United Kingdom (A New World)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, commonly known as United Kingdom ( UK or U.K. ) or Britain, is a sovereign country located in Northwestern coast of European Mainland.
The United Kingdom is a unitary parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy. The monarch is Queen Charlotte, who has reigned since 2028. The United Kingdom's capital is London, a global city and financial centre with an urban area population of more than 10 million.
The country suffered bioweapon attack after Princess Charlotte of Cambridge force King Michael to step down because she's heir apparent to the throne after survive the assasination to her family in which she the only survivor.
She then leading many britons to hold off against incoming Russian soldier arrived few days after the attack and managed to drive them out of British Isles.
after the attack The America Federation and Canada sending aid to Britain ranging from supplies to Coil technology.
Britain subsequently become member of Reestablished NATO and started to rebuild it's military to become second largest fighting forces within NATO.
The Royal Navy making a comeback as one of strongest Naval Forces in NATO And also the RSAF are making some of best equipment for British Army.
like many other NATO countries, it received criticism for erasing people and events related to political divide especially about "Brexit" in which many of it's proponents were arrested, charged with high treason, and executed including former king Michael of Kent who were condemned as collaborator and in a first, were hanged , drawed , and quartered.
== Politics ==
Th e United Kingdom is an unitary state under a constitutional monarchy. Queen Charlotte is the monarch and head of state of the UK, as well as four Commonwealth Countries. The Five Countries were part of "British Commonwealth". 
=== Government ===
The UK has a parliamentary government based on the Westminster system that has been emulated around the world: a legacy of the British Empire. the parliament of the United Kingdom meets in the Palace of Westminster and has two houses: an elected House of Commons and an appointed House of Lords. all bills are given Royal Assent before becoming law.
the position of Prime Minister, the UK head of government, belongs to the person most likely to command the confidence of the House of Commons. the prime minister chooses a cabinet and its members are formally appointed by the monarch to form Her Majesty's Government. by convention, the monarch respects the prime minister decision of government.
following the aftermath of Bioweapon Attack and as the legacy of "Brexit" and Authoritarian State supported by Russia and China, Queen Charlotte and James S.Davis, the first Prime Minister after the attack, decided to change UK into an Non-Partisan Democracy, Political Parties such as Conservatives and Labour were no longer existed.
also an part of the legacy is the dissolution of Devolved Government in UK, after the revelation that Scottish National Party (SNP) were secretly funded by Russian Oligarchs, therefore leading to the dissolution itself.
=== Law and Order ===
Before 2028, UK doesn't have an single legal system and only has three distinct system of law: English Law, Northern Ireland Law, and Scots Law. however, in 2029, Prime Minister Davis decided to Morphed the three law systems into one, named "British Law", the Bill Passed by Parlianment in May 7, 2029 and granted Royal Assent by the Queen, and became Law days after.
Main Article: Law enforcement in the United Kingdom (A New World), Metropolitan Police Service (A New World), City of London Police (A New World).
Law Enforcement in UK is carried out by Police Officers serving in Regional Police Services (Known as Territorial Police Force) within one of the jurisdictions. these regional services are complemented by UK-wide agencies, such as the National Crime Agency and the national specialist units of certain territorial police forces, such as Specialist Operation directorate of the London Metropolitan Police.
=== Foreign Relation ===
The UK is an founder of the British Commonwealth and a member of NATO and it's successor United Defense Coalition (UDC). it has Embassies in all UDC Member States and forming Trade Relationships such as America Federation, Europe, Japan, Korea, and The Commonwealth.
=== Military ===
Main Article: British Armed Forces (A New World)
Her Majesty's Armed Forces consisted of three professional service branches: the Royal Navy and Royal Marines (forming the Naval Service), the British Army, and the Royal Air Force. the armed forces of United Kingdom are managed by the Ministry of Defence and controlled by the Defence Council, chaired by Secretary of State For Defence. the Commander-in-Chief is the British Monarch, to whom members of the forces swears an oath of allegiance. the armed forces are charged with protecting the UK. they are active and regular participants in UDC.
