Of course, Great Pirates like Conical Chinjao, along with powerful nations like the Flower Country, were definitely exceptions within the World Government.
Ordinary Member States would never dare stand up to the World Government like that. The Navy would have captured their people long ago.
Another reason was that Conical Chinjao had never really done anything evil. His so-called 500 million Beli bounty had mostly been earned through fighting enemy nations.
Just as the World Government supported the countries surrounding the Flower Country, the Flower Country might have found itself outmatched if it fought those nations within the established rules, since the World Government always played favorites. So they might as well disguise themselves as pirates, launch attacks against those nations, and bypass the World Government's restrictions.
That was precisely why Garp had not continued to make things difficult for him after smashing his head flat. In the end, Conical Chinjao had merely been doing things for his country that it could not openly do itself.
"You probably don't know this, but Conical Chinjao can no longer retrieve the treasure from the Treasure Ice Sheet."
"After all, he's become Hornless Dragon, Bell Pepper, now. Naturally, he can no longer open the Treasure Ice Sheet."
"Uh... I had heard that ever since Vice Admiral Garp flattened Conical Chinjao's head, he had become deeply dejected and swore to hate Garp all the way down to his grandson's generation. I didn't expect there to be a reason like this behind it." Tokikake looked utterly bewildered. "From the sound of it, you can open the Treasure Ice Sheet?"
The Flower Country's Treasure Ice Sheet was quite famous. It was said to be so hard that it was practically absurd. Alonso estimated that anyone who wanted to smash it open would need at least Admiral-level