I say Empire in air quotes because the history of the Holy Roman Empire and the way it operated is incredibly complicated, and calling it an empire is actually fairly controversial, and so is calling it Roman.

我之所以在空氣引號中說帝國，是因為神聖羅馬帝國的歷史和運作方式非常複雜，稱其為帝國其實是相當有爭議的，稱其為羅馬帝國也是如此。

And so is calling it wholly so.

所以叫它完全是這樣。

If you're curious about a little imperial backstory, I encourage you to go check out Wonder Wise video about the subject after this one, since we're doing a collab on it anyway, what would the world look like if the Holy Roman Empire was, for whatever reason, resurrected today?

如果你對帝國的小背景故事很好奇，我鼓勵你在這個視頻之後去看看Wonder Wise關於這個主題的視頻，因為我們反正是在做一個合集，如果神聖羅馬帝國因為某種原因，在今天覆活了，這個世界會是什麼樣子？

If the Empire's borders were recreated at the height of the historical imperial territory in 11 55 then the empire would encompass practically all of modern day Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, while also occupying territory taken from Belgium, France, Italy, Croatia, Poland and Russia, territory from 13 total countries.

如果帝國的邊界在11 55年帝國曆史領土的最高峰時重現，那麼帝國的疆域幾乎包括了現代德國、奧地利、瑞士、捷克、斯洛文尼亞、盧森堡和荷蘭的全部領土，同時還佔據了從比利時、法國、意大利、克羅地亞、波蘭和俄羅斯手中奪取的領土，領土共13個國家。

Figuring out where the capital city of this empire would be is pretty difficult, since the historic empire never actually had one and was usually just based on where the current emperor was residing.

要想知道這個帝國的首都在哪裡是相當困難的，因為歷史上的帝國實際上從來沒有過首都，通常只是根據現任皇帝的居住地來確定。

If the old government of the empire came back into modern day, it would mean that the emperor would be an elected office.

如果帝國的舊政府回到現代，那就意味著皇帝將是一個民選的職位。

Maybe the citizens would elect this person or a group like the Electoral College would.

也許公民會選出這個人，或者像選舉團一樣選出一個團體。

But either way, the 10 biggest cities in the empire would be mostly concentrated in Germany and Italy, with the top five biggest being Munich, Hamburg, Vienna, Rome and Berlin.

但無論是哪種情況，帝國的十大城市大多會集中在德國和意大利，最大的前五名是慕尼黑、漢堡、維也納、羅馬和柏林。

The population of the modern empire would be approximately 215 million people, which is fascinating when you consider what the population of the empire was just a few centuries ago.

現代帝國的人口大約會有2.15億人，當你考慮到幾百年前帝國的人口時，這很吸引人。

In 16 18, before the 30 Years War, the empire was home to just 21 million people, and true, the territory then was smaller than in my modern example.

在16 18年，30年戰爭之前，帝國只有2100萬人口，確實，當時的領土比我現代的例子還要小。

But 21 million people is only about a quarter of modern Germany's population alone.

但2100萬人口僅佔現代德國人口的四分之一左右。

In 16 48 after the 30 years war, the empire's population shrink to just 16 million, meaning that in 30 years of war, nearly one out of every four people died.

在16 48年的30年戰爭後，帝國的人口縮減到只有1600萬，也就是說在30年的戰爭中，幾乎每四個人中就有一個人死亡。

Imagine a similar disaster happening today, and even further.

想象一下，類似的災難在今天發生，甚至更遠。

The largest city 400 years ago in 1600 wasn't even in the top five today.

1600年400年前最大的城市，今天連前五名都沒有。

Prog Prague's population then was just 100,000 people in Vienna's was only 50,000.

普羅格布拉格當時的人口只有10萬人，而維也納的人口只有5萬人。

Vienna today has nearly two million, so the numbers of people living inside the imperial borders has definitely grown in the century since.

如今的維也納已經有近兩百萬人，所以在此後的一個世紀裡，居住在帝國邊境內的人數肯定是增加了。

But what about the demographics of that population?

但這些人的人口結構如何呢？

It's probably changed a little, but it's still dominated by the Germans and the Italians.

可能有一點變化，但還是以德國人和意大利人為主。

Here's the empire's modern ethnic diversity, where you can clearly see the percentage of Germans, Italians and French.

這是帝國現代的民族多樣性，你可以清楚地看到德國人、意大利人和法國人的比例。

And then here's the linguistic diversity for you to compare that to, which looks pretty similar, with the German, Italian and French languages being unsurprisingly the most spoken.

然後這裡是語言的多樣性，你可以對比一下，看起來很相似，德語、意大利語和法語的使用量最多，這是不足為奇的。

While those air probably pretty similar to how they used to be, the religious composition of the modern empire is certainly radically different.

雖然這些空氣可能和過去的情況很相似，但現代帝國的宗教構成肯定是完全不同的。

Christians.

基督徒。

Onley make up 58% of the modern empires.

安利佔現代帝國的58%。

Territory split between 45% Catholics and 13% Protestants.

該地區45%為天主教徒，13%為新教徒。

Non religious people and atheists make up the next largest bloc at a massive 33% of the population, while Muslims make up what is certainly another large increase from hundreds of years ago at 3% of the current population.

非宗教人士和無神論者構成了下一個最大的群體，占人口的33%，而穆斯林佔目前人口的3%，這無疑是比幾百年前又一次大幅增加。

The modern Holy Roman Empire would also have an enormous economy with a nominal GDP of $9.232 trillion mostly going toe wealthy areas like Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and northern Italy.

現代神聖羅馬帝國的經濟也會非常龐大，名義GDP為9.232萬億美元，大部分流向德國、荷蘭、比利時和意大利北部等富裕地區。

This makes the empire the third largest economy in the world, beating out Japan but staying just behind China.

這使得帝國成為世界第三大經濟體，超過了日本，但僅停留在中國之後。

This huge economy and population also means the imperial military would be quite formidable, with a budget of $109 billion in an active force of 694,000 soldiers with an additional million in reserves.

這龐大的經濟和人口也意味著帝國的軍隊將相當強大，現役軍人69.4萬人，預算1090億美元，另外還有100萬預備役軍人。

That's the world's sixth largest standing army, ahead of South Korea and the third largest budget.

那是世界第六大常備軍，排在韓國之前，也是第三大預算。

But that budget is only about half of what the current European Union combined spent on defense.

但這一預算只有目前歐盟國防開支總和的一半左右。

About $200 billion Overall, the Holy Roman Empire in the modern world would be an absolute powerhouse.

約2000億美元 總體來說，現代世界的神聖羅馬帝國將是一個絕對的強國。

It would dominate European politics, and with an economy close in size to China's in a population larger than Russia, it could have aspirations of achieving global superpower status.

它將主導歐洲政治，而且在人口比俄羅斯多的情況下，經濟規模與中國接近，它可能有實現全球超級大國地位的願望。

Like I mentioned near the beginning of this video, if you're curious to learn more about the origins and history of the entire historical Holy Roman Empire.

就像我在這段視頻的開頭附近提到的，如果你很想了解更多關於整個歷史上神聖羅馬帝國的起源和歷史。

I encourage you to go check out my friend Wonder Wise video on that subject.

我鼓勵你去看看我的朋友妙智關於這個問題的視頻。

Next.

下一個

Thanks for watching, and I'll see you later on this week for the regularly uploaded real life lower video next.

謝謝大家的觀看，接下來我們本週晚些時候定期上傳的真人下部視頻再見。