United Commonwealth of Britain

### Interesting Fact

The United Commonwealth's former Prime Minister is the only elected office in history to die after pushing through an anti-Brutalism bill so aggressively, that he ran out of Parliament with a sledgehammer after the bill was passed and started randomly chipping away at a random brutalist building. He died in the resulting building collapse.

The **United Commonwealth of Great Britain**, commonly known as **Commonwealth** (CW) or **Britain** is a regional power in Europe, comprising England, Scotland and Wales. The Commonwealth includes the Island of Great Britain in its totality, as well several minor islands that surround it. The Nation does not share an international border, being fully surrounded by water. The Total Area of the United Commonwealth is 142 square miles (228,66 km2), with an estimated population of 63.7 million, including the space territories of **New Britannia** and others.

During the Interwar Period between the 3rd and 4th World Wars, the United Kingdom served as an ideological balance against the fanatic Christian Conservatism of the United States of America, and had to intervene against its own ally in a internal war of influence over the League of Free Nations.

Despite a brief revival in the relevance of the monarchy during WW4, in which King William made himself the symbol of Britain’s defiance and spirit in the face of the Eurasian invasion. However, following his inevitable replacement by his son, George VII, the institution has once again faded into obscurity. Because of that, the name “Kingdom” doesn’t even feature in Britain’s full name anymore, albeit for reasons of decentralization rather than republicanism.

## Description

Former seat of the British Empire, the island that remains is the core of what is left of an empire which left its influence on the entire world. The nation was characterized by its great natural beauty, much of which can be attributed to its aggressively environmentalist policies.

During the early Interwar Period the country’s political system broke apart, with Labour breaking in two into the Social Democratic and Socialist Parties of Britain, the rise of the British Identity Coalition and British Revival Party being the factions of the ethnic and Christian far right respectively, and the rise of outside great power influences. With the Socialist Party being supported by China, the British Identity Coalition by the Eurasian Union, and the British Revival Party being supported by Cortezian Conservatives from the United States.

Leaving a centrist coalition of the Liberal Democrats and the British Conservatives to hold the country together for the next few years, the British Conservative Party, under the new environmentalist direction of Prime Minister Tom Cockburn eventually fused with the Green Party to become the British Conservation Party.

The country began undergoing a radical change with the Eurasian occupation of the British Home Islands between 2059 and 2066, where the British monarchy was put in power with a collaborationist government, massively affecting public approval of them at home. The Great Floods as well as the widespread environmental damage led to a green backlash, and the society and culture of the United Kingdom began to radically shift.

After being on the winning side of the 4th World War, the United Kingdom shifted radically. They abolished the monarchy, seeing them as traitors for working with the Eurasian Union, got rid of all brutalist architecture (With one Prime Minister famously even taking a sledgehammer to them personally), embraced radical environmentalist and degrowth policies, and grew a great distrust of the church. The Church of England, which had been declining for decades, and had been tainted by its close association with the monarchy was unceremoniously given back to the Catholics, and it’s buildings were repossessed by the Anglican Heritage Foundation, a secular organization whose purpose was to preserve the heritage found in the Anglican churches.

Today, the United Kingdom is on a vast ambition to reforest its growing countryside, as its population is in methodical managed decline, with highly vetted immigration, its goal is to preserve the environment of the British Home Islands. Its breathtaking natural areas bring in much tourism, but not immigration from people wishing to see the trees.

Housing is incredibly affordable due to the mismatch between supply and demand, and much of the ugliest housing blocks have been cleared for more forest, leaving only the old and pleasant left as the best places for young Brits to live.

## Religion

In stark contrast to the situation found in the United States, and other Western countries, the changing social environment of the 21st century along with revelations in science had led many to believe that the chance of there being a God or Gods was low, as many things once attributed to the will of the divine had found more reasoned explanations. Furthermore, the horrifying circumstances many felt themselves in led to many people losing hope in the belief of a higher power to save Britain. This was only intensified during World War Four, in which the general populace felt that the nation would only be rebuilt with their "blood, toil, tears and sweet" instead of a God. With the protestant populace declining in faith, the most devoted members of the Anglican Church started joining to the Catholic Church, until the latter outpowered the first.

The remnants of the Anglican Church were eventually reorganized into the "Anglican Heritage Foundation", which now served as a historical preservation and documentation role, rather than a religious role.

## Demographics

Immigration slowed down to almost a halt following the Great Bleeding and the The 2022 Unraveling. The rise of Far right groups during the Pre World War 3 and later revanchism ended with a lot of new legislation restricting emigration into Britain. Despite the fact that many of these laws where lifted, the immigrant community inside Britain has remained stable ever since.

The general decline of birthrates sensed in the western world persisted along most of the 21st Century, with small gaps during both world wars. Ever since the 80s, however, birthrates seem to be rising again due to the new "hopeful situation" in which parents can be sure, with a certain degree, that their children will not live in a world ravaged by war.

## Politics

The current parliamentary makeup is simultaneously unchanged and unrecognizable. The current ruling party, The **Unionist Conservation Party**, formerly the Conservative & Unionist Party, holds around 41% of the seats, just shy of a majority, considering the fact that Britain switched from first-past-the-post to a more proportionate and representative voting system during the 2040’s under the Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition. The old “British Identity Coalition” a more radical successor to UKIP from that time, has also gone out of vogue due to decreased immigration and more race mixing leading to a more homogenous society and ethnic makeup. The Labour Party has also merged with the Green Party, forming a more radical alternative to the current leadership; proposing to take Britain’s ecological and state intervention features to a higher level, similar to the current situation in Ireland. In Scotland and Wales, the SNP and Plaid Cymru remain strong, however the desire for independence has decreased over the years as London promises are finally fulfilled.

The British Revival Party, a party that was briefly supported by the Americans, and once preached Christian nationalism largely dissolved after the 4th World War, and very little of it remains today.

## Monarchy

After the dissolution of the British Monarchy, many of its former members ended up living private lives. Though a larger portion than expected ended up becoming right wing political pundits, with the "Windsor Network" becoming a somewhat popular far right news network and platform.

1. ↑ I'd like to thank u/BenTheBraindead by doing so much lore on the UK. Without his work, I'd never be able to do this. Much of what is written here is copypasted from his posts, and altered by me. So Credits to the left.