== Economy ==
The UK has an economic system similar to America Federation, therefore leading to social equality among Neo-Human Populace. HM Treasury, led by Chancellor of the Exchequer, is responsible for developing and executing the government's public finance and economy policy. the Bank of Britain is the UK's central bank and is responsible for issuing notes and coins in the nation's currency, the pound sterling. the pound sterling is world's third-largest reserve currency in the world (after the Federation Dollar and Japanese Yen).
the Coil Automotive Industry employs around 800.000 people, in 2110, the UK produced around 2 Million passengers vehicles and more than 100 thousand commercial vehicles. the UK is a major centre for engine manufacturing: in 2110 around 5 million engines were produced. the UK Motorsport Industry employs about 50.000 people, comprising about 5.000 companies.
=== Science and Technology ===
the UK were leading centre of the Scientific Revolution from the 17th Century. the United Kingdom led the Industrial Revolution from the 18th Century, and has continued to prodcued Scientists and Enginners in the UK through years.
new technologies such as Coil became widespread in UK, while AI, Driveless Cars, and Smart Home, became Unpopular as time goes by, the UK is one of the Nations that banned AI Research in their Country.
=== Transport ===
a radial road network totals 29,145 miles (46,904 km) of main roads, 2,173 miles (3,497 km) of motorways and 213,750 miles (344,000 km) of paved roads. The M25, encircling London, is the largests and busiest bypass in the world. in 2110, there were more than 40 million licensed vehicle in the Great Britain. The UK has an Extensive Railway Networks across Great Britain and Ireland and received more than an million visitors from Europe annually. The Train Networks is oeprated by British Rail as the sole operator of the train networks across the UK
=== Energy ===
The UK is the world Fifth-Largest Consumers of Coil Energy and the Sixth-Producer of Coil.
in 2028, Coil Technology arrived in UK by Ships and Planes from across the Atlantic, following years after that, 95% of the nation has already use the Coil as the Primary source of energy.
=== Water Supply and Sanitations ===
access to improved water supply and sanitation in Uk is universal. it is estimated that 99.7 Percent of the household are connected to the sewer network.
== Demographics ==
a census is taking place simultaneously in all parts of the UK every ten years, starting in 2030 Census, the first census of Post-Bioweapon Attack Era. total population of the United Kingdom in 2110 Census was 57.756.389. most of them were Neo-Humans. while the minorites were Immune and Hybrid Humans.
=== Ethnic Group ===
as the result of the Bioweapon Attack, Ethnic Groups such as Black British, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladesh, Mixed and, other ethnic groups. were suffered sharp drop of the population, resulting in near-extinction of the groups, only fraction of them are "Immune", only Ethnic Groups such as White, Japanese, and Koreans were "Revived", there's also an large number of Adults "Immune".
Neo-Human Population by Citizenships were divided by UK Citizen (95.2%), the rest is filled with UDC Citizens (4.8%).
=== Language ===
The UK's de facto language is English, it is estimated that 95% of the UK's Population are monolingual English Speakers.
=== Religion ===
The UK's is Atheist, as the result of the Bioweapon Attack, Neo-Humans in UK no longer have faith on Christianity. the Church of England is dissolved by Queen Charlotte in 2028, Months after the Bioweapon Attack. but Human Minority still have faith on Christianity, a plurality of them preached other religions.
Western Customs related to Christianity such as Valentine and Christmas Day continued to be practiced as Secular Customs in the UK.
=== Education ===
UK's Education once have distinct education system, but all of them morphed into one, The British Education System. while education is the responsibility of Secretary of State for Education, the day-to-day administration and funding of state schools is the responsibility of local authorities. free education was introduced in 2029 and has continue since. 
Education is now mandatory from ages five to sixteen, and in England youngsters must stay in education or training until they are 18. The majority of children are educated in state-sector schools, a small proportion of which select on the grounds of academic ability.
the proportion of children attending private schools is slowly increased through decades, which reach 20% in 2060.
UK has several Universities, The University of Oxford, The University of Cambridge, The University of Edinburgh, The University of Glasgow, Cardiff University, The University of Dublic, and others across the UK.
