Imperial Federation (Nationstates II)

The **Imperial Federation**, frequently (albeit erroneously) referred to as the **British Empire**, is a supranational political association of the United Kingdom and its former dominions and colonial possessions, reorganized from the old Empire in order to continue its legacy. The Imperial Federation's main members consist of the United Kingdom and the Imperial Dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Rhodesia and India. The Federation has a coordinated fiscal and monetary policy, open borders and freedom of movement, a united military, and a superior Parliament that oversees the decisions provided in other national parliaments. Although the component nations are recognized as independent, in the context of world politics, the Imperial Federation is regarded as a singular entity and a superpower in its own right, owing to its large combined military, common economic and foreign policy, the fact that it is a nuclear-weapons state, and surface area which covers more territory than either the United States or the Soviet Union.

The Imperial Federation is a union of sovereign states and functions as a parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy, which allows for a significant amount of influence of the monarch. The monarch is

The United Kingdom is a unitary parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy.[note 11][16][17] The monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned since 1952, making her the world's longest-serving current head of state.[18] The United Kingdom's capital is London, a global city and financial centre with an urban area population of 10.3 million.[19] The United Kingdom consists of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.[20] Their capitals are London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, respectively. Apart from England, the countries have their own devolved governments,[21] each with varying powers.[22][23] Other major cities include Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, and Manchester.

## Politics

The Imperial Federation, much like the mother nation that leads it, does not have a codified constitution and instead defines its laws and status through the Imperial Federation Treaty signed in 1892, the two subsequent treaties in 1893 and 1896 defining the federation's functions, and the myriad of motions passed in the Imperial Parliament regulating each member states' powers and relationship with the federation. Contemporary political analysts and historians generally regard the federation as a confederation, or at least a loose federation, as it has effective coordination of member states in the areas of trade and national defence, but the vast majority of issues are left to the individual member states to address as they see fit.

The head of the Imperial Federation is the Queen of the United Kingdom, stylized as Sovereign of the Imperial Federation, and she is the effective head of state of the federation, implementing Imperial policies through the various viceroys throughout the dominions and crown dependencies.

### Imperial Parliament

The principal decision-making body of the Imperial Federation is the Imperial Parliament, which convenes at the Palace of Westminster. Following the devolution of powers in the United Kingdom after the Imperial Federation Treaty, which saw the establishment of a parliament based in Birmingham to deal with issues affecting only England, Westminster became the central location for Imperial discussion.

## Military

*Her Majesty's Armed Forces* consists of three professional service branches: the Imperial Navy, the Imperial Marines (both of which form the Naval Service), the Imperial Army and the Imperial Air Force. The armed forces of the federation are managed by the Ministry of Defence and controlled by the Defence Council, chaired by the Secretary of State for Defence. The Commander-in-Chief is the British monarch, to whom all members of the forces swear an oath of allegiance. The Armed Forces are charged with protecting the United Kingdom and the constituent states of the Imperial Federation, principally against Chinese (and by extension, communist) expansionism, and maintaining peacekeeping efforts within the federation to ensure minimal internal threat to its existence.

The Imperial armed forces are, by and large, the enlarged and renamed British armed forces that played a key role in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. By emerging victorious from conflicts, Britain has often been able to decisively influence world events. The transition from empire to federation has ensured its continual existence and the Imperial military has been able to prove itself against not only insurgencies within various parts of the federation, but externally as well such as the Anglo-Japanese War, the Egyptian Civil War, the Bornean Emergency and the Korean War.