Talk:Holy Britannian Empire/@comment-2602:306:3780:2CA0:1512:8C94:1236:FC0D-20180922041027

It should be noted, that nations with strong Social Darwinism themes, have a tendency to struggle in existence. The constant infighting would undoubtedly collapse the country eventually.

Which has happened before. Even if it didn't stagnation rather than development would occur. This can be seen clearly in Japan in the Inter-War Period of 1919-1939. At the time, Japan suffered Government by Assassination. This lead to Japan becoming stunted in its development.

Japan did lead in a number of developments in the world. But their applications came into types:

1) Beyond their capability to actually support, such as Battleships of the Fuso-class, Ise-class, and Yamato-class which were too big and technologically developed for Japan to actually build and maintain.

2) Incomplete, such as the use of Massed Air Strikes and Carrier Formations, which is a bit ironic given that Japan emphasized individual quality over quantity. This one is ironic in that Japan's ability to cripple the US Navy not only at Pearl Harbor, but during the run up to the Battle of the Coral Sea, used Massed Air Strikes. Yet Japan, despite knowing the ins and outs and writing the book on both Massed Air Strikes and Carrier Formations, failed inexplictably to study how to defend against such both. Which is why at Coral Sea, it was a draw, at Midway an utter disaster, and before the war was over, the only Carriers left to Japan were either their oldest Carriers or their incomplete newest Carriers without a single plane to operate off either as the cherry on top!

I find it hard that Britannia, with that kind of set up, would not stagnate then collapse. It wouldn't be the first time that such a nation under went drastic collapse. It may not have been a short life, look at Eastern Roman Empire, later the Byzantine Empire.

And even in China during the Three Kingdoms Period, the last, Shu, was in such internal disarray that there was nothing the Shu Army could do to win.

Plus, there is the Qing Empire. They were so internally disjointed at times, that in the First Sino-Japanese War, the larger Qing suffered a smack down, beat down because of internal corruption and disorganization, including assassinating leaders.