Eternal Imperium

[Furious Mental]

Actually the way the development of central authority worked in England is that for 300 years after Germanic settlement there was a heptarchy with zero progress towards a centralised government, then the Danes conquered everything except Wessex, and then in a few decades the West Saxon kings reconquered the country and the country was united under a single regime. It says alot about what a series of dynamic leaders can achieve.