What stage is your setting in?

Literally WHAT empires have gone through this process, and do they actually outnumber those fallen empires that didn't?

America

I honestly can't think of one. Even the Roman Empire doesn't really follow it.

>It's kind of funny to me how overall this chart seems to apply best to European nations and their colonies starting roughly around the Age of Exploration.

Applies to Empires in general, like the Ottoman empire, that had soyboy sultans that let their mommies rule for them.

Very funny.

Anyone can draw sweeping generalizations about how 'every culture did this an then collapsed!' and tie it to the modern world. Same reason why people continue to believe that the bible predicts the end of the world despite it being wrong every single time.

You're dumb as a brick.

That means it's in it's Decline to Pioneer stage.

Humanity has entered the age of decadence.

>Humanity ascends to post scarcity virtualization
>Returns millions of years later in physical prosthetics just to fuck with the new inhabitants of the milky way out of sheer boredom.

It's set in post-Soviet Balcans, so I'm pretty sure it's in constant state of decline.
Just when you think things can't get any worse, they inevitably do.

Yeah, those weren't much better.
Cute, though. Have a (you) for the half-effort.