Foreign Nations

The UKA exists within a world of constitutional monarchies, republics, sister realms, and federal states. These articles cover the foreign nations whose histories intersect most directly with the UKA, through war, alliance, treaty, and the shared constitutional tradition of the world.

Crown Realms (shared monarch, distinct governments)

United Kingdom of Great Britain, Senior Crown realm; maritime and financial power; Britain accepted the Olive Branch in 1775
↳ Kingdom of England, Senior constituent kingdom of Great Britain; Winchester capital; Historic Kingdom Regions drawn from the Heptarchy; the Church of England and the common law
↳ Kingdom of Scotland, Constituent kingdom with its own law, Parliament, and Kirk; Edinburgh governs and Stirling remembers, while Glasgow tests whether the law reaches ordinary life
↳ Principality of Wales, Constituent principality with an entrenched bilingual constitution of 2025; Cardiff governs, Caernarfon crowns the heir, and Machynlleth remembers Glyndŵr’s parliament; a settlement of recognition without revenue that Welsh politics calls “praise without power”
↳ Duchy of Kernow, Constituent national duchy recognised distinct from England in 2025; Penzance governs the elected Seneth Kernow; St Piran’s flag and equal Cornish and English status; the civic duchy is kept strictly apart from the Duke of Cornwall’s estate, and a 2027 dispute over conflicting official texts remains unresolved
Kingdom of Ireland, Independent Crown realm since the First Great War; no partition; Irish Pound; Oireachtas Éireannach
New Wessex, Sister realm; Pacific position; shares the Crown but not the UKA’s constitutional structure; not a UKA polity
New Albion, Northern sister realm; shares the Crown; constitutionally separate from the UKA; not a UKA polity
Union of South Africa, Sovereign non-aligned Crown realm; apartheid dismantled under continuing monarchy; four-province democratic Union; Strength from Unity
Federation of Malaya, The fourteenth Crown and the only one where the King is not head of state: an elected Malay king reigns and George V is Protector
Empire of Raj, Sovereign, undivided South Asian imperial federation; independence without Partition; non-aligned nuclear power
West Indies Federation, Sovereign sixteen-state Caribbean federation under the shared Crown since 1958; survived the founding crisis; bilingual in English and Spanish; Porto Rico acceded from UKA possession

Allied and Partner Powers

German Empire, Federal imperial monarchy; Kaiser, Reichstag, Bundesrat; victor of the First Great War alongside Britain and the UKA; principal obstacle to French fascism
↳ Kingdom of Prussia, Largest constituent kingdom of Germany; Hohenzollern Crown, twelve provinces, bicameral Landtag, and the unresolved 2028 regency crisis
Kingdom of Hanover, The ancestral Crown of the House of Hanover, lost in 1837 and regained in 1840; the only Crown in the union ever separated and recovered; holds the narrow Crown Exception
Duchy of Brunswick, Parliamentary constituent duchy within Germany; historic fragments, separate Welf Crown, 1919 covenant, and industrial transition
Austria-Hungary, The Dual Monarchy; four co-equal crowns since 1920, Bohemia and Illyria elevated by imperial rescript over Hungary’s objection; allied with Germany but independent of it
Kingdom of Arabia, One continental Hashemite kingdom instead of mandates and partition; Damascus reigns, Jerusalem judges; protected Jewish and Kurdish districts; an active Crown negotiating its own limits
Empire of China, The Qing converted rather than fallen; Crown and people hold sovereignty jointly; a Mongolian constituent kingdom, a Tibetan protectorate, and an unresolved succession
Benelux Union, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands; strategic crossroads; first major theatre of the Second Great War
Empire of Japan, Pacific constitutional empire; bilateral UKA treaty ally outside the Atlantic Treaty Organization; amended Meiji Constitution and a surviving House of Peers
Kingdom of Siam, The one state of mainland south-east Asia never colonised; bilateral UKA treaty ally since 1954 and China’s close partner; no coup since 1938
Ethiopia, Never conquered: Adwa, 1896; a constitutional monarchy by the settlement of 1974, not a revolution; Eritrea federated since 1952 and Djibouti joined by referendum in 1977; treaty ally of Britain and the UKA since the Ogaden war, outside the Atlantic Treaty Organization
Kamerun, German associated state since 1955, the first converted and the only one whose head of state is the Emperor, as Kaiser von Kamerun; a Prime Minister answerable to the Landtag at Jaunde; its citizens alone are also German nationals

