I don't think I can speak for everyone in the Pact, but it's not supposed to be a "prestige" organization so much as a place for nations who IC would have no inclination or reason to join the DU or NPTO. It's hypocritical and petty just like everyone else - for all its talk of national sovereignty, the Pact has no problem with Imperium colonizing Rhuvanland by force, or
meddling in an internal dispute in Vazos (though the latter isn't well known IC yet, and is kind of inactive OOC).
I think the Pact is more concerned with enriching its own members monetarily as well as politically at any expense. The ideology about Eastern imperialism is widely believed among its member states, in a sense, but the Pact itself is probably more about getting a piece of the pie that everyone has felt they were denied due to their absence from other organizations.
Of the nations in the Pact, only Plembobria could really be classified as a nation with a high
HDI. Imperium is powerful in many ways, but (and he could feel free to correct me) not in a way that would make it a very respected country IRL. McMasterdonia is a complete mess IC, Vazos is a hermit kingdom, Myroria is a rural country with a low population, and if Funkadelia RPed it'd probably be like Nigeria. The Novrith Pact, from the outside, probably looks more like the
Collective Security Treaty Organization than NATO, or even the Warsaw Pact. So I don't think it should necessarily be viewed IC as an organization that has a ton of IC prestige.