Orphan never really thought about it in those terms, because her little village did not have much truck with wizards, let alone nobles. Orphan has heard tales about nobles behaving in very dramatic ways, like having their girlfriends or boyfriends tortured to death in amusing ways for amusing reasons, or wiping out somebody's whole family because they didn't bow low enough to a carriage, or noble children being incredibly spoiled and going into screaming tantrums that ends with some villager flogged or dead. But this doesn't make it immediately obvious to an Earthling that this was about deliberate drama generation; Earth nobles were like that too.
Orphan has heard about rich merchants behaving like this, though less so. But that doesn't make it obvious whether the merchants were aping noble behavior or for that matter if it was all lies because obviously everyone hates rich merchants.
The people in Orphan's memories and the bureaucrats she's met in the Facility... well, the phrase that comes to mind is "different planets" and in fact they are.