[centre][h2][u]United Kingdom of Great Britain[/u][/h2]
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[b]Territories:[/b]: Great Britain, Ireland, and all British overseas territories and Crown dependencies, as well as Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland, Cyprus and Iceland.

[b]Political Party:[/b] Conservative and Unionist Party majority government. The Opposition is divided between two ideologically contrasting major players: left-wing Labour, and the far-right 'Republican Alliance', founded during the Great British Boom by American expatriates and advocating abolition of the monarchy and more assertive foreign policy, especially in relation to communist and extremist regimes.

[b]Type of Government:[/b] Parliamentary Democracy under Constitutional Monarchy.

[b]Military:[/b] To be determined.

[b]Economy:[/b] The United Kingdom is the world's largest economy, and an international leader in finance, manufacturing, and technology. Although [i]very[/i] capitalist, and populated by a great many of rich expatriates from now communist countries, Great Britain does not shy away from performing business with any state so inclined to deal with it, including extremists on either side of the political spectrum.

The United Kingdom's is a largely market-oriented economy, and the government makes a point of keeping it this way. Nearly all production is conducted by private enterprises, and most services (excluding some pincushions like healthcare) are operated by the private sector as well. This means that although the United Kingdom's economy is both large and quickly expanding, there is still a very evident class divide in British society, as there has always been. The poor are richer than they've ever been before, however, and plentiful employment opportunities coupled with economically naturally fast-growing wages keep the lower classes placated.

A result of the post-war influx of foreign businesses and workers into the United Kingdom was an intense and rapid technological evolution, centred around London. The "Great British Boom", as it has become colloquially known, extended to all theatres of technology, from consumer electronics to military weaponry. Devices that were previously thought of as fantastical objects of science fiction, such as laser weaponry, became the new reality. This new frontier of technology is expanding ever still, bringing humanity's progress ever forward, with the British once again at the helm.

[b]Post-War History:[/b] As a consequence of being largely spared from the devastation of WWIII, Great Britain emerged from the war as the world's largest and fastest growing economy—the new old superpower. The country's financial sector sky-rocketed as a result of the total abolition of the United States dollar and severe war-time strain on the Euro, culminating in the pound sterling's ascension to the status of reserve currency. Industry as well, particularly manufacturing, was given a stupendous advantage by the infrastructural devastation of so many of the nation's competitors. With the factories of Germany and the United States either bombed out or exhausted, the factories of England multiplied and innovated, and many major international manufacturers either established a new presence in or outright relocated to the United Kingdom.

The Republic of Ireland enjoyed only a few short years of comparative advantage over the United Kingdom following British withdrawal from the European Union. Once the war started, the Irish found themselves drawn into it by a consequence of their close ties with Brussels, and Dublin conscripted many young Irish men and women up to join the newly founded European Federation's sovereign military. A large many, fearing war and coveting British prosperity, escaped into either Northern Ireland or Great Britain itself. This was a major headache for Dublin, and the major Irish political parties, all of which supported Ireland's place in the European Federation, found themselves ostracized by the new Irish generation. A second outbreak of the Troubles broke out in the Emerald Isle, only this time instead of focusing in Northern Ireland, they excluded it. Belfast was bolstered at Dublin's expense, and the Irish Republic became despised by its people for its insistence—both past and present—on connecting Ireland to Europe. Outbreaks of violence between anti and pro-federation Irishmen became common, and London began to give first illicit and then public support to anti-EU factions. Eventually, the fighting became so intense that the Irish forces deployed abroad were sent back home to quell the unrest, and the anti-EU factions suffered brutal reprisals. Leaders of the anti-EU factions fled to Belfast, and, with London's approval, signed the 'Belfast Declaration', declaring an newly independent State of Ireland consisting of both the European Federation's Irish territories and British Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom's military and economic might was enough to pressure the EU Federation to acquiesce, and the pro-EU factions in power in Ireland therefore found themselves isolated. The British military moved in, quickly destroying the Irish military and capturing Dublin and the other major cities, restoring order amongst the sectarian chaos. All paramilitary factions, both anti-EU and pro-EU, were formally outlawed, and a referendum was held to determine the future of Ireland. The Irish people, including all residents of the entire island, were presented with three options: absolute independence, incorporation back into the European Federation, or incorporation back into the United Kingdom. Hoping to become a part of the Great British Boom, the majority of the Irish people selected the second option. Their ensuing prosperity and the migration of both Britons and foreign immigrants into Ireland cemented the island's place within the United Kingdom for the foreseeable future. The Irish now took part, as British citizens, in the huge technological and manufacturing advances that the collapse of so much of the rest of the world had made way for, for them and their fellow statesmen across the Irish Sea.

