Look, figuring out who the REAL successor is to the Roman Empire is easy, just look at this handy chart...

Broke: Italy is the successor to the Roman Empire
Woke: Hong Kong is the successor to the Roman Empire Bespoke: We are ALL the successor to the Roman Empire on this blessed day.

And now I want to see Brazilian Carnival dressed legionaries.

Hashkully, the Byzantine Empire never existed. It was always the Eastern Roman Empire.

It was recoined as the Byzantine Empire after the fall of Constantinople from the Ottoman Empire in the 1400s by Renaissance scholars a few hundred years later.

They changed the history books when they wanted to make a distinction from the ancient Roman Empire from the very different but still same Roman Empire that fell not long before them, because the western Romans were considered pagans, and the East were Christians.

It was called the Byzantine Empire because the city that existed before Constantinople, was called Byzantium. Which was the new Roman capital when Emperor Constantine seized power, who was the first Christian Roman Emperor.

Vietnam, got it. Ave Caesar Minh

Hmm, arguably there should be a more direct path to the Papal States. The church had land throughout the migration period, although I don't know enough to say if there was a period where none of it was sovereign.

Anyway, it's clearly East Timor. Or maybe Nero is still alive in Antarctica. /s

Carthage should rule the world.

cool chart

Absurd. Where is the Tsar

Fuck the Romans