User Nation: United Kingdom (3900)

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It is the 40th century. The United Kingdom is one of 5 superpowers among the hundreds of human nations spread throughout colonised space. Controlling a total 165 primary systems and 200 secondary systems, with a population of 368,000,000,000, the UK is the foremost power of human civilisation. It is a hereditary constitutional monarchy headed by a Monarch, with a Prime Minister as head of government. 
With a culture and institutions that strongly respects history and tradition, the UK is home to the Museum of Humanity, a semi-private organisation with vast resources dedicated to the record of human progress and history. The people of the United Kingdom are of various planetary origins with all colonial subjects granted full-citizenship and voting rights. As a signatory to the London Accords, slavery is prohibited throughout the United Kingdom with the Royal Navy's Peterloo Squadron dedicated to the eradication of slavery and the slave trade outside the British space.
Though commonly held to be the greatest superpower among humanity, the Empire does not have the largest military. However, it is considered to have the most technologically advanced armed forces with the greatest power projection capabilities. The British military consists of 3 branches, the British Army (planetside combat), the Royal Marines (amphibious combat), and the Royal Navy (space combat).
==Political Structure==
===Federal Government===
The United Kingdom is a federal constitutional monarchy divided into provinces, territories, and colonies. The Federal Government rules on behalf of the monarch.
*Legislative Branch: The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the tricameral legislature of the United Kingdom. The product of centuries of evolution.
**House of Lords: The upper house of Parliament, the House of Lords is also the weakest with its primary function being the power of veto of legislation from the lower houses. Even then, the House can only veto a Bill once. Members of the House of Lords (known as Peers) include the Monarch, the Prince of Whales (heir apparent), 35 clergy of the Church of England, and the remaining 670 peers are appointed by the Monarch on the advice of the Prime Minister. Peers may serve in the House of Lords until age 77 when they must retire from parliamentary duties.
**Senate: The middle house of Parliament, the Senate is also the newest house and was created upon the federation of the United Kingdom many centuries ago. The responsibilities of this House are complex, but primarily focus on provincial and territorial rights, and matters of the Federation. Members are known as Senators and are elected by their provincial or territorial legislature. 3 Senators are allocated to each province and territory. Senators serve a maximum of two 6-year terms.
**House of Commons: The lower house of Parliament, the House of Commons is the largest house by far and is responsible for most legislation including matters of finance, war, and general legislation. The Executive Government is also drawn from this House. Members of the House are known simply as Members of Parliament (MPs) and are elected for an indefinite number of 5-year terms, with disqualification at age 77. Elections are held via 3-member geographic districts via single-transferrable vote.
*Executive Branch: His/Her Majesty's Government is the executive branch of the federal government, led by the Prime Minister whom is head of government. The PM is appointed by the Monarch and is he/her who can command the confidence of a majority of the Commons (either by party majority or coalition). The PM must also select Ministers from within the ranks of the House of Commons who will together form the Cabinet and head various Ministries.
*Judicial Branch: The Supreme Court is the highest court in the United Kingdom and is the de facto final authority on all judicial judgements, including those of a constitutional nature. While in principle the monarch is the highest judicial authority in the British court system, in practice the monarch has not exercised this right for over a thousand years. The Court consists of 15 Justices who are nominated by the House of Commons and appointed by the Monarch on the recommendation of the Prime Minister. The Justices serve until age 77 and are led by the Lord Chancellor of Justice, a member of the Court whom is elected (by and from within the Court itself) to lead the Court. The Lord Chancellor of Justice is an ex officio member of the House of Lords.
===Federal Executive Departments and Agencies===
The following list of federal executive departments is accurate as of 3901; the following list of federal executive agencies is incomplete.
* Cabinet Office:
* Royal Exchequer:
** His Majesty's Revenue Service (HMRS)
*** Tax Enforcement Agency (TEA)
** Financial Intelligence Executive (FIE)
** Royal Mint (RM)
* Foreign Office:
** Royal Diplomatic Corps (RDC)
** Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6)
** Communications Intelligence Headquarters (CIHQ)
* Home Office:
** Security Service (MI5)
** Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
** Immigration & Customs Service (ICS)
*** Port Operations Command (POC)
*** Enforcement Command (EC)
** Federal Emergency Response Agency (FERA)
** Bureau of Organised Crime (BOC)
** Frontier Patrol Force (FPF)
* Colonial Office:
** Colonial Recruitment Agency (CRA)
** Royal Rangers (RR)
** Royal Survey Corps (RSC)
* Ministry of Defence:
** British Armed Forces (BAF)
** Defence Intelligence Service (DIS)
** Cybersecurity Service (CS)
* Ministry of Justice:
** His Majesty's Prison Service (HMPS)
* Attorney General's Office:
* Ministry of Commerce & Shipping:
* Ministry of Business & Industry:
* Ministry of Energy, Infrastructure & Transportation:
** Special Intelligence Executive (SIE)
* Ministry of Public & Social Services:
** Federal Census Bureau (FCB)
* Ministry of Education, Skills & Employment:
** Department of Labour Statistics (DLS)
* Ministry of Food & Water:
* Ministry of the Interior:
** National Park Service (NPS)
** Wildlife Conservation Administration (WCA)
** Federal Estate Management Authority (FEMA)
===Provinces, Territories, Colonies===
The United Kingdom is a federal constitutional monarchy divided into provinces, territories, and colonies. A province is a constituent political entity that shares sovereignty with the federal government (not unlike an American state) and governs between 1 and 20 systems. Though the province is the fundamental constituent unit of the federation, in practice the heavily devolved provincial governments mean that system governments and planetary governments are generally responsible for the day to day administration of their area though the provinces reserve the right to command provincial guards and law enforcement, and the majority of laws passed are on the provincial level.
