a nation state in the post-apocalypse resembling Rome
The Roman Empire existed for 1400 years (longer, if you toss in the Eastern Empire) and at every point people bemoaned the looming apocalypse.
Yet Rome's corruption, collapse, and dismembering did not bring about the End of Days. Neither did it spell the end of the city that bares its name. Nor the idea of Rome - a civilization spanning trade empire, built on the slave labor of vassal states - which echoed into the colonial era and the modern neoliberal one.
The Roman Empire existed for 1400 years (longer, if you toss in the Eastern Empire) and at every point people bemoaned the looming apocalypse.
Yet Rome's corruption, collapse, and dismembering did not bring about the End of Days. Neither did it spell the end of the city that bares its name. Nor the idea of Rome - a civilization spanning trade empire, built on the slave labor of vassal states - which echoed into the colonial era and the modern neoliberal one.
Rome's demise has been greatly exaggerated.
that's as may be but he was making a new vegas reference
Oh. Derp.
No that was the best response to a new vegas reference I have ever seen