Empires and Non-Monarchical States

France, Defeated republic (First Great War) → fascist aggressor → French Empire (1945); the central cautionary tale of the twentieth century; constitutional parliamentary empire under Bonapartist legitimacy
↳ Duchy of Normandy, Semi-independent constituent duchy of the French Empire; “two monarchies, one state” with Emperor Napoleon VII sovereign in reserved fields and George V of Hanover the domestic Duke; Rouen governs the elected Estates; a separate League member sovereign for League purposes only; an unresolved 2027 dispute over a French submarine enclave at Cherbourg
↳ Duchy of Brittany, Semi-independent constituent duchy of the French Empire and Normandy’s twin, but its Duke is Napoleon VII himself, holding the Breton crown as a capacity legally separate from his French one; Rennes governs and Nantes crowns; laws are enacted in Breton, Gallo and French with a certified English text only for irreconcilable conflict; an unresolved 2027 offshore-energy case
Russian Empire, The great antagonist of the monarchical world as the Russian Republic, and not the Soviet Union that never came; Kolchak’s nationalist republic, holding the heartland and Siberia for a century, which in October 2028 freed its vote and restored the Romanovs
Mexico, Southern neighbour; lost northern territories in the Mexican-American War; sovereign republic; shared border with the March of Arizona
Republic of Cuba, The Sovereign Revolution (2026-07-20); centralised unitary semi-presidential republic; a revolution that democratised without restoring the old order; independent communism that arose without a Soviet Union; the unresolved Guantánamo renewal case

Federal and Post-Imperial States

Byzantine Federation, Eastern Mediterranean federal state; emerged from “later Byzantine arrangements” transforming the Ottoman world
Scandinavian Union, A confederation of five Nordic nations, three kingdoms and two republics, founded by the Treaty of Kalmar in 1949; the shield that became a home
Federal Kingdom of Nigeria, The most populous state in Africa; thirty-six states under a national crown made at independence in 1960 so that it would belong to no region; the old rulers kept ceremonial in a Council of Rulers

Constitutional Socialist Monarchies

Socialist Kingdom of Italy, The Red Crown of the Mediterranean; constitutional socialist monarchy; Crown survives by absorbing labour; allied with Germany and the UKA in both Great Wars; territorial rewards: Nice and Savoy

Figures of the Wider World

Thomas Edward Lawrence, The British officer of the Arab Revolt; a founding ally of the Kingdom of Arabia whose record is under open Royal Historical Commission inquiry

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Overview Articles on the sovereign states, Crown realms, and federal monarchies of the world: allies, rivals, neighbours, and constitutional partners of the United Kingdom of America.
United Kingdom of America The United Kingdom of America is a constitutional monarchy and asymmetrical parliamentary federation of 49 polities and the Columbia District, monarchical, chartered, rights-bound, and unmistakably American.

