>destroy rome >LARP as romans 500 years later explain

>>2595230
>country
It was basically an ANCAP wasteland

It's really more like they showed up to a party while it was already winding down, thought "that was a cool party" and then tried to throw their own party like it later on.

Like, after the Crisis of the Third Century, Rome was basically the living dead.

>>2595235
Why did the HRE call themselves "romans" though

what was their actual reason for doing so, I'm sure there's some historical founding document that explains why they chose the word "roman"

We should all agree the real destruction of Rome came with Justinian's attempt to conquer the Italian peninsula

>>2595242
Because the Roman Catholic Church was based in Rome, and the HRE was a confederation of all the states that had allegiance to the pope.

>>2595258
That's not so bad then, I don't know why people play it off as "roman" as in "TRIARII" and not "roman" as in "roman catholic church"