from Brussels", and has since entered the eurosceptic lexicon. Tony Blair argued in 2000 that he welcomed an EU as a "superpower, not a superstate". In a 2022 study, Alasdair Roberts argues that superstates should be construed as hybrid forms of political organization: "Every superstate carries the burdens of statehood, that is, the duties of intensive governance and respect for human rights that are carried by all modern states. But superstates also carry the burdens of empire, principally the burden of holding together a large and diverse population spread across a vast territory. Superstates are distinguished from ordinary states by problems of governance that are intensified by scale, diversity, and complexity". In this view, a superstate need not be highly centralized, just as some empires were not highly centralized. Thus is it possible to describe the European Union as a superstate without conceding that is a "centralized, unitary leviathan". Fictional superstates Atlantic Federation (Gundam anime metaseries) The Alliance for Democracy in The Domination, which originated as a military alliance before being unified into a single nation. Earth Alliance in : Babylon 5 The History of Galaxy novel series Eastasia, Eurasia and Oceania in Nineteen Eighty-Four Federation of the Americas from Call of Duty: Ghosts Gundam in the Cosmic Era timeline of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Interstellar Alliance (Babylon 5) Fleet of Worlds Galactic Empire (Star Wars) Galactic Empire (Isaac Asimov universe) Galactic Republic Imperium of Mankind Mega-City One Meccania United Federation of Planets The Dominion (Star Trek) The World State Unified Earth Government from Halo United States of Africa United States of Europe United Nations (Of Earth) from The Expanse The Outer Planets Alliance (OPA) from The Expanse Tamrielic Empire (Septim Dynasty) from The Elder Scrolls See also China Imperial Federation India List of countries and dependencies by area Organization of American States Soviet Union United States Notes Federalism Political science terminology Political systems