{"id":240340,"date":"2026-07-05T19:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T00:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/sci-fi-empires-ranked-by-how-absurdly-huge-they-are"},"modified":"2026-07-05T19:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T00:07:18","slug":"sci-fi-empires-ranked-by-how-absurdly-huge-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/sci-fi-empires-ranked-by-how-absurdly-huge-they-are","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Fi Empires Ranked by How Absurdly Huge They Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4_Ruv70D8Z0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this video I\u2019m ranking of the biggest empires, civilisations and cosmic powers in science fiction. We\u2019re comparing territory, population, military reach, longevity and control to ask one ridiculous question: what is the largest empire in sci-fi? A question that quickly got out of hand.<\/p>\n<p>Empire ranking spreadsheet for nerds: <a href=\"https:\/\/shortlink.uk\/1vfQm\">https:\/\/shortlink.uk\/1vfQm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude80\ud83d\ude80My new sci-fi book, Tao Solandis, is out now! \ud83d\udcd6<\/p>\n<p>Links to all the ways you can order \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/scifiodyssey\">https:\/\/linktr.ee\/scifiodyssey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out these Tao Solandis reviews:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video I\u2019m ranking of the biggest empires, civilisations and cosmic powers in science fiction. We\u2019re comparing territory, population, military reach, longevity and control to ask one ridiculous question: what is the largest empire in sci-fi? A question that quickly got out of hand. Empire ranking spreadsheet for nerds: https:\/\/shortlink.uk\/1vfQm. \ud83d\ude80\ud83d\ude80My new sci-fi book, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}