*becomes the last empire in history*

*becomes the last empire in history*

Britain has them beat.

>t. nigel bucktoothington

They still have an emperor, there's that.

He's not the emperor of much.

Even Shōwa was a puppet, like many kings in history. At least this one is aware of it.

>*Last Unironic Empire

...

Ahem

>the US is not an empire

>the US is an empire

>brilliant

America sort of is an empire. As we have the Indian Nations and the Compact of Free Association nations. Not to mention the territories.

post the REAL version

More like kingdom.

The British and French held onto their empires until the 1960's, so no.

In its inception, Japan was truly an Empire, a unification of several rice kingdoms on the islands of Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu. They simply kept the designation even after all differences between the ancient domains faded away and they became culturally homogeneous.

An Empire in search of an Emperor

Funny how the definition has changed. With the size of nation states today, they would have been considered empires a few hundred years ago.

British Empire lasted until the handover of Hongkong

*has the most powerless imperial dynasty in history*

Portugal lasted longer imo. They didn't *give back* Macau until 1999

You're literally a Union of states and a federal government is the furthest from Empires' obsession with centralization

*laughs in queen's english*

That would be Saudi Arabia.

Japan was a petty Empire anyway.

So. What exactly does the Imperial Family does?

cringed

>mozambique
what the fuck, they were never part of the empire

Need a legend or that map because I'm pretty sure Vatican is not part o the Commonwealth. (among other weird locations)

empirefags would not acknowledge it even if we believed it was