The Imperium of Man is just your typical ailing, stagnant hegemon which you can easily transpose onto any geopolitical situation past or present, although it mostly lends itself to western examples.
>Is the Imperium Athens?
In a way, yes.
>Is the Imperium Rome?
In a way, yes.
>Is the Imperium the HRE?
In a way, yes.
>Is the Imperium tsarist Russia?
In a way, yes.
>Is the Imperium the USA?
In a way, yes.
etc etc etc
No and why is it that Americans always try and make this analogy? The world does not revolve around you
Interview with developers (forgot with who) stated it was designed from "The worst parts of" the Roman Empire, the British Empire, and the Third Reich.
I blame education
OP here, not a burger
Then pull your head out of your arse and stop pandering to the fat cunts.
Maybe you need to spend less time watching tv, and more time travelling.
Clearly
Uh no you don't know enough about the Imperium or the US if you think its a parody of it.
Dude calm down, the thread is about how the setting is parodying the country, im not glorifying it.
In fairness, British maps centre on Europe so it's not unique to the US.
Personally I think the Imperial Guard is more akin to the late Roman Army. Still powerful and unstoppable when in large numbers, but under-funded, under-equipped, crippled by political intrique and massively overstretched.
The US military is massive but doesn't have the budget-tier equipment and huge overstretch that define the guard. The US military in it's modern form has never really had to defend it's nation's borders from an existential threat, it's really only fought expeditionary wars since it's modernisation in World War One.
If anything, the Guard would be far closer to the Red Army facing down Op Barbarossa.