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A nation-sized ego with the weapons to back most of it up.
means A nation (or sometimes a person or thing) with such outsized strength, reach, or influence that it can shape outcomes well beyond its own borders.
from A 20th-century coinage, built simply from 'super-' (Latin for 'above, beyond') plus 'power.' It entered serious use around the WWII era, when writers and strategists needed a word for states — like the US and USSR — whose military and economic might dwarfed ordinary 'great powers.' The comic-book sense of a hero's special ability rode in on the same prefix, but as a separate, later pop-culture branch of the word's family tree.
- club size
- only two or three qualify at once
- real currency
- debt others owe you, not land owned
- expiry date
- every one so far has had one
- cheap imitation
- regional power with better PR