Bourbon Empire (A Shot of Bourbon)

The Bourbon Empire, also known as the Franco-Spanish Empire or simply Bourbonia was an empire that existed across Europe, North America and Asia from 1716, following the end of the War of Spanish Succession, until the monarchy was abolished following European and North American revolutions in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The largest empire in world history, at its greatest extent stretching over five continents; Europe, much of North and South America, parts of Asia and Africa, the Bourbon Empire at its peak surpassed the Russian and Mongol empires.

Economically, the empire had a predominantly agricultural and material trading base, with a bulk of wealth and trade dominated by plantations and mines in the American colonies acquired from New Spain and New France, as well as territory acquired by the Bourbon empire itself. Viceroyalties, departments and other territories were controlled by state-level administrators, who were overseen by governors and subsequently by the monarchies of Spain or France, and ultimately by the Emperor. Emperor Ferdinand I implemented many of the systems of governance that were improved upon or persisted after his death, until the eventual dissolution of the empire.