[quote=@Mihndar]Large resentful empire ruled by a small minority ring a bell?
[/quote]Then you should've chosen the UK. They lorded over India and a number of other colonies. Same with the French.
Austria-Hungary after the Compromise always had the majority with Hungarian population making up more than a half.
[url]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Ethnographic_map_of_hungary_1910_by_teleki_carte_rouge.jpg[/url]