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Nah the nords are like the nazi hungarians in the 50's trying to start an ethnostate. The imperials are like the soviets rolling
in to quash the uprising. The imperials are also in a cold war conflict with a much greater enemy (The elven ethnostate)
Also this is all a bit of course. All the countries are feudal at the most. I prefer the empire because they're the only "not-ethnostate" group in the conflict. I also think the Stormcloaks are shown to be hypocritical throughout the game by way of Markath having it's own ethnic minority wanting independence from Skyrim, but the nords - despite being these rugged freedom wanters, seeking to throw off the imperial yoke - instead choose to suppress this group.
It should very much be noted that the imperials, despite the facade of cosmopolitan diversity, do engage in a lotta the same colonialist policies both in of assimilation (they push the cult of the nine on basically everyone and demand they join the imperial economy), Cyrod-centrism and the like.
We should of course all be supporting the goblins and rieklings in their struggle against the genocidal elves, lizards, cats and hairless monkeys
Critical support to the empire in its struggle to break the hegemony of the aldmeri alliance. May the empire crumble immediately after.
The Imperials are not nearly cool enough to be the Soviets, they're a decadent Monarchy with an all-powerful aristocratic class.
Imperials are more bourgeois-ified than aristocrats afaik.
Late Septim empire was more 1500s/1600s but with magic than ancient roman (The ancient romans are the Remans).
This is most evident in Morrowind, but even in Oblivion there's stuff like printing presses, near daily papers, etc. This is also clear in Skyrim when one approaches locations associated with trade (e.g. Windhelm or Solitude) and meets bourgeois-aristocrats such as Vittoria Vicci owner of the East Empire Company.
Riften has a capitalist more powerful than the Jarl, wealth beginning to supplant hereditary title would fit that time frame comparison.
I mean yeah, thet're literally called The Imperials. I think it's pretty obvious we're doing a bit. The nords aren't some guerilla revolutionairies either, they're just another set of nobles wanting to oppress peasants while keeping a larger slice of a smaller cake.