Great Britain and its territories 12

United Kingdom of Great Britain Senior Crown realm; the home of the King until 2028; Britain accepted the Olive Branch in 1775
Kingdom of England The largest of Britain's four nations; governed from Winchester since 2025, with London left to the union and eight regions drawn from the old kingdoms
Kingdom of Scotland Constituent kingdom with its own law, Parliament and Kirk; it voted on independence in 2024, lost narrowly, and got its settlement anyway
Principality of Wales Constituent principality with an entrenched bilingual constitution of 2025; Cardiff governs, Caernarfon crowns the heir, and Machynlleth remembers Glyndŵr's parliament; a settlement of recognition without revenue that Welsh politics calls "praise without power"
Duchy of Kernow Constituent national duchy recognised distinct from England in 2025; Penzance governs the elected Seneth Kernow; St Piran's flag and equal Cornish and English status; the civic duchy is kept strictly apart from the Duke of Cornwall's estate, and a 2027 dispute over conflicting official texts remains unresolved
Hong Kong A self-governing British territory on the Chinese coast, retained by treaty and by a referendum whose overwhelming result has settled the vote without settling the question.
Gibraltar A Crown Colony on the Spanish shore whose sovereignty dispute has quietly gone dormant, and which remains governed by an appointed Governor because nobody is willing to test what would happen if it were not.
Malta The Territory of Malta: a self-governing British territory that runs its own foreign policy, appoints its own Governor, keeps its own currency, and has voted three times on whether to become independent and said no three times.
Singapore The Territory of the City of Singapore: a self-governing British territory of one city and six million people, richer than the power that holds it, which has voted three times against independence by a margin that falls each time.
Jersey A self-governing island under the British Crown with the oldest arrangements in the corpus and a status nobody has tested
Guernsey Three islands, three parliaments and one Crown: committee government in Guernsey, an occupied and then subordinated Alderney, and a Sark that is still feudal
Isle of Man The Lordship of Mann: Tynwald and its open-air sitting, a capital at Castletown and a government at Douglas, the TT, a revived Manx, and a finance centre the island was pushed into reforming

Ireland 2

Kingdom of Ireland Independent Crown realm since the First Great War; no partition; Irish Pound; Oireachtas Éireannach
The Executive of the Kingdom of Ireland The shared executive of the Irish Crown realm, in which a President and a Crown representative divide the functions a single head of state holds elsewhere

The German Empire 12

German Empire Federal imperial monarchy; Kaiser, Reichstag, Bundesrat; victor of the First Great War alongside Britain and the UKA; principal obstacle to French fascism
Kingdom of Prussia Largest constituent kingdom of Germany; Hohenzollern Crown, twelve provinces, bicameral Landtag, and the unresolved 2028 regency crisis
Kingdom of Bavaria The Kingdom of Bavaria, second kingdom of the German Empire and the most constitutionally distinct of its member states: a Catholic monarchy of fifteen million under the House of Wittelsbach, which kept its own army, its own ambassadors, its own railways and its own beer law when it entered the Empire in 1871, and has spent a century and a half deciding which of them to keep.
Kingdom of Saxony The Kingdom of Saxony, third kingdom of the German Empire: the cradle of the Reformation ruled by a Catholic dynasty, the most densely industrialised country in Germany, and the state that lost the northern half of itself to Prussia in 1815 and has lived beside a Prussian province bearing its own name ever since.
Kingdom of Württemberg The Kingdom of Württemberg, third of the German Empire's five kingdoms by the measures that matter to it: a Swabian country of engineering, family firms and associational life, governed under a Constitution of 1819 that democratisation transformed rather than replaced, and occupied at Stuttgart by fascist France from 1939 until 1945.
Grand Duchy of Baden The Grand Duchy of Baden, a long narrow state on the right bank of the Rhine and the most legalistic of the German constituent states: a Constitution of 1818 transformed rather than replaced, a bicameral Landtag in which only the Popular Chamber grants confidence, and the host of an Imperial Constitutional Court it does not own.
Grand Duchy of Hesse The Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine, a sovereign constituent state of the German Empire in three separated provinces: Darmstadt its capital, Mainz its largest city, Frankfurt permanently outside it, and a ministry developing a framework that authorises nothing.
Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin The Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, a sovereign constituent state of the German Empire on the Baltic: Schwerin its capital and Rostock its largest city, an estate inheritance made answerable to democratic law, and a Land and Coast Compact that has authorised nothing.
Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz The Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, a sovereign constituent state of the German Empire in two separated territories: Neustrelitz its capital, Neubrandenburg its largest city, the detached Principality of Ratzeburg beyond Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and a Lakes and Connections Accord that has authorised nothing.
Kingdom of Hanover The ancestral Crown of the House of Hanover, lost in 1837 and regained in 1840; the only Crown in the union ever separated and recovered; holds the narrow Crown Exception
Duchy of Brunswick Parliamentary constituent duchy within Germany; historic fragments, separate Welf Crown, 1919 covenant, and industrial transition
Free City of Hamburg The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, a constituent state of the German Empire: a merchant republic of 2.2 million governed by a Senate and an elected Burgerschaft, the largest port in Europe, and a city that has three times been asked to pay for safety it would rather not fund.