== Culture ==
The culture of the United Kingdom has been influenced by many factors including: the nation's island status; its history as a western liberal democracy and a major power; as well as being a political union of four countries with each preserving elements of distinctive traditions, customs and symbolism. As a result of the British Empire, British influence can be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies including Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa and the United States; a common culture coined today as the Anglosphere. The substantial cultural influence of the United Kingdom has led it to be described as a "cultural superpower".
=== Literature ===
"British literature" refers to literature associated with the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Most British literature is in the English language.
The English playwright and poet William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest dramatist of all time, and his contemporaries Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson have also been held in continuous high esteem. More recently the playwrights Alan Ayckbourn, Harold Pinter, Michael Frayn, Tom Stoppard and David Edgar have combined elements of surrealism, realism and radicalism.
Notable pre-modern and early-modern English writers include Geoffrey Chaucer (14th century), Thomas Malory (15th century), Sir Thomas More (16th century), John Bunyan (17th century) and John Milton (17th century). In the 18th century Daniel Defoe (author of Robinson Crusoe) and Samuel Richardson were pioneers of the modern novel. In the 19th century there followed further innovation by Jane Austen, the gothic novelist Mary Shelley, the children's writer Lewis Carroll, the Brontë sisters, the social campaigner Charles Dickens, the naturalist Thomas Hardy, the realist George Eliot, the visionary poet William Blake and Romantic poet William Wordsworth. 20th-century English writers include the science-fiction novelist H. G. Wells; the writers of children's classics Rudyard Kipling, A. A. Milne (the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh), Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton; the controversial D. H. Lawrence; the modernist Virginia Woolf; the satirist Evelyn Waugh; the prophetic novelist George Orwell; the popular novelists W. Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene; the crime writer Agatha Christie (the best-selling novelist of all time); Ian Fleming (the creator of James Bond); the poets W.H. Auden, Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes; the fantasy writers J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis and J. K. Rowling; the graphic novelists Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman. 21st-century saw the rise of new-generations of Novelist that began in 2030s.
Scotland's contributions include the detective writer Arthur Conan Doyle (the creator of Sherlock Holmes), romantic literature by Sir Walter Scott, the children's writer J. M. Barrie, the epic adventures of Robert Louis Stevenson and the celebrated poet Robert Burns. More recently the modernist and nationalist Hugh MacDiarmid and Neil M. Gunn contributed to the Scottish Renaissance. A more grim outlook is found in Ian Rankin's stories and the psychological horror-comedy of Iain Banks.
Britain's oldest known poem, Y Gododdin, was composed in Yr Hen Ogledd (The Old North), most likely in the late 6th century. It was written in Cumbric or Old Welsh and contains the earliest known reference to King Arthur. From around the seventh century, the connection between Wales and the Old North was lost, and the focus of Welsh-language culture shifted to Wales, where Arthurian legend was further developed by Geoffrey of Monmouth. Wales's most celebrated medieval poet, Dafydd ap Gwilym (fl.1320–1370), composed poetry on themes including nature, religion and especially love. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest European poets of his age. Until the late 19th century the majority of Welsh literature was in Welsh and much of the prose was religious in character. Daniel Owen is credited as the first Welsh-language novelist, publishing Rhys Lewis in 1885. The best-known of the Anglo-Welsh poets are both Thomases. Dylan Thomas became famous on both sides of the Atlantic in the mid-20th century. He is remembered for his poetry – his "Do not go gentle into that good night; Rage, rage against the dying of the light" is one of the most quoted couplets of English language verse – and for his "play for voices", Under Milk Wood. The influential Church in Wales "poet-priest" and Welsh nationalist R. S. Thomas was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996. Leading Welsh novelists of the twentieth century include Richard Llewellyn and Kate Roberts.
