Explorer121

To everyone who has a problem with the address, go to your map app, type the name of a street (maybe your own), and put a comma. Enjoy

As cameras and communication technology have gotten better, basically since the invention of radio, this kind of extremist "capitalism" has grown rarer and rarer. It's not gone, but most of it is done by state actors now. The autocratic regimes are the worst in terms of scale, but the representative governments do it too in black programs and with corrupt representatives' cooperation. Of course, Author can set up his universe as he pleases so it's just an observation about our own.

I looked it up since I was curious, but it seems the last addition to the British empire was in 1895. After that it was a steady decline without territorial expansion, just carving up the colonies and turning them into countries, dominions, and protectorates. It looks like she had nothing to do with colonialism except managing it and ending it.

... except for theocracies, isn't that all nations?

Then remember the first time you remembered them and keep that, never give up!