Take the Anderfels, for example. Two Blights have begun inside that countrie's borders which has turned most of the nation's territory into a desert barely capable of supporting life.
On the other hand, the Free Marches are some of the most fertile lands and together, they produce more than half of the entire food of the continent. Food that they sell as exports to other countries like the Anderfels. Now, imagine just how many trade routes pass within Orlesian borders. Imagine what happens to these trade routes while you're "destroying Orlais".
Yep, the people of the Anderfels starve because of a war they have no involvment in.
Nevermind that if Orlais were to be destroyed, there would be a war between all countries in order to pick the spoils. Seriously, you can't envision how the destruction of an entire country would hurt people?
Is this the same Chantry that comissioned a study on the organs of the reanimated dead? It's a strange thing they didn't prevent the Human Noble from receiving a lesson in history by a human scholar in DAO since they are so interested in censoring knowledge.
Even if we were to accept the Chantry censors anything; of which we have no evidence; burning the only two universities in Thedas is not the way to educate the masses.
1)Anderfels was a dessert barely capable of supporting life before Ancient Tevinter
2)but they does not trade food and Free Marshes have city-states kingdoms what most of the Thedas have in south and east then Blight was over and Hessarian die...some of them become Rivain, some Free Marshes, Orlais, Antiva..so this trade routes have no real influence of 95% Thedas peoples..Thedas does not have a mass trades exept lyrium, vines and clothes...but this is not a really a mass trades and most of those who have it nobles and rich peoples
3)and who will do this and who can do?...elves wil have their lands, some will have Nevarra..some barbarians like avvar...and this all..noone have interests in those lands since Ancient Tevinter who still does not really controll them as Ferelden
4)again the only real education and science have Tevinter, Nevarra, Dwarfs, Dalish...Orlais and other Andrastians kingdoms have it only in Chantry Circles and this is saved and censored by Orlais Chantry Ancient Tevinter knoledges...Orlais Chantry does not have any real education('history'->religion storys have all Thedas nation) and not have any sciense
5)i know about 1 Celine university in Orlais capital for wealthy nobles who exist only 15 years and do nothing in education and science