Kingdom of British Columbia (Nationstates IV)

The **Crown of the Lands Established by Sir James Douglas and Richard Clement Moody**, known more informally as the **Kingdom of British Columbia** (or just **British Columbia**) is a nation on the west coast of the Holy American Empire, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. British Columbia's capital is the city of Victoria on Vancouver Island, named for Queen Victoria, who ruled during the creation of the original colonies. The largest metropolitan area in the country is Vancouver, which houses roughly 2.5 million people.

British Columbia is an executive hereditary monarchy and decentralized unitary state, with the country being divided up into several autonomous provinces with sovereignty remaining solely with the Crown. The provinces are ruled by a lieutenant-general appointed by the King, who in turn appoints the mayors of cities that all serve at His Majesty's Pleasure.

## Government and politics

British Columbia is ruled by an effective hereditary monarch, yet tempered by the devolved powers of local provinces and BC Common Law (adopted by royal decree), which stipulates that the monarch must rule in accordance with Catholic teaching if his rule is to be legitimate; in essence, the Bible and the Catechism of the Catholic Church act as the country's constitution, and the Lords Spiritual of the Royal Parliament play a large role in making sure the monarch's rule remains true to Catholic teaching; if not, then the Archbishop of Vancouver could excommunicate him, which makes the monarch's rule illegitimate.

The legislature of the kingdom is the unicameral Royal Parliament, which is modeled after the British House of Lords. It consists of Catholic Clergy, members of the BC Peerage,

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 passed are given Royal Assent before becoming law.

The position of prime minister,[note 14] the UK's head of government,[194] belongs to the person most likely to command the confidence of the House of Commons; this individual is typically the leader of the political party or coalition of parties that holds the largest number of seats in that chamber. 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's decisions of government.[195]

**British Columbia** (**BC**) is the westernmost province in Canada, between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. With an estimated population of 5.1 million as of 2020, it is Canada's third-most populous province. The capital of British Columbia is Victoria, the fifteenth-largest metropolitan region in Canada, named for Queen Victoria, who ruled during the creation of the original colonies. The largest city is Vancouver, the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada, the largest in Western Canada, and the second-largest in the Pacific Northwest. In October 2013, British Columbia had an estimated population of 4,606,371 (about 2.5 million of whom were in Greater Vancouver).[9] The province is currently governed by the British Columbia New Democratic Party, led by John Horgan, in a minority government with the confidence and supply of the Green Party of British Columbia. Horgan became premier as a result of a no-confidence motion on June 29, 2017.