>>212621398>I have the impression that their government and bureaucracy has always been complete garbage but they could make up for it thanks to their empire and global reachThat empire and global reach was only enabled by a massive bureaucracy in London, hispanon. It wasn't garbage at all, but an imperial bureaucracy is not well suited to administering a nation state once the rump is all that is left.
>They are the only european country that still seems to have a class based society sometimesIt's all time, but all euro countries and indeed countries in general are exactly the same under the surface. Britain is just one of the few where historical baggage has given the different classes different registers of speech and appearances, to make the discrepancies obvious. Even then, I hope you're not going to tell me that, socially, Carlos Sainz is exactly the same as Yung Beef.