=== Music ===
Various styles of music are popular in the UK, including the indigenous folk music of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Notable composers of classical music from the United Kingdom and the countries that preceded it include William Byrd, Henry Purcell, Sir Edward Elgar, Gustav Holst, Sir Arthur Sullivan (most famous for working with the librettist Sir W. S. Gilbert), Ralph Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten, pioneer of modern British opera. Sir Harrison Birtwistle is one of the foremost living composers. The UK is also home to world-renowned symphonic orchestras and choruses such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Chorus. Notable conductors include Sir Simon Rattle, Sir John Barbirolli and Sir Malcolm Sargent. Some of the notable film score composers include John Barry, Clint Mansell, Mike Oldfield, John Powell, Craig Armstrong, David Arnold, John Murphy, Monty Norman and Harry Gregson-Williams. George Frideric Handel became a naturalised British citizen and wrote the British coronation anthem, while some of his best works, such as Messiah, were written in the English language. Andrew Lloyd Webber is a prolific composer of musical theatre. His works have dominated London's West End since the late 20th century and have also been a commercial success worldwide.
According to the website of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the term "pop music" originated in Britain in the mid-1950s to describe rock and roll's fusion with the "new youth music". The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that artists such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones drove pop music to the forefront of popular music in the early 1960s. In the following years, Britain widely occupied a part in the development of rock music, with British acts pioneering hard rock; raga rock; art rock; heavy metal; space rock; glam rock; new wave; gothic rock, and ska punk. In addition, British acts developed progressive rock; psychedelic rock; and punk rock. Besides rock music, British acts also developed neo soul and created both trip hop and dubstep.
The Beatles have international sales of over one billion units and are the biggest-selling and most influential band in the history of popular music. Other prominent British contributors to have influenced popular music over the last 50 years include The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Queen, Led Zeppelin, the Bee Gees, and Elton John, all of whom have worldwide record sales of 200 million or more. The Brit Awards are the BPI's annual music awards, and some of the British recipients of the Outstanding Contribution to Music award include; The Who, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, The Police, and Fleetwood Mac (who are a British-American band). Early 21st Century UK music acts that have had international success include George Michael, Oasis, Spice Girls, Radiohead, Coldplay, Arctic Monkeys, Robbie Williams, Amy Winehouse, Adele, Ed Sheeran and One Direction, as well as their band member Harry Styles, who has achieved global success as a solo artist.
Years following the end of WWIII, UK Experienced a New Wave of Pop Music that has spawned New Generation of Singers through Late 30s and into 40s.
=== Visual Arts ===
The history of British visual art forms part of western art history. Major British artists include: the Romantics William Blake, John Constable, Samuel Palmer and J.M.W. Turner; the portrait painters Sir Joshua Reynolds and Lucian Freud; the landscape artists Thomas Gainsborough and L. S. Lowry; the pioneer of the Arts and Crafts Movement William Morris; the figurative painter Francis Bacon; the Pop artists Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton and David Hockney; the pioneers of Conceptual art movement Art & Language; the collaborative duo Gilbert and George; the abstract artist Howard Hodgkin; and the sculptors Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor and Henry Moore. During the late 1980s and 1990s the Saatchi Gallery in London helped to bring to public attention a group of multi-genre artists who would become known as the "Young British Artists": Damien Hirst, Chris Ofili, Rachel Whiteread, Tracey Emin, Mark Wallinger, Steve McQueen, Sam Taylor-Wood and the Chapman Brothers are among the better-known members of this loosely affiliated movement.
The Royal Academy in London is a key organisation for the promotion of the visual arts in the United Kingdom. Major schools of art in the UK include: the six-school University of the Arts London, which includes the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and Chelsea College of Art and Design; Goldsmiths, University of London; the Slade School of Fine Art (part of University College London); the Glasgow School of Art; the Royal College of Art; and The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art (part of the University of Oxford). The Courtauld Institute of Art is a leading centre for the teaching of the history of art. Important art galleries in the United Kingdom include the National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain and Tate Modern (the most-visited modern art gallery in the world, with around 4.7 million visitors per year).
=== Cuisine ===
British cuisine developed from various influences reflective of its land, settlements, arrivals of new settlers and immigrants, trade and colonialism. Celtic agriculture and animal breeding produced a wide variety of foodstuffs for indigenous Celts and Britons. Anglo-Saxon England developed meat and savoury herb stewing techniques before the practice became common in Europe. The Norman conquest introduced exotic spices into England in the Middle Ages. The British Empire facilitated a knowledge of Indian cuisine with its "strong, penetrating spices and herbs". British cuisine has absorbed the cultural influence of those who have settled in Britain, producing many hybrid dishes, such as the Anglo-Indian chicken tikka masala.