Territories, unlike provinces, do not share sovereignty with the federal government. Instead, they are granted partial sovereignty at the pleasure of the monarch. In effect, while the provinces are federal constituencies, the territories are devolved administrations and derive legitimacy from the federal government. Territories are generally considered to be the transitional state-of-government between the status of colony and province. Territories generally govern between 1 and 20 systems as well.
Colonies represent the smallest level of governmental authority directly below the federal government and posses no sovereignty whatsoever. Colonial governments consist of an appointed governor as executive, with legislatures of varying composition (there is no specification for a colonial legislature in the Constitution). Some larger colonies have part appointed (by the governor) part elected legislatures, while other colonies have entirely elected legislatures or entirely appointed legislatures. Some colonies have no legislatures at all. Colonies may be made territories by the federal government alone.
==Armed Forces==
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His Majesty's Armed Forces are divided into three service branches - the Royal Marines, the British Army, and the Royal Navy. Of the three, the British Army is the only one where the consent of Parliament is necessary for its continued existence, with the other two falling solely under the purview of the Executive (in practice, this is the Cabinet). All service members swear loyalty to the Crown and the Country. Soldiers of the Army also swear loyalty to the people of Britain in addition to the Crown and Country. At present, the British Armed Forces is the second most funded military in the world, and is considered at the forefront of military technology and power projection capabilities. There are currently 250,000,000 active duty personnel under peacetime conditions. 
With the return to a more ceremonial air, military music has come to be a major component of the British Armed Forces. Each branch possesses a Song and a March, with the latter traditional played by each branch's own marching band at parades as an anthem for their branch, and the former played by orchestra's in honour of the fallen and those still serving.
Additionally, each province has the right to raise its own Provincial Guard, which may be divided into a maximum of three service branches - the Territorial Corps, the Marine Corps, and the Naval Corps (which is generally a light naval service, sometimes called a Space Corps). Most Provincial Guards combine the functions of their Marine Corps and Territorial Corps under one branch or the other due to smaller numbers of service personnel. The combined troop count of the various Provincial Guards comes up to around 120,000,000. This brings the total Armed Forces of the United Kingdom up to 370,000,000 during peacetime.
===British Army===
By far the oldest branch of the Armed Forces, the Army is made up of the Ground Force (Groundsmen), Sea Force (Seamen), and Air Force (Airmen); though the latter two are dependant on whether a colonised planetary body has oceans and/or an atmosphere. Tracing its heritage all the way back to the original British Army (ground force) of the United Kingdom on Earth, the Army grew to encompass all of Britain's terrestrial services as the British Space Force was rechristened the Royal Navy. The Army consists of 95,000,000 soldiers based across the nation's planets and moons, with army divisions specialising in various different planetary terrains.
===Royal Navy===
The second oldest branch of the Armed Forces, the Royal Navy finds its origins in the original British Space Force of the United Kingdom on Earth. It is headquartered at the nation's capital, New London, on the capital world New Britain. The RN fields the largest naval fleet in human history, with close to twice the total tonnage as the second and third largest navies combined. The Navy consists of 80,000,000 sailors based in and around the nation's planets, moons, ports, and shipyards. 
===Royal Marines===
The youngest branch of the Armed Forces, the Royal Marines grew out of the Naval Infantry that served aboard Royal Navy ships during the early centuries of the United Kingdom's interstellar expansion. Eventually they were made an independent branch of the Armed Forces with their own bases and craft, allowing them to specialise in invasion tactics and amphibious space-planet warfare. Nonetheless, the Naval Infantry branch of the Marines continue to serve on board Navy ships across the country. The Royal Marines consist of 75,000,000 marines.
==General Information==
===Currency===
The currency of the United Kingdom is the Pound Sterling. 12 Pence make 1 Shilling, 20 Shillings make a Pound.
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