Talk:Euro Britannia/@comment-24035756-20200620160056/@comment-72.168.128.142-20200714200318

The later OVAs imply Russia+territories have been under Britannian control for a long time, possibly upwards of a hundred years (if you're looking for signs there's that WW1-esque vision CC had in season 1; you could fanwank that as Russia's conquest). Not to mention Britannian nobles have some rather absurd autonomy, to the point of being a noteworthy hindrance to emperor Lelouch. Combine those two and you may be able to create a tributary empire which culturally assimilated Russia enough to be another country, while independent enough to feel apart from the homeland. Plus, we don't know how widespread public support was for the independence attempt; many nobles seem to be on board with the idea out of fear, but the common folk were utterly ignored. They could either just not care (what'd be the difference between Euro-Brits and homeland Brits opppressing them?), or see it as a chance to launch an uprising.

Note how many logic leaps and mental hoop jumping were needed to achieve this conclusion. Its easier to think of Akito as a separate universe from the main series for this reason; hell, even the logistics and politics of Russia's assimilation would be way bigger and far reaching than japan's conquest.