Britannia

Flag of Britannia

**Britannia** is a medium-sized constitutional monarchy located in Southern Ura. The country wields a large amount of influence in the nations of the **Britannian Colonial Empire**. The country’s monarch is currently George Windsor V of the House of Windsor and the prime minister is Raphaël Olivier of the Conservative Party of Britannia. The country has a population of 17.4 million citizens and the empire has a population of 31 million citizens. The capital of Britannia and the Britannian Colonial Empire is the industrial city of Londonium.

## History

Britannia was founded in 1699 by a group of space colonists making Britannia the first colonized place in Ura. The first colonists did not create a nation and were relatively unknown on Earth. In 1709 a new group of colonists landed in what is today Londonium. They founded the Kingdom of Engaland, Raj Éire and Galles. Galles and Engaland merged together to form Britannia in 1720. The Raj was then absorbed into Britannia after a 5 year war and in 1740 a peace treaty was signed with Éire giving the northern lands to Britannia.

In 1799 a Member of Parliament for the Tories named Napoleon Blueberry ceased power with a coup d’état. He decided to let the king keep his ceremonial position but he would have to leave Londonium for an isolated villa in the Raj. In 1801 Blueberry was crowned king and therefore started the House of Blueberry. In 1809 Napoleon I died to be replaced by Louis I who decided to go to war against Éire. This war proved disastrous and Northern Éire was given back to Éire. Napoleon II was chased out of Londonium and was forced to go live next to the king in the Raj.

A neighbouring Francophone power named Marseille took over the territory. The Archbishop of Canterburminghamshire named Peter Roosevelt began winning popularity in the country following his speeches where he denounced heresy. Roosevelt then criticized the King of Marseille of heresy but the archbishop was soon placed under house arrest. In 1839 the Blueberries came back into power and freed Roosevelt. Roosevelt never officially took power but he advised the naive Napoleon III and used these powers to jail opponents of his totalitarian theocracy.

In 1844 Roosevelt was assassinated by an agent of Napoleon III the royal family was then defeated in a 14 year civil war between the Windsors and the Blueberrys. The Windsors won the war in 1859 and took power placing Edward III on the throne who attacked Éire. During this war with Éire Northern Éire was taken back and a peace treaty was signed in 1879 during the reign of George II. In 1890 Kannada was colonized and in 1895 New-Marseille was taken from Marseille. The Hurroniac, Paw Paw, Chernyshevsky, Cheerier and Jee Jee tribes proved a threat to Britannian authority in the region. The Hurroniacs were fighting a war against all the other tribes, Britannia allied themselves with the Hurroniacs and the Marseillais who were desperate to take back their land were allied with the others. In 1901 Marseille dissolved into numerous city states meaning the tribes opposing the Hurroniacs were alone during their fight. The Hurroniacs and Britannians then took most of the enemy land and the Hurroniacs were allowed to rule the defeated tribes. All the opposition at the exception of the Paw Paw tribes were crushed. Paw Paw warriors continue to be a problem to this day.

In 1933 Londonium became the biggest city in Britannia and many people left the rural areas to work in Londonium factories. In 1949 the Communist Party tried to make a coup on the government but this did not succeed. The Communists were only 300 against 3,000 police officers and they had only won 2.17% of the election’s vote. When the ban on communism was lifted in 1953 the communist party’s leader Eric Vaudet decided to reestablish his place in the party instead of winning votes. In the 1958 election they were the third largest party and the communists won the election in 1963. The communists stepped down and called for an election in 1964 following a scandal in the party showing that 90% of governmental officials from the party were stealing money from governmental banks.

In 1964 the provisional military administration began enlisting numerous people into the army and invaded the pacifist republic of Éire. Following numerous long failed attempts in the previous years the war was a huge success and lasted only a year. In 1965 the conservatives were elected to replace the communists.

In 1999 the HMS Marseille sank in Kébec on this ship was the prime minister, his whole government and the king. All of them died in the accident... George V was chosen to succeed his young father and a new Liberal government was elected. The liberal government lost their government in 2004 to the conservatives. These conservatives were known as the ‘libertarians’ and their governments included numerous people from Britannian colonies. In 2011 Labour was elected, the government’s legislation was always blocked by the opposition who had more MPs. This led to a conservative landslide where they got close to 75% of all the seats. The new conservative Prime Minister was Stanley Baldwin and he made Britannia join the League of Nations, led peacekeeping efforts in the Tomanian War, fought rebels in Tomania and he fought off a Paw Paw rebellion. Following an inability to fight off Paw Paw warriors he resigned and was succeeded by the Francophone Raphaël Olivier. Olivier used Britannia’s navy to push the Paw Paws back in-land where they were bombed massively by the RAF.

In 2021 the nation was changed from a traditionalist country to a much more modern one. Numerous people started voicing their support for the LGBTQ+ community and showed discontent in the old parties. This led to all the political parties dissolving or reforming themselves in order to adapt to this new population. The modernization led to the creation of the Progressive-Conservative party, they had conservative economic ideas, they believed in family values but they still believed in a future for the nation. In 2023 Olivier announced that the nation would vote to change the country’s name from the Kingdom of Britannia to the Grand Republic of Britannia. The Grand Republic would give more power to the Prime Minister, would allow citizens to vote on the next sovereign and would lead to the dissolution of the House of Lords and the renaming of the House of Commons to the General Assembly.