Just say your favorite historic period and under what leader and why.
Personally speaking I like the kievan rus under Prince Yaroslav the wise bbecause Yaroslav had establish the kievan rus as a 'great power' at the time even being able to go toe to toe with the byzantine's in 1043.

I love Britain for it's history, but you go over there now and it's just Chavs and people screamin'

I love Britain for it's history, but you go over there now and it's just Chavs and people screamin'

As a Brit I can confirm that I spend 99% of my day screaming.

I haven't really thought about a favorite historical country, though I do enjoy pre-Weimar Germany (so Prussia/German Empire era), especially given that some of my ancestors are from there. The 1700s-1800s era is kind of my thing, too, given that my friend and I have played an unhealthy amount of tabletop in made up fantasy land inspired by the era, with countries being similar to some (we had a Prussia, another one was a French Empire, etc).

Other than that I think either pre-Westernized (or early Westernized, when guns and other stuff started being introduced by the Europeans + America) or WW2 Japan is cool. Honestly, if its 18th/19th century or the World Wars, it probably has my attention. I don't really pay much attention to before that, outside landsknechts and the occasional meme about Rome or the crusades.

I don't know how to end this, so I'm going to remind everyone not to let the Austrian dogs have any onions.

Politically, I'm down with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It might have been turned over by corruption and dominance of other empires, but I like the concept of the nation. Tadeusz Kościuszko was also a pretty rad guy.

Culturally I like the late-80s-early-90s of America and Japan. I know exactly what that makes me, no need to say it.

America. Of course.

Once read The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes. The founding era of Australia is very interesting.

The West African Emoire of Mali under Mansa Musa.

I'm gonna be that pleb and say Rome during that weird period where Ceaser wasn't officially in charge but was very much in charge.