Space-Filling Empire: Difference between revisions

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When writing alternate timelines or playing around with maps, [[Alternate History|counterfactual]] historians sometimes don't see the point of coming up with lots of different countries, especially for regions they know little about such as Africa, Asia and Latin America. There may also be a need to make sure that the entire earth is [[PVP-Balanced]] in more warlike stories. So what they do is just fill the map with large polities, even when there would be little plausibility to a single empire ruling said territories. This is derisively referred to as a Space Filling Empire.