The British empire, partly due to blind patriotism and partly because I love the disparate, diffuse nature of this empire. Far flung nations held together by the thin threads of a merchant's trade routes, vastly different people with equally diverse ways of doing things and living life. I hold romanticized views about empires of all kinds, but in a modern era, with equality being much closer to reality than ever before, perhaps this British empire could help it's constituent nations, rather than explooit them. Butthen again, so could any of these empires with a bit of work.