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General Anthem God Save the King Motto Dieu et mon droit Demographics Language English Population 2,300 Average level 16 Politics President Talon Karrde Party The Unity Party Economics Currency Great British Pound (GBP) Minimum salary 0.10 GBP

Last update March 17th 2012

The United Kingdom (commonly known as the UK) is a medium sized country in Western Europe. With twelve regions bordering eight other nations, this unusually large number of borders made the UK a key tactical crossroads which was frequently fought over during world wars for the ocean crossings between North America, Western Europe and Scandinavia.

Recently the UK itself has become a target for it's resources and was defeated, divided up and occupied by Canada, Ireland and France. Scotland and N.Ireland have been surrendered to Ireland in return for peace but the UK is still under occupation by France and Canada.

The UK has a relatively old community as one of the first countries in the game and has enjoyed stable national elections without foreign political takeover, until recently its internal politics were stable and arguments were limited to RP decisions.

The UK has a relatively small military capability so it relies on diplomacy and mutual protection pacts for its defence, using the influence of the few top citizens that often take leading roles in alliance headquarters. The UK has been part of many military alliances, currently being part of the ONE military alliance.

Society

Communication

The UK community offers several forums and IRC channels for eUK users. The eUK forum houses the government and all but one Political Party and Military Unit. The Rizon IRC network has channels for all Political parties, Military Units and other miscellaneous channels.

The national channels and forums have a strict moderation policy, any critisism of people in power may result in a ban.

UK National Forum

National IRC - #eUK You may want to read this article before using mibbit.

National Tutorial

The community also produces a wide range of articles; from election manifestos and guides, to flame wars and fun articles (UK National Media).

The National Newspaper Association, provides a monthly round-up of government and political news as well as quality or interesting popular articles.

History

Main article: History of the United Kingdom

The UK was originally part of the ATLANTIS alliance network until its defeat and dissolution in mid 2009. In the aftermath, the UK switched to the opposing PEACE network after disputes with Sweden and it's supporters over attacks on Germany. This flipped the UK's tactical status from a safe nation surrounded by strong allies into a new front in wars between major alliances.

The UK was then used as a land bridge to stage attacks on other nations by all alliances, most notably by Hungary in PEACE invasion of North America. The very act of switching alliances has also made the UK itself a target of ATLANTIS successor alliances EDEN and Brolliance, with several unsuccessful sieges launched to wipe the country off the map. PEACE reformed into it's successor alliance Phoenix at the end of 2009, with the UK staying in that alliance network until it dissolved in early 2011.

In February 2011 the UK become a member of the successor of Brolliance, Terra from which they subsequently withdrew from in April of the same year after an unsuccessful invasion of Belgium, claiming that Terra did not support the UK against the Belgians. Following it's withdrawal from Terra, the UK become an officially neutral supporter of the ONE alliance, which was a mix of the most powerful members of Phoenix and EDEN. It eventually joined as a full member and used this support to defeat and occasionally occupy Ireland for a few months.

In December 2011, the mis-handling of its military and foreign affairs by a series of inactive ministers and presidents has led to the complete occupation of the UK and continues to leave it without congress elections for three months. It was divided up according to the The Commonwealth Agreement by France and Ireland, with the remainder going to Canada. After negotiating region swaps with Ireland and attacks on France with ONE, the UK is currently attempting to free itself - with some success.

Geography

The UK is unique in linking Scandinavia, Western Europe and North America. With eight natural, neighboring countries and many more only a few regions away, the UK is a key tactical position in wars fought between nations in Europe and North America. This has often led to volatile borders. The UK has been variously reduced to one region or in ownership of many foreign regions via region swaps and counter attacks. The most frequent UK conquests tend to be temporary occupation of enemy bordering regions or fruit resource regions in Ireland. The UK had been wiped off the map by Canada, France and Ireland. It is in the process of regaining it's regions so many may be in the possesion of other countries.

Regions

Region Occupier Resources Map London East Midlands East of England North East of England North West of England Northern Ireland

Region Occupier Resources Map Scotland South East of England South West of England Wales West Midlands Yorkshire & Humberside

Politics

Like many other countries, the older members of the UK community have renamed the generic institutions of eRepublik as far as possible, such as Congress and the President, to assign a cultural flavour to them and an element of uniqueness. The elected members of the UK Congress are commonly called Members of Parliament (MP) and make up the national forum based House of Commons, while the President is commonly referred to as the Prime Minister.

