Maybe it's because I am about to hit the bed but I barely understood your complains, my bad. However, there's some misunderstanding in this "bad guy-good guy". I think that's against the philosophy of the game. Those are conventional values which, in it's theme, the game is trying to reject (poorly but that's a very complicated goal).
I don't think there are evil or good choices in the game. Some choices are more oriented to protect others while others are there to increase your strength as leader. You are a tyrant anyway, the difference is, if you think of others more or less.
It's like they did in mass effect. Shepard is always the same character. The renegade one will go "beyond" in some situations, ignoring lateral damage caused to other people, but the guy is still saving the galaxy. In the final balance of the universe, Shepard would still be a good guy. Zaton may be more or less compasionate but that doesn't change his main motivation: To protect and expand his family. It's the same no matter what.
