Trigger Warning: Border Gore
Over on the Monarchism subreddit user Derpballz posted the
above image with the caption "This is the ideal monarchist
state of affairs. You may not like it, but this is what peak
family, property and tradition preservation looks like."
The Holy Roman Empire may well be the first meme to be
personified as a country. Certainly, Voltaire with his witty
description of it being "neither holy, nor Roman, nor an
empire" had no respect for it. Although, it should be noted he
also described Canada as being "a few acres of snow".
The empire met its end in 1806. This date is weird to think
about as the empire was a quintessential Medieval creation.
It was, after all, still carrying on while the American traitors
were establishing their republic to Canada's south. It ended
only 50 years before the colonies of British North America
got their act together and united.
Unlike its neighbours (and some of its component states) the
HRE was not a centralized state. It was highly decentralized
and only became more so as time went on. As the map makes
clear, it had a lot of microstates within its borders. Of these
only Liechtenstein remains as the sole reminder of the
beautiful mess that once took up most of central Europe.
1356 is a good date to pick to highlight the empire's many
eccentricities. It was at that point too decentralized to expand
its borders and too internally divided to reform. It still held on
to lands from a time of earlier centralized authority and the
office of emperor still held a great deal of prestige in Europe.
There is an argument that the HRE had to exist or no one
would have believed such a thing possible. Indeed, no other
region in the world had such an entity. No one would set out
to create such a circumstance either; it is the result of natural
evolution rather than statutory creation. This map captures
the HRE in all its beautiful ugliness.
Loyally Yours,
A Kisaragi Colour
above image with the caption "This is the ideal monarchist
state of affairs. You may not like it, but this is what peak
family, property and tradition preservation looks like."
The Holy Roman Empire may well be the first meme to be
personified as a country. Certainly, Voltaire with his witty
description of it being "neither holy, nor Roman, nor an
empire" had no respect for it. Although, it should be noted he
also described Canada as being "a few acres of snow".
The empire met its end in 1806. This date is weird to think
about as the empire was a quintessential Medieval creation.
It was, after all, still carrying on while the American traitors
were establishing their republic to Canada's south. It ended
only 50 years before the colonies of British North America
got their act together and united.
Unlike its neighbours (and some of its component states) the
HRE was not a centralized state. It was highly decentralized
and only became more so as time went on. As the map makes
clear, it had a lot of microstates within its borders. Of these
only Liechtenstein remains as the sole reminder of the
beautiful mess that once took up most of central Europe.
1356 is a good date to pick to highlight the empire's many
eccentricities. It was at that point too decentralized to expand
its borders and too internally divided to reform. It still held on
to lands from a time of earlier centralized authority and the
office of emperor still held a great deal of prestige in Europe.
There is an argument that the HRE had to exist or no one
would have believed such a thing possible. Indeed, no other
region in the world had such an entity. No one would set out
to create such a circumstance either; it is the result of natural
evolution rather than statutory creation. This map captures
the HRE in all its beautiful ugliness.
Loyally Yours,
A Kisaragi Colour
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