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Fedelede wrote: Vexacus wrote: the UK lost its Empire, I think

He doesn't mean the UK losing its empire I think, he means the definition of "empire". An Empire just has to have an emperor; the UK, for example, IIRC was an empire because the king was Emperor of India. I had no idea Japan was still technically an Empire. You learn something new every day