Was that how they had held together their evil empire?

Yet it has lost around two million players over the past year, and now the original evil empire is at the door.

"In many ways I think they're still looking for that evil empire they can fight," he said.

Who else is he going to find to give him an insight into the thinking at the heart of the evil empire?

You don't build a 600-ship Navy or bring down an evil empire with a small government.

He'll rebuild his evil empire and happy days will be here again.

"We can get on with our lives and not have to worry about being the ones running the evil empire anymore."

He describes the main public school teachers' union as the "evil empire."

Neither of these American authors has an evil empire in mind.

It's not at all like the big and glassy evil empire.