France 4

France The nation that outlasts every form it takes: republic, fascist state and Bonapartist parliamentary empire, now tested by the Cherbourg refusal
French Third Republic 1870 to 1934: the republic of the Belle Époque and of the defeat, and the emergency article of 1889 that its last President used
Duchy of Normandy Semi-independent constituent duchy of the French Empire; "two monarchies, one state" with Emperor Napoleon VII sovereign in reserved fields and George V of Hanover the domestic Duke; Rouen governs the elected Estates; a separate League member sovereign for League purposes only; an unresolved 2027 dispute over a French submarine enclave at Cherbourg
Duchy of Brittany Semi-independent constituent duchy of the French Empire and Normandy's twin, but its Duke is Napoleon VII himself, holding the Breton crown as a capacity legally separate from his French one; Rennes governs and Nantes crowns; laws are enacted in Breton, Gallo and French with a certified English text only for irreconcilable conflict; an unresolved 2027 offshore-energy case

The Scandinavian Union 6

Scandinavian Union A confederation of five Nordic nations, three kingdoms and two republics, founded by the Treaty of Kalmar in 1949; the shield that became a home
Kingdom of Sweden The largest of the Nordic kingdoms and the seat of the Scandinavian Union: a parliamentary monarchy under Queen Christina, whose only child and heir has reigned since 31 October 2028 as George V in the fourteen capacities of the Hanoverian union, two inheritances that are not permitted to merge.
Kingdom of Denmark the kingdom that lost every argument about territory and won the argument about people
Kingdom of Norway the kingdom that found the greatest windfall in modern Europe and voted to give it away
Republic of Finland the most exposed country in the alliance, and the one that has stopped thinking about it
Republic of Iceland the country small enough to do what larger ones only discussed, and small enough for everything done to it

Europe 12

Austria-Hungary the last multinational monarchy, still standing and still arguing against the nation state
Benelux Union Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands; strategic crossroads; first major theatre of the Second Great War
Byzantine Federation Eastern Mediterranean federal state; emerged from "later Byzantine arrangements" transforming the Ottoman world
Socialist Kingdom of Italy The Red Crown of the Mediterranean; constitutional socialist monarchy; Crown survives by absorbing labour; allied with Germany and the UKA in both Great Wars; territorial rewards: Nice and Savoy
Poland-Lithuania The restored Commonwealth of the Polish and Lithuanian lands, recovered from the Russian collapse in 1918, reigning under a Wettin king who is also King of Saxony, and existing on a German guarantee it paid for by renouncing its own western provinces.
United Baltic Duchy The United Baltic Duchy, a sovereign constitutional duchy on the eastern Baltic made of three lands, Estland, Livland and Courland: proclaimed in German at Riga in 1918, won in a civil war against the Latvian and Estonian republics, occupied by Russia from 1941 to 1945, held under a German guarantee since the Treaty of Mitau, reigned over since 2001 by the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in personal union, and facing an Estonian party that wants to leave.
United Principalities of Romania two kingdoms, one sovereign, and a union that never merged
Russian Empire The great antagonist of the constitutional world, and not the Soviet Union that never came; Kolchak's nationalist republic, holding the heartland and Siberia for a century, which in two days of October 2028 freed its vote and took back its Emperor
Kingdom of Spain A federal monarchy that prosecuted the dictatorship which created it, and has never answered the question that raises about its own Crown.
Kingdom of Portugal An unbroken monarchy that fought no war in the twentieth century, was governed for forty years by a professor of economics who left on the day he said he would, and now shares its King with an empire twenty times its size.
Swiss Confederation A federal republic of twenty-six cantons and four languages, neutral by policy and armed by conviction, which joined the European Concert on terms nobody else was offered.
Vatican City the smallest state in the world, and the government of a church that blessed a socialist settlement

