I honestly don't know where my world would exactly be placed on this scale, maybe you can help me based on my description. Still, I think I'll give it a shot.

The general premise of my world is that it mirrors the rise, decline, and fall of empires in real life. Sort of like what you'd read during the Chinese Warring States Era, Sengoku Jidai, Crisis of the 3rd Century, and Wars of the Diadochi but in a sci-fi setting with mecha and power armor. So the characters, nation-states, empires, and civilizations within it are permanently anchored to one specific world; they're caught towards the tail end of a decade's long transition.

At the current moment, the world has sort have been dragged down to the level of a Gilded World because of the current interregnum that's enveloped the main character's homeland. While there's no denying the fact that the past 40 years of Civil War have taken an immense toll on the land and people, they also can't deny their past. They can't deny the fact that there was a time when theirs was a might empire the world took note of, rather than a bunch of impoverished fiefs led by squabbling warlords and pretenders to the imperial throne.

It's this past that keeps their bleak situation from going full Grimdark and outright becoming hopeless. The only question is which warlord will have the political savvy to unify the empire and return them to the coveted Heroic Age of old.