The British Empire is the most

successful start-up

in the world controlling a quarter of all territory and just under that fraction of all humans.

I’m not so bullish on those numbers, low growth potential

EXACTLY

Once you control the world, where do you go from there? And so power retreats further into financial centers to

make money off of money

while the rest of us are left to fight over invisible lines in the sand and equally irrelevant invisible people in the sky.

wait- what was the mongol religion? don’t think we got to that part, too busy being metal af

Oh, they just believed in the

Great Sky God

sounds a little lazy but I’ll take it

It was actually pretty tolerant.

no inter-office marches of madness?

Nope. Just death and trade. Make money or die trying. Or die a lot of other ways.