User blog comment:RCM9698/How would you like AGK! to end?/@comment-25132749-20161206183341/@comment-29707934-20161208222325

The Empire would do just fine in the real world. However, just like in the series, it would eventually fall apart. It is also a bit depend on the time period. There have been massive Empire's before that fell apart thanks to bad leadership and corruption, like Ancient Rome (both the Western and later the Eastern part). It also seems likely that the Empire was based on these nations. Today some nations wouldn't like the Empire's cruelty, but if they would act against a country as big as a continent is rather uncertain.

How succesful the Empire would wage war is difficult to predict. They don't have nuclear warheads, so I guess they lose by default against the USA. Just nuke Esdeath's location and you win. If you don't count atomic warfare, it's hard to tell. For example, there are guns in AGK, but capable fighters just dodge regular bullets without much difficulty. Swords are still widly used despite the existance of advanced guns (think Seryu's arsenal). Also people are capable of running at the speed of sound (Akame according to Bols) and shattering stone with wips and things like that. Its technology varies between primitive (horses and carriages for transportation, birds for communication...) to incredibly advanced (once again, Seryu's weapons,experimental drugs and dangerbeasts...). These factors make it impossible to compare the Empire's military power to that of modern day nations. This just doesn't take place in our reality.