The Americas 10

New Albion Northern sister realm; shares the Crown; constitutionally separate from the UKA; not a UKA polity
Mexico Southern neighbour; lost northern territories in the Mexican-American War; sovereign republic; shared border with the March of Arizona
Republic of Cuba *The Sovereign Revolution* (2026-07-20); centralised unitary semi-presidential republic; a revolution that democratised without restoring the old order; independent communism that arose without a Soviet Union; the unresolved Guantánamo renewal case
Peru-Bolivian Confederation The Andean federation of three states, founded by Andrés de Santa Cruz in 1836 and still standing: a union that survived because a Chilean minister was shot, lost a war and was made permanent by it, and is the reason Bolivia has a coast.
Empire of Brazil The monarchy that had no reason to fall: continuity bought at the price of the order it preserved, and an Emperor who lives in Lisbon
Chile The Chilean Republic: a Pacific country between the Andes and the ocean, founded under a British protector it remembers with gratitude, parliamentary since its Congress won a civil war in 1891, broken once by a figurehead president who opened the door to the army in 1973, and refounded in 2023 as a plurinational republic with a new motto.
New Granada The country that was broken in 1830, put back together by consent in 1863, and lost Panama to a treaty it had signed with the Realm
Central America The union that did not break up in 1840 because two enemies made a pact, and the railway that is owned by somebody else
United Provinces of the River Plate The Spanish American revolution Britain came back for a third time and won: a Spanish-speaking realm of the Crown, with a Viceroy in the Casa Rosada
West Indies Federation Sovereign sixteen-state Caribbean federation under the shared Crown since 1958; survived the Jamaican referendum crisis of 1961; bilingual in English and Spanish; Porto Rico acceded from UKA possession

Africa and the Middle East 10

Kingdom of Arabia One continental Hashemite kingdom instead of mandates and partition; Damascus reigns, Jerusalem judges; protected Jewish and Kurdish districts; an active Crown negotiating its own limits
East African Federation the federation where the old African crowns outlived decolonisation as states, and the settlement that froze what they sat on
Ethiopia The empire of the Horn of Africa, never conquered, a parliamentary monarchy under the Solomonic house since 1974
Nigeria The most populous state in Africa, under a national crown made in 1959 to belong to none of its regions
Kamerun The first German associated state, and the only one that kept the Kaiser as head of state
Republic of Egypt and the Sudan The Nile republic that voted its king out, took the canal, and then removed the man who took it
Union of South Africa Sovereign non-aligned Crown realm; apartheid dismantled under continuing monarchy; four-province democratic Union; Strength from Unity
Algeria The Maghreb federation that was negotiated out of the French Empire in 1958 without a war, kept the settlers who would otherwise have fled, lost its republic to its own independence party for thirty years, and took it back in 1998.
Morocco The only Maghreb state that was never Ottoman and never lost its dynasty: taken from fascist France by Britain in 1940, reunited from the north, independent in 1956, and governed since by a throne that saved the country from every catastrophe around it and will not now let go of it.
Persia The monarchy nobody could call foreign, and was therefore never removed when it should have been

Asia and the Pacific 10

Empire of China The Qing converted rather than fallen; Crown and people hold sovereignty jointly; a Mongolian constituent kingdom, a Tibetan protectorate, and an unresolved succession
Empire of Japan Pacific constitutional empire; bilateral UKA treaty ally outside the Atlantic Treaty Organization; amended Meiji Constitution, a surviving House of Peers, and an Emperor who kept his throne by admitting what it had done
The Kingdom of Korea the country that was occupied, liberated and never cut in half
Empire of Raj Sovereign, undivided South Asian imperial federation; independence without Partition; non-aligned nuclear power
Kingdom of the Philippines A country that fought a war to be a republic, was made a kingdom by the power that defeated it, and then found a use for the Crown that neither side had intended.
The Kingdom of Siam the buffer kingdom that kept its throne and lost its edges
Malaya The fourteenth Crown, and the only one where the King does not reign: a diarchy of an elected Malay king and a protector who appears on nothing
Indonesia Seventeen thousand islands, fifteen states and one bargain: the federation that was supposed to be dissolved in 1950 and was not
Republic of Vietnam The century's only enduring communist state, which never had a foreign master to obey, has given away everything except the monopoly, and is now watching Cuba give away that too.
New Wessex Sister realm; Pacific position; shares the Crown but not the UKA's constitutional structure; not a UKA polity