Question: The Scottish Midland Co-operative Society now has nearly 200 supermarkets and five perfume shops in Scotland, nine Lakes & Dales food stores and over 140 Semichem health and beauty shops throughout Scotland, Northern Ireland and England, a country that is part of what?

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Wooldale Co-operative Society: Wooldale Co-operative Society is a small consumer co-operative based in the West Yorkshire village of Wooldale.  The Society operates three convenience stores in the Holme Valley villages of New Mill, Thongsbridge and Wooldale.  It was founded as the Wooldale Industrial and Equitable Co-operative Society in 1886, adopting the current name in 1989.

Fleming Companies, Inc: Fleming Companies was founded as Lux Mercantile in Topeka, Kansas, in 1915 by O. A. Fleming, Gene Wilson and Samuel Lux.  In 1941, the company name was changed to The Fleming Company, and Ned Fleming was named President, Chairman, and CEO.  The company's IPO occurred in 1959, when 100,000 shares were offered.  In 1981, R. D. Harrsion was elected Chairman and CEO of the company, with Dean Werries serving as President and COO.  Fleming Companies grew to become the nation's largest supplier of consumer packaged goods to U.S. retailers, serving approximately 50,000 retail locations.  These locations included supermarkets such as IGA, convenience stores, supercenters, discount stores, concessions, limited assortment, drug, specialty, casinos, gift shops, military commissaries and exchanges and others.  In the early 1990s, Fleming was the largest food wholesaler in the United States.  The company served more than 3,500 supermarkets and other retail food stores in 42 states and the District of Columbia.

Midlands Co-operative Society: Midlands Co-operative Society Limited was the second largest consumer co-operative in the United Kingdom.  It was a registered Industrial and Provident Society, a member of the Co-operative Union, the Co-operative Retail Trading Group and a corporate member of The Co-operative Group (formerly Co-operative Wholesale Society), the largest consumer co-operative in the world.  The Society had a wide-ranging and extensive portfolio with over 200 stores, principally trading in the English Midlands.  Head office was located in Lichfield, Staffordshire.

Clydebank Co-operative Society: The Clydebank Co-operative Society Limited is the smallest consumers' co-operative in Scotland, based in the town of Clydebank near Glasgow.  Along with Scotmid and The Co-operative Group, it is one of three co-operative retailers in Scotland, and the only one not merged into a regional or national society.

Croydon Co-operative Society: The Croydon Co-operative Society was a cooperative retailer in Croydon and surrounding parts of Surrey, England.  In 1918, it became part of the new South Suburban Co-operative Society, now the Co-operative Group.

American Yvette Company: American Yvette Company was a Chicago, Illinois based business which manufactured cosmetics and operated beauty shops.  It throve in the late 1920s and 1930s.  The company ran hairdressing and beauty shops in thirty-seven leading department stores in thirty-four cities in the United States, in February 1929.  It maintained exclusive rights to manufacture and sell Evera permanent wave machines in the United States and foreign countries.  The firm is significant for being innovative during the Great Depression, especially in maintaining efficiency of production.

Scotmid: The Scottish Midland Co-operative Society, trading as Scotmid Co-operative, is an independent retail consumers' co-operative that originated in the Central Belt, particularly Edinburgh and the Lothians.  It was formed in 1981 by a merger of the Dalziell Society of Motherwell with the St. Cuthbert's Co-operative Society, which had been established in 1859.  With over 5,000 staff, the chain now has nearly 200 supermarkets and five perfume shops in Scotland, nine Lakes & Dales food stores and over 140 Semichem health and beauty shops throughout Scotland, Northern Ireland and England

Radstock Co-operative Society: Radstock Co-operative Society is a small regional consumer co-operative, which was established in Radstock, Somerset in 1868 and today operates sixteen food stores and across Somerset alongside a 1000 acre farm.  It is owned and democratically controlled by its customer members, who numbered approximately 7000 in 2014.  The society grew from a turnover of £15 million in 2006 to over £35m by 2016, doubling the number of stores over the period.  The business has held the Fair Tax Mark since 2016.

England: England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.  It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west.  The Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest.  England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south.  The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain (which lies in the North Atlantic) in its centre and south, and includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.

Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland: Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland (HSC) is the designation of the publicly funded service which provides public health and other social care services in Northern Ireland.  The Northern Ireland Executive through its Department of Health is responsible for its funding, while the Public Health Agency is the executive agency responsible for the provision of health and social care services across Northern Ireland.  It is free of charge to all citizens of Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom.  For services such as A&E, patients simply walk in, state their name and date of birth, are given treatment and then leave.  Patients are unaware of costs incurred by them using the service.  It is sometimes called the "NHS", as in England, Scotland and Wales, but differs from the NHS in England and Wales in that it provides not only health care but social care too (the NHS in Scotland also includes social care).  Social services are provided by local councils.  The Health and Social Care service was created by the Parliament of Northern Ireland in 1948 after the Beveridge Report.

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Answer: the United Kingdom