you got fucking kings, Torygg, Helseth, living gods of the Tribunal.... under an "Emperor"? who puts some garrisons around but does.... what exactly?
theres an "East Empire Trading Company"? whats that do?
it kinda seems like a holy roman empire, kinda seems like a regular roman empire. they've got knights, dukes, but a Legion...
yes i know the answer is technically "these jackoffs just made it up as they went" and don't care a lick about political theory but this is exactly the kind of excercise that makes fun speculative historiography
i think i like gesturing more along lines of Holy Roman than normal roman, despite the aesthetic.
firstly its high fantasy so feudalism is the economic system. there are takes that characterize late Roman economics as feudal, but i personally am a Peter Brown follower so the romans weren't really doing feudalism till the 6-7th century. and even then weren't quite doing it (this will upset the romanogenesis crowd)
and while that fills in some blanks im still quite confused on the divisions of powers, legal system, political organization... most everything really