Ireland was far from the only country to face crisis, political or economic, from the outbreak of war. The manufacturing might of the third world took a tumble from WWIII, based not only on loss of production capability, but also loss of market access. The rise of authoritarian and communist regimes across Asia and Africa meant that their low labour costs could no longer be taken advantage of by western companies, the changing political environment working in every way in London's favour. The financiers of Singapore and Hong Kong packed up and moved wholesale to London, fearing ruin should they remain in their corner of the world much longer. The United Kingdom welcomed not only the economies of foreign nations with open arms, but also many of their people. The violent collapse of the United States and the widespread devastation of the European mainland forced tens of millions from their homes, and, with nowhere else to go, across either the English Channel or North Atlantic to the safety and prosperity of the British Home Isles. This new wave of immigration from the west replaced an almost complete cessation of migration from the Third World, the poor of the world's newly communist states finding themselves physically unable to flee their destitution and follow behind their former employers, blocked by men in revolutionary garb calling them traitors. This fundamental alteration to the British growth dynamic resulted in major partisan policy changes as well. The Tories became the party of immigrants, welcoming with open arms the largely Anglophone, largely right-wing and largely white newcomers. Labour, fearing demographic outmaneuvering and potential overpopulation, became more critical of international migrants, commenting on the rapidly increasing competition for employment as a reason to close the borders.

The inclusion of Australia and New Zealand under direct British sovereignty is a recent phenomenon, having occurred as the logical end result of a gradual spiral towards dependence on London since WWIII. When the southward expansion of the Chinese during the war reached the shores of northern Australia, the United States, long considered by the Australians as their stalwart protector, were preoccupied with severe crisis at home, and were unable to offer direct military assistance. It was instead left to Her Majesty's Royal Navy, deploying from the British Indian Ocean Territory, to come to Australia's aid. As luck would have it, however, actual involvement in armed conflict proved unnecessary: the arrival of the Union Jack in close proximity to the conflict area prompted a Chinese offer of ceasefire, and the invasion of Australian mainland was therefore halted along the north coast. In negotiations in Darwin, a treaty came to be signed, with British audience, between the governments of Australia and China. The Australian mainland was entirely vacated by the Chinese, and, in exchange, the northern external territories of Australia came under Chinese sovereignty. The signing of this agreement predicated a new policy in both Australia and New Zealand involving tightening each respective country's relationship with London. More open trade and travel agreements were signed, military measures were undertaken (including construction/transfer of military bases to accommodate a permanent British presence), and the citizens of Australia and New Zealand came to take part in the prosperity of the Great British Boom. In the twenty years following the war, economic and political ties strengthened gradually, until the matter of formal unity came to be regarded as a genuine possibility. Assisted by the extremely close cultural and historical ties between Anglophone Oceania and the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand were, on the 26th of January 2047, formally entered into sovereign unity with Great Britain, becoming constituent states of the United Kingdom on the same level as Scotland.

[b]Population:[/b] 141,328,000.

[u][b]Racial and Cultural Demographics[/b][/u]
78% White British (including those who self-identify solely as English, Scottish, Irish, etc.)
15% Other White ('American', German, Polish, etc.)
03% Asian (Predominantly Indian and Pakistani.)
01% Black (Primarily from/in the British Caribbean.)
02% Other (Mixed Race, Not Specified, etc.)

[u][b]Religious Demographics[/b][/u]
62% Christian (largest Christian denomination is the Church of England, the official state church).
34% Irreligious and/or Atheist.
02% Muslim.
02% Other (Hinduism, Judaism, etc.)

[b]Head of State:[/b] William V.

[b]Head of Government:[/b] Prime Minister Janet Bright.