British Empire

The **British Empire** (brɪt.ɪʃ ˈem.paɪə, Hindustani: अंग्रेजी साम्राज्य, tr. Angrezi Saamraajy and French: Empire Britannique), commonly referred to as the **Empire** or **Indian Empire**, is a sovereign state located in North America, the Caribbean, Oceania and South Asia. It consists of seven constituent countries:  Australia,  Canada,  Hindustan,  Kashmir,  Khalistan,  New Zealand and  West Indies. Because of great cultural and linguistic differences as well as geographic distance between its constituencies, the British Empire has a very devolved character of governance as the countries participate on a basis of equality as partners in the Empire and are represented proportionally in parliament. The British Empire borders  Makhara, the  United Commonwealths and  Vostok as  Canada,  Central America and  Yucatán as  West Indies,  Assam,  Dremoshong and  Druk Yul through its condominium  Gorkhaland, and  Afghanistan,  Bengal,  China,  Dravida Nadu,  Tibet and  Gorkha as  Hindustan,  Kashmir and  Khalistan respectively.

The Empire is the world’s largest country and second most populous country after  China with an estimated population of 1,249,447,000, while by far the most of its population is centered in the urban regions of  Hindustan. The nation's capital and largest city is Delhi, a global city with a metropolitan population of 28.5 million. Delhi was the object of great immigration for British people since the economic downfall of  Britain after WW2 but alone in 1962 more than one million British citizens moved to the city as a consequence of the Royalist Exile. This created a unique melting pot of British and local culture that has shaped the British Empire ever since. Other important cities include the summer capital and imperial residence of Shimla, Bombay, Karachi, Lahore, Ahmedabad, Surat, Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, Auckland and Kingston. The British Empire has three official languages: English, Hindustani and French. Although its compulsory to learn both English and Hindustani at school, most residents of  Australia,  Canada,  New Zealand and  West Indies only speak English with some French speaking regions in  Canada and the  West Indies.

The British Empire is a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy with the central power being vested in the Imperial Diet which is tricameral but has four parts, consisting of the sovereign (Crown in Parliament), the House of Lords, the Imperial House and the House of Commons. The monarch Charles III, has reigned as both Padishah of India, King of Canada and monarch of the other constituencies and Commonwealth Realms since the death of his mother Elizabeth II in 2022. The Title Act of 2022 made Charles III the first British monarch to be called Padishah-King instead of King-Emperor.

The British Empire as a nation state was created by the Royalists out of the loyal remainders of the former colonial  British Empire in 1962. The  British Empire had effectively ceased to exist when the Parliament of Great Britain decided to abolish the monarchy as Queen-Empress Elizabeth II declined to start accession negotiations with  Ireland and  Brittany to create a state union. The royal family and the Royalists fled to their Canadian and Indian possessions, where a British government in exile was soon created. The governments of  Canada,  Hindustan,  Pakistan,  Kashmir,  Khalistan,  New Zealand,  Australia and  West Indies quickly pledged allegiance to the new British government in the Empire Acts and agreed on the creation of a quasi federation of equals under the assent of Queen-Empress Elizabeth II to oppose the Republican government of  Great Britain.

The new state did not align itself with either of the two competing Cold War blocks and remained a neutral nation, despite having extensive ties with  Germany. Most nations didn’t recognize the British Empire as a nation state and instead treated the constituencies as their own countries. This changed when the Imperial Government revoked its claims on the British Isles during the Pakistani-Afghan War in 1982, simultaneously establishing relations with the  Anglo-Celtic Commonwealth. After that all nations recognized the British Empire as a legitimate nation and in the following, the entire Empire replaced  Hindustan‘s seat in the  United Nations Security Council. Today the British Empire and  Germany form the Berlin-Delhi Axis, considerably the most powerful alliance in the world.

Over the last decades, the Empire has become a fast-growing major economy and a hub for information technology services, with an expanding middle class. It has a space program which includes several planned or completed extraterrestrial missions. Indo-British movies, music, and spiritual teachings play an increasing role in global culture. The British Empire has substantially reduced its rate of poverty, though at the cost of increasing economic inequality. The Empire is recognized as a great power and as a nuclear-weapon state, which ranks high in military expenditure. The Empire is a leading member of the  Commonwealth of Nations, the  Non-Aligned Movement, the  United Nations, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the  South Asian Association (SAA), the Bay of Bengal Initiative and the Rio Pact.