Andoran is the only free country in the world. It has not endured long, and no one expects it to. But no one expected it to become free in the first place, and no one expected Hell's grip on Avistan to be scoured away entirely in the space of four days. People have, sometimes, a habit of cynicism, which both Hell and politics inculcate; they have trouble believing that goodness is not weakness, that the Good gods preserve their faithful and protect the innocent and redeem their enemies, that what is free can also be enduring, that fights may be not only righteous but also successful.

Codwin himself has trouble believing those things, these days. Andoran is the only free country in the world and it will take a miracle for her to endure long enough for the first generation born to freedom to grow old enough to vote in free elections. The facts of the matter are these:

Andoran is a geopolitical pariah, and always has been, because they oppose the international slave trade and everyone else makes a great deal of money off it. In a cold and serious analysis it would not have been a battle worth picking, except that it is the purest and sincerest expression of the Good Codwin has ever seen from his people. They are correct, is the thing. They correctly identified a purely mortal evil which rivals that of the lower planes, and decided it was worth risking everything to bring an end to it. When Andoran's diplomatic isolation risked its reconquest by Hell itself they still did it. He warned them of the price and their answer was that they were still ruled by Hell, if they let the fear of it consign them to permitting slavery. 

So Andoran gambled everything, and the thing is that they won the gamble, for Cheliax was destroyed. If he had let the fear of Hell hold them back from interfering in the international slave trade the only thing that would have come of it is that the international slave trade would've gone better, and he would have more allies now. Iomedae's Church would observe to him - has observed to him- that this was the correct trade in expectation even if he got lucky and things worked out. The people of Andoran say that the Good gods were with them, and that they did the right thing and good came of it, and that pragmatism will lead you straight to Hell - 

- which, of course, it usually will! The visible alternatives to being Andoran are being Galt, or being Molthune, and he does not wish Andoran were either of those. It does in fact seem like the people who choose pragmatism choose damnation, as often as not. Cyprian isn't Evil, yet, but -