That is interesting, but many tried and did not end well for them (see Ghadafi and all the benefits that his country had before the war). That being said, we had bigger and stronger empires falling in the last 3000 years. Kings that the world could not get enough. In the end, everything will end. Given enough time, even the stars die, somebody used to say to me. Only the time is eternal.
Well, time isn't eternal, because time is measured by the light that stars emit. So when all the stars die, time is over, from a sense that we measure it using the closest star.
Time never existed in the first place.
It is a human construction.
There is a difference between one or two nations trying with millions of people, and 230 doing it with billions of people I think. Of course, the biggest issue is that the members of the RoW are just as bad at a smaller scale.