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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8345754" data-attributes="member: 4534"><p>Byzantine is used to describe a situation, often bureaucratic, that is overly complicated, tedious, and difficult to understand.  I don't think I've ever heard someone use byzantine to describe another nation unless they were literally speaking about Byzantium.  In my professional life, I've described certain administrative processes of the federal government as byzantine.  As far as decadent is concerned I've typically heard it used in one of two ways:  To describe a confection, typically chocolate, as part of an advertising campaign.  And by Soviet pundits and historians who referred to the United States as decadent.  And as far as despot goes, we've referred to plenty of western leaders as despots including Napoleon and Frederick II of Prussia.</p></blockquote><p></p>