re: The Roman Empire compared to a map of the USA

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All of them

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Nope. But please do share your thoughts in detail.

And like the Roman Empire, they placate us with our bread and games whilst running roughshod over the lot of us. Our infrastructure, and economy can be crumbling, and our quality of life melting away before our very eyes, but as long as we have the games, we’re all good.

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It was the original Rome and based on a larger geographic footprint and a more homogeneous population.

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Uh, early Rome did not have a more 'homogenous' population. I have no idea where you are getting that notion. One way we know this is through the linguistic footprint of the Italian peninsula, which included several distinct Italic languages, including groups like the Falisci, among many many others.

I don't know what you mean by larger geographic footprint, but one reason Rome was stripped of its wealth in Late Antiquity was due to its poor location, as it was farther south in the peninsula and was supplanted in this era by Ravenna and eventually other cities in Northern Italy. It was a good central location for conquering Italy, but it lacked the ease of both land and sea access to the broader Mediterranean.

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New Rome in the East was basically a City / State with an original population of more say the Persian Empire.

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What the frick are you talking about? This is absolute nonsense. The Greeks in Asia Minor lived in that area for several centuries, and considered themselves Roman up until the years leading to the Greek War of Independence. Indeed, the Greeks who remained in the Ottoman Empire considered themselves Romans. The Anatolian peoples were largely Indo-European too, and to say they were inhabited by people from the Persian Empire, which rarely had control of Asia Minor proper, is very stupid. You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about with respect to the population make-up of these areas.

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Which ones?

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For example, both the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire claimed direct lineage to the Roman Emperors. Roman administrative structures were adopted wholesale into the Umayyad Empire, with its center at Damascus, as the pattern of the early Arab conquests was that they generally adopted the already existing administrative structures, with the differences being where taxes were sent.

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Western Rome was based on conquest and expansion
Eastern Rome was based on a contraction and a trading post with advantages

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What? Man, you desperately need to read something non-retarded about Late Antiquity.

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The laws are more fixed on the scientific end

"Matter can not be changed"

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Again, this isn't even an answer to what I'm referring to.

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Old Romans = Italians
New Romans = Turks

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My dear lord man, the Turks were a Central Asian group that moved into Anatolia in the 11th century. Moreover, they didn't replace the people who lived there. Do you know how we know?

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At the peak the Mongol empire was almost 5 times as large as the peak Roman empire.

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The OP is focusing on the size but the Roman Empire doesn't get it's greatness from its size really but from it's duration and long lasting influence. We are using their alphabet still.
The Mongolians disappeared almost as quickly as they came.

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Romans spoke Greek and their texts were in Greek

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The ancient Romans didn’t even have smartphones silly head.

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is it just me, or does this look like a Domino's Noid with a leaky penis?

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love to see what you do with some Rorschach tests