Question: Viable Dead Dominion Strategy?

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I was toying around with LA Pythium and noted their many heretics.

The idea is this: you have a bad dominion and your enemy has a great dominion, so you take your heretics in and keep the dominion at 0 and keep the enemy's good scales.

Now, as I understand it if you own a province and have no enemy dominion then you get the effects of good scales. Is this true at 0 dominion? I know that magic scales and luck scales effect your province regardless of whose dominion own it, but other scales don't

I was wondering if anyone knew this offhand since testing is a bit of a chore.