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The Holy Roman Empire has been around for a long time now, and it's become kind of hard to imagine how a map of Europe would look without it, but bear with me. The HRE has been plagued with all sorts of trouble recently, ranging from terrorist attacks by the Sixth Lombard League to squabbling among the great families of the Empire regarding the recent succession crisis. (They sure put a lot of emphasis on ancestry despite the Imperial title supposedly being elective :rolleyes:)

The recent Papal elections haven't helped things either; with things as chaotic as they currently are in the Empire, the Papacy has brought up the age old question of investiture once again.

These kinds of problems aren't new for the Empire though. Kind of seems it was pretty much pure luck that the Empire did so well for so long.

So yeah, how do you suppose Europe would look today if it had been dissolved or at least heavily decentralized (or if it never centralized at all, I suppose) at some point? Graubünden-wank? :p
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