




Happy 300th Anniversary to the Greatest Nation on Earth, The United States of America!
This current setting shown in the post above is the opening part of a broader project called r/TheLastAmerican. The whole project is thought experiment based on the history and claimants of Rome. What I mean by and the inspiration of this whole project is in the question “When did the Roman Empire end?".
-Was it when the West fell in 476 AD when the last Roman emperor got deposed by the Germans?
-Was it when the Eastern Romans, better known as the Byzantine Empire, fell in 1453 AD to the Ottoman Empire?
-But what about claimants that didn't have the governmental follow through, like the Holy Roman Empire only falling on August 6, 1806 AD, through destruction of the title by Austria?
-Or what about the Ottomans' claims of being the new Roman Empire after beating and taking all of the Byzantine Empire's land with the creation of the title 'Kayser-i Rûm'? And it being 'lost' after World War 1?
-Even Russia claimed to be the Third Rome until the Soviet Revolution succeeded in 1917 AD.
-You could argue that a successor of Rome still exists today with the Roman Catholic Church.
And in this line of thought, I figured it would be interesting to follow that same web of successor states long after the Fall with the United States of America, as they occupy that same dominant position in history now as the Roman Empire did then.