is one, and if you watched the vidios from pax, you see another (it kinda looks like a oversized squid with feathers on it, it's gorgeous.) 
as others have said, having the resources they do, they will have to protect it from attack, either economically or militarily. the undersell/oversell method of ensuring they have friends wehn they need them is a really cool idea.  im imagining that the chaledonians and the mercantile guild would have a lot to gain from cooperation, and the movement of food and natural resources to the freezing, barren, technology-rich anglean republic and technological advances back might be a mainstay operation of the mercantile guild, and put the three of them at odds with the arashi who i would think would be glad to attack both directions of that traffic coming through the desert. the yeshans and baronies would hate this as well because it allows the angleans to operate  indefinitely without being hugely hindered by their more or less lack of excellent farming space. the MG benefits because the MAIN raiders of the GOIO map are now reliant on them for food, and so would be crazy to attack their trade caravans.
the chaledonian cultural isolationism suits the MG fine, better that they sell it to the MG instead of trying to create their own trade empire.
the ships we know the chaledonians have are fast and agile, allowing them to counter the more static ships that are more typical of the fjord baronies: any sniping spire pilot can tell you a fiery squid is a nightmare... defending the shores of the chaledonian island with a fleet of small nimble interceptors avoiding the largest ships' heavy guns but still being large enough to shoot down the airplanes of the fjord baronies makes a lot of sense.
this raises a important issue with the ship requirements of trade. to trade you need a lot of deck space to PUT all the stuff you have, the squid has no deck space to speak of, and so its easy to see why they wouldnt be the best traders and rely more on teh MG to do that for them, having mobulas

Clockeye:
One thing that I think might be important about them, is their connection to the nature itself.
they are thankfull not to be starving like the rest, and it's clearly said not to "take too much" from nature itself.
Do you think their ships, weapons, buildings and all that should be also decorated and constructed in a way to get them
closer to the nature itself? You've mentioned a feather-decorated bigsquid. Maybe that is their thing?
They would try to merge with the nature as much as they can, planting plants whenever they can, taking care of the animals and
looking at other fractions with a bit outrage, seeing as their heavy, steel plated ships contract with natural beauty and harmony.

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