Best Candidate for the Heir To Rome (MODERN)

What Modern Nation is the Best Candidate for the Heir to Rome?

  • Greece

    Votes: 3 9.7%
  • Turkey

    Votes: 2 6.5%
  • Russia

    Votes: 5 16.1%
  • Italy

    Votes: 10 32.3%
  • Germany

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • USA

    Votes: 5 16.1%
  • The Papal State

    Votes: 6 19.4%

  • Total voters
    31
I know that some of these are pretty ridiculous, but I wanted to include pretty much anyone I could think of with a vague claim off the top of my head. Have fun! :closedeyesmile:
 
Russia is the only country on the list with a non-zero possibility of the restoration of a monarchy claiming spiritual descent from the Roman emperors. Peter the Great was awarded the title of Emperor of All Russia "in the manner of the Roman Senate." The Holy See is the only other state that has a reasonable claim, but the Pope was never significant secular leader in the late Empire and the thought of calling a small fortress in Rome the Heir to Rome is disturbing.

The modern Hellenic Republic and the Republic of Turkey both descend from the remains of the Ottoman Empire, which destroyed the last extant remnant of the Roman Empire at Constantinople in 1453. The line of Kings of Italy follows from Odoacer (not genealogically), who overthrew the last Western Roman Emperor in 410 AD. The Empire of Germany, of which the FRG can be considered a distant descendant, stems from the North German Confederation and the Kings of Prussia, who in turn are ultimately descendants of the Grand Masters of the Teutonic Order, and not from the Holy Roman Emperors, who held to best claim to the title of "Heir to Rome" in Europe. The United States has only some sort of spiritual founding myth of Roman influence shoehorned into its history. Of these four, Germany likely holds the best claim to the title, but it is tenuous at best.

Of course, the actual present-day Heir to Rome is the Marble King under the Golden Gate.
 
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A conquering empire with a huge slave population that ultimately imposed a monotheistic religion upon it's subjects, and regularly engaged in gruesome public executions?

ISIS.

;)
 

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Italy. It controls Rome which is pretty important for anyone claiming to be the Roman Empire to have. You only need to change the flag, country name and bring back a ceremonial Roman Emperor. Theoretically we could have the Roman Empire back tomorrow if the Italian government made a few cosmetic changes to their country.
 
Hehe. Considering that Finland is Protestant by now, how about another country which is on the territory of the former Russian empire, but not anymore nowadays: Lithuania?

At least they've got a pretty damn good potential place of worship:

Colina_de_las_Cruces,_Lituania,_2012-08-09,_DD_12.JPG
 
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