It's not at all like the big and glassy evil empire.
Three angels avatared to be the children of a king who ruled a big empire.
"We're using their competitive juices to drive people to build bigger empires," he said.
Your people used to have a big empire, kid, did you know that?
That is, imperialist countries always aim to create a bigger empire.
Like you said, it's a big empire, and most of those dukes would have a long way to march, or ride.
The difference for them, as opposed to most people is that they're sitting on a big empire.
"If the opportunity presents itself, he'll build as big an empire as he can."
Trianon is one of the biggest industrial empires in France.
America is an empire, the biggest empire in terms of its cultural influence.