[FreshStart]

You want to look out for border regions, the small nations were other empires ended and went back and forth. You look for civil wars (empire lovers VS suppressed), cultural extinction attempts and empire imitators.. Aka small nations behaving atrocious to remain free by mimicry.. Sift through history and you get to know alot of empires that were and are worser.

[Timon3]

But that's not what GP was talking about. They said "the US has been the most friendly empire". It doesn't matter if a lot of empires were worse.