Prime Minister

Main article: Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom

The President of the United Kingdom is the head of the UK Government, he or she appoints and manages the Ministers who perform the day-to-day administration of the country. The current Prime Minister is Talon Karrde of the The Unity Party.

Parliament

Main article: Parliament of the United Kingdom

The UK usually has 40 Congress seats, although this can fall during invasions. Each region will typically have three candidates with four wildcards making up the total of 40. As the region of London holds a large proportion of the UK population, most wildcards tend to be selected from London candidates. During the December 2011 term, there was no people in Parliament due to the invasion, which continued through to the March Presidential elections.

As well as voting on in-game proposals, the House of Commons votes on legislation in the eUK Forums. Legislation comprises of proposals written up and enforced entirely by the UK community and are not part of the in-game mechanics, legislation covers such things as constitutional issues, government structure, government procedure and any schemes or projects that might draw significant public funds.

Current Parliament

Government

Prime Minister Talon Karrde Deputy Prime Minister Elle Roslin Minister of Defence Greatmoff Minister of Home Affairs Jimbojoy
Minister of Foreign Affairs mittekemuis	Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Humphrey Appleby

Political Parties

Logo	Party Name	Abbreviation	Political Stance	Party President	Members	Congressmen	Percentage of Congress
	The Unity Party	TUP	Centre-left, Libertarian	invalidi_vozodovac1	390	7	35%
55px	UK Progression Party	UKPP	Center, Libertarian	Sir Nick Griffin	283	3	15%
55px	Every Single One	ESO	Centre-left, Libertarian	Lily Jayne Summers	189	5	25%
	United Kingdom Reform Party	UKRP	Center-right, Libertarian	Painkiller789	150	0	0%
	People's Communist Party	PCP	Far-left, Libertarian	Steeeev	88	2	10%

For political parties outside the Top 5, see the game rankings.

Military

Armed Forces

The Ministry of Defence.

Main article: British Armed Forces

The United Kingdom military has ungone many recent changes and is currently being reformed after its disbandment under Thomas765 (TUP). The new national army consists of one Military Unit operating on a commune system where all troops are supplied with the goods they produce. They fall under the command of the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence of the UK military. The army fights at home or abroad in order to defend the United Kingdom and her ONE allies.

The British Armed Forces currently recruit any citizen able to fight and are willing to travel, regardless of strength or rank. Higher skill players receive higher quality and quantity of supplies to maximize damage.

Alliances

Recent history has seen a great deal of change. The United Kingdom was once a member of the ATLANTIS alliance but adopted a policy of neutrality following the organization's dissolution, initiating a period characterized by extremely low relations with it's former allies such as the USA and Sweden. As a consequence the UK eventually joined PEACE Global Community in a memorable episode of political turmoil prior to the PEACE Invasion of North America, a controversial move as PEACE and ATLANTIS were traditionally enemies. The United Kingdom left PEACE in November 2009 after many key allies had also left. The United Kingdom became a member of the Phoenix Alliance, the successor of PEACE, on December 06, 2009. On the 24th of February 2011, the United Kingdom left Phoenix and joined 20pxTerra but left on April 25th 2011, due to dissagreements with other member nations mostly over their treatment within the alliance and foreign policy.

After leaving Terra the United Kingdom tried to maintain the Strasbourg Treaty and for a time succeeded. However with the changing political climate and growing ever-closer to ONE nations the treaty became a Non-Agression Pact despite both France and Germany remaining Terra members. It was eventually disolved (neither side will agree on the reasons), and currently the United Kingdom is at war with all of their former Terra allies.

The UK joined ONE in December as a full member nation of the alliance, having been pro-ONE for most of the year.

Wars

• France
• Canada

Economy

Tax

The UK tax system encourages maximum productivity in the companies which supply it to lower prices, increase exports and raise tax revenue. Products which the UK can produce at optimal productivity have a low local tax and high import tax, while products which the UK cannot produce with high productivity have a high local tax and low import tax.

Product Work Tax Import Tax VAT Food 99% 10% Weapon 60% 10% Aircraft weapon Moving ticket 50% 5% House 75% 5%

Raw material Work Tax Import Tax VAT Food raw material 99% - Weapon raw material 99% - Aircraft weapon raw material - House raw material -

Trade

The United Kingdom occasionally blocks trade with enemy nations. Due to poor diplomatic relations, frequent targets include Ireland and USA. For example, in June 2011 Greece and Croatia were both embargoed by Jamesw following their support of Ireland during the UK's invasion.

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