How come republic get this timy post stamp rug that will never have any use, and imperials get the huge imperial rug? im seeing a pattern here, imperials get the cool stuff, republic gets the afterthoughts

Huge imperial rug? You realize the Imp rug was scaled down to 1/3 its normal size for the deco. Basically, it got the same scaling the Pub one did, only the Pub one started off smaller (you can see the full sized version in the cartel bizaar). Both look pretty bad and even the Imp one is smaller than just about every rug in the game. While I agree the Pub version is worse, neither are any good.