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The United States of America is the most powerful empire that has ever existed in human history without even being the absolute largest in terms of overall territory.
No other empire has ever been as capable of so thoroughly enforcing its will across the rest of the planet.
Economically, the United States has continuously remained the world's largest economy since the 1890s and is the only country that has ended every single decade with a larger economy than it started with for the past 150 years.
The US dollar is the primary reserve currency used by most of the world's nations.
America's government is the second longest-continuously run regime in the world, and despite making up just 5% of the contemporary human population, the United States controls around 30% of the entire planet's wealth and produces 20% of all global manufacturing.
And complementing America's tremendous economic might is also her unprecedented military strength.
The US military alone represents nearly 40% of all worldwide military spending.
The U.S. Navy represents half of the worldwide naval fleet.
The United States controls more than 750 overseas military bases across every conceivable theater of the world, enabling America to attack any threat anywhere on the surface of the planet in less than 48 hours.