=== Media ===
The British Broadcasting Corporation, or BBC, founded in 1922, is the UK's publicly funded radio, television and Internet broadcasting corporation, and is the oldest and largest broadcaster in the world. It operates numerous television and radio stations in the UK and abroad and its domestic services are funded by the television licence.Other major players in the UK media include ITV plc, which operates 11 of the 15 regional television broadcasters that make up the ITV Network.
London dominates the media sector in the UK: national newspapers and television and radio are largely based there, although Manchester is also a significant national media centre. Edinburgh and Glasgow, and Cardiff, are important centres of newspaper and broadcasting production in Scotland and Wales respectively. The UK publishing sector, including books, directories and databases, journals, magazines and business media, newspapers and news agencies, has a combined turnover of around £40 billion and employs around 200,000 people.
=== Sports ===
Association football, tennis, rugby union, rugby league, golf, boxing, netball, rowing and cricket originated or were substantially developed in the UK, with the rules and codes of many modern sports invented and codified in late 19th century Victorian Britain. In 2012, the President of the IOC, Jacques Rogge, stated, "This great, sports-loving country is widely recognised as the birthplace of modern sport. It was here that the concepts of sportsmanship and fair play were first codified into clear rules and regulations. It was here that sport was included as an educational tool in the school curriculum".
in International Competitions, a single team of British Isles usually represented the UK in general.
An 2050 Poll found that Football is the most popular sport in the United Kingdom. It's being recognised as the birthplace of club football, and The Football Association is the oldest of its kind, with the rules of football first drafted in 1863 by Ebenezer Cobb Morley. The English top division, the Premier League, is the most watched football league in the world.
Rugby union was ranked second most popular sport in the UK. The sport was created in Rugby School, Warwickshire, and the first rugby international took place on 27 March 1871 between England and Scotland.
The modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the 1860s, before spreading around the world. The world's oldest tennis tournament, the Wimbledon championships, first occurred in 1877, and today the event takes place over two weeks in late June and early July.
Thoroughbred racing, which originated under Charles II of England as the "sport of kings", is popular throughout the UK with world-famous races including the Grand National, the Epsom Derby, Royal Ascot and the Cheltenham National Hunt Festival (including the Cheltenham Gold Cup). The UK has proved successful in the international sporting arena in rowing.
The UK is closely associated with motorsport. Many teams and drivers in Formula One (F1) are based in the UK, and the country has won more drivers' and constructors' titles than any other. The UK hosted the first F1 Grand Prix in 1950 at Silverstone, the location of the British Grand Prix held each year in July. In 2038, the first F1 Season Began, 10 Years after been on Hiatus following the Bioweapon Attack on UK.
The UK also hosts legs of the Grand Prix motorcycle racing, World Rally Championship and FIA World Endurance Championship. The premier national auto racing event is the British Touring Car Championship. Motorcycle road racing has a long tradition with races such as the Isle of Man TT and the North West 200.
Golf is the sixth most popular sport, by participation, in the UK. Although The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews in Scotland is the sport's home course, the world's oldest golf course is actually Musselburgh Links' Old Golf Course. In 1764, the standard 18-hole golf course was created at St Andrews when members modified the course from 22 to 18 holes. The oldest golf tournament in the world, and the first major championship in golf, The Open Championship, is played annually on the weekend of the third Friday in July.
=== Symbol ===
The flag of the United Kingdom is the Union Flag (also referred to as the Union Jack). It was created in 1606 by the superimposition of the Flag of England on the Flag of Scotland and updated in 1801 with the addition of Saint Patrick's Flag. Wales is not represented in the Union Flag, as Wales had been conquered and annexed to England prior to the formation of the United Kingdom. The possibility of redesigning the Union Flag to include representation of Wales has not been completely ruled out. In 2028, new UK Government decided to replaced the national anthem of the United Kingdom "God Save the Queen" with an new one, due to the fact that the country is becoming Atheist.
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