>>No empire means chaos, world war, all against all. I think it will be more like a dozen+ regional powers scattered all over the world. And their economies ti

>>No empire means chaos, world war, all against all. I think it will be more like a dozen+ regional powers scattered all over the world. And their economies tied up through a mesh of trade and military ties/enmities. Only people who really suffer from the collapse of an empire is the citizens of that empire. Everybody else just moves on.