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"Dieu et mon droit"
Capital: London
Government: Constitutional Monarchy
Chief of State: Queen Elizabeth II
Prime Minister: Prime Minister David Cameron
Population: 61 million
Major Cities:
London (capital)
Manchester
Birmingham
Liverpool
Economy: The UK, a leading trading power and financial center, is one of the quintet of trillion dollar economies of Western Europe. Over the past two decades, the government has greatly reduced public ownership and contained the growth of social welfare programs. Agriculture is intensive, highly mechanized, and efficient by European standards, producing about 60% of food needs with less than 2% of the labor force. The UK has large coal, natural gas, and oil reserves; primary energy production accounts for 10% of GDP, one of the highest shares of any industrial nation. Services, particularly banking, insurance, and business services, account by far for the largest proportion of GDP while industry continues to decline in importance. Since emerging from recession in 1992, Britain's economy has enjoyed the longest period of expansion on record; growth has remained in the 2-3% range since 2004, outpacing most of Europe. The economy's strength has complicated the Labor government's efforts to make a case for Britain to join the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Critics point out that the economy is doing well outside of EMU, and public opinion polls show a majority of Britons are opposed to the euro. The BROWN government has been speeding up the improvement of education, health services, and affordable housing at a cost in higher taxes and a widening public deficit.
History: Despite the utter failure of the US economy, and the subsequent lack of stability in the former superpower, the United Kingdom was able to insulate itself within it's own trading bloc, the European Union. Securing trade deals with allied states like France, Spain, and Germany, the UK estabilished a firm control over it's own local economy and was able to safely navigate the mires of the international devaluation of currencies and the decline of various nations like the United States.
In 2009, Gordon Brown called for early elections and won another term as Prime Minister. With it, came the end of British involvement in Iraq, and with the dissolution of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), involvement in Afghanistan. British troops staged a full withdrawal from both theaters by 2011. In 2015, Gordon Brown was replaced by David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party. Together with a majority Conservative government, they increased funding for the military, and secured the local economy for what they foresaw as the "long haul", as nations around the world seemed to disintegrate.
Royal Army:
110,000 Regular Forces
34,000 Territorial Forces
7,500 Royal Marines (Commando)
Royal Navy:
2 Aircraft Carriers
17 Frigates
8 Destroyers
9 SSNs
4 SSBNs
25 Fleet Escorts
Royal Air Force
41,440 personnel
1,077 various aircraft
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