Who is the more rightful successor of the Roman Empire, Italy or HRE?

Who is the more rightful successor of the Roman Empire, Italy or HRE?

italy has no real right except the same geographical area

>H>R>E

ERE is the only rightful successor

I'd argue France

>the Trojan refugee Aeneas escape to Italy and found the line of Romans through his son Iulus, the namesake of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

Lichtenstein.

Lel using Virgil as a sauce

>italy has no real right except the same geographical area

lolwut

The thing is, Byzantium/the ERE was the actual Roman Empire. Constantine made Constantinople his capital in the early 4th century. The Roman Empire lost most of its Western territories in the 5th century.

ETE were the only ones with commoners calling themselves Romans hundreds of years after the fall of the WRE.

The third reich.