What Is an Empire?

i'm curious as to if you have a very large state that, like, hypothetically treats everyone equally. I'm not sure that we could find an example of this that has actually existed in history. Ah, these days we see states in positions of tremendous power that don't necessarily formulate that power in the form of raw territorial control. And that's where you get sort of fuzzy extensions of the idea of empire. Conveniently, when talking about video games, most video game empires a fit squarely in the narrow technical definition,. You're conquering your neighbors and painting the map, and that's, yes, that is empire.