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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. Ireland closed their war and allowed UK congress elections to happen in exchange for Scotland and Northern Ireland. They also promised Irish regions for the UK which has so far not happened because the UK is still being occupied 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, it's internal politics are also fairly stable with the main parties tending to be years old.
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 politics focused 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 can be heavily moderated, anything judged to be spam, trolling, racism or insulting other members could result in a ban.
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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
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.
The UK became more dependant on it's allies for protection after disbanding most of it's military, so in December 2011 a decline in power of ONE led to the tables being turned in the UK-Ireland-Canada conflict. A rapid decline in relations with France caused them to join in the war too, leading to the first complete occupation of the UK and leaving 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 the UK is currently attempting to free itself with mixed 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.
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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 sometimes 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.
Country President
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.
Congress
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. Starting from the December 2011 elections there were no people in Congress due to the invasion, which continued through to the successful March 2012 elections.
As well as voting on in game proposals, the UK Congress discusses sensitive issues and votes on proposals on the national forums.
Government
Political Parties
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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. During the months of December and January, Thomas765 and Kravenn began embargoing EDEN nations that dumped products on the UK market. France became a target of this by Kravenn's term as CP and the French were consequently embargoed for 11 months.
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