America is Like Literally Rome 2.0

I've been trying to work out who the Eastern Empire is. 

I cracked it though: the USSR.
No wonder I couldn't figure it out. This time around the Eastern Empire went down first. 

Or maybe both sides are Eastern? The USSR was the Johnny-come-latelies, while the center of mass puts the Imperial heartland in the East this time around. Touched at Alaska, not at Germany. 

So the latecomer went down first instead of second, but it's still the case that the East outlived the West.
Also, consistent with Satanism, as per the ruling ideology of both Roman Empires. America called itself the West because it is the East of the region. A proper Satanist has to lie about literally everything.