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We've discussed Romano-wank several times before, and in doing so, I've always had a couple of key objections to the idea- firstly, that Germania and the lands beyond it were fundamentally too backward for any process of Romanisation be able to take place in the first century AD, and secondly that any hyper-large Rome would experience overstretch and civil war. All of my objections there hold true to any story that attempts to have a giant Rome with a POD in the time of the Principate or before.

But- what if Roman expansion is able to take place at a later date? Say, the fourth century, when Rome's neighbouring states are achieving a degree of development and centralisation comparable to Gaul and Spain immediately prior to Roman conquest? Furthermore, what if Roman conquest is achieved by means of culture and religion, not strength of arms?

This is the world of a hypothetical maximal Roman world (note, not Roman Empire), in the Year of Our Lord 850.

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