Perfect monarchies don't exi-

>>2290685
Europe has the strongest aesthetics.

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>>2290685
French clay.

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They will never understand, OP. Most people on /his/ left-wing students at college whose only prospect of a good job is at civil service. They idolize France for having build a massive bureaucracy, and hate the Holy Roman Empire for being a descentralized realm ruled by law, custom and traditional rights, instead of bureaucrats in a centralized government authority.

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Like a phoenix, Holy Roman Empire raises from the ashes, in a new form

>>2291013
And a late feudal system more corrupt than any bureaucracy ever.

But that doesn't mean I disagree with you; imho if the locals had been a little more uppity and had more frequently been able to impress their will upon their rulers, it may have been clearly superior.

As it is, both systems were pretty meh to live in. But in hindsight the empire was nicer. Also I come from a free imperial city, so how could I not be biased.

>>2290685
success breed jealousy

>>2291054
wouldn't even mind tbf