Nations of the World

The Universal Register covers the nations that share the world with the United Kingdom of America, through war, alliance, trade, treaty, shared monarchy, and a century of transforming settlement. These articles cover the sovereign states whose histories intersect most directly with the UKA and with each other.

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• United Kingdom of Great Britain, The senior Crown realm; maritime power; Britain accepted the Olive Branch in 1775 and changed history
• Kingdom of England, Senior constituent kingdom of Great Britain; governed from Winchester; Historic Kingdom Regions drawn from the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy; home of the Church of England and English common law
• Kingdom of Scotland, Constituent kingdom of Great Britain with its own Scots law, Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, and the Church of Scotland; a dual capital where Edinburgh governs and Stirling remembers, while Glasgow tests whether the law reaches ordinary life
• Principality of Wales, Constituent principality of Great Britain; an entrenched bilingual constitution, a ceremonial heir, and an unresolved dispute over equalisation
• Duchy of Kernow, Constituent national duchy of Great Britain; a directly elected executive and equal Cornish and English status
• Kingdom of Ireland, Independent Crown realm since the First Great War; the Rising’s leaders were not executed; no partition; Dual Executive
• New Wessex, Sister realm with a Pacific position; shares the Crown but not the UKA’s constitutional structure
• New Albion, Northern sister realm; Crown, Parliament, Province, Treaty, Ice, and Reckoning
• Union of South Africa, The Crown realm that never became a republic; apartheid, truth, four-province democratic Union, and the question of whether reconciliation can compel
• West Indies Federation, Sixteen Caribbean states federated under the shared Crown since 1958; the federation that survived its founding crisis, with elected state Governors, an equal-state Senate, and English and Spanish as official languages
• United Provinces of the River Plate, The Spanish American revolution Britain came back for and kept; a Spanish-speaking, Catholic, federal realm of the Crown since 1910
• Empire of Brazil, The only large state of the Americas that has never been a republic; abolition paid for, the generals refused in 1964, and an Emperor who lives in Lisbon
• German Empire, Federal imperial monarchy; victor of the First Great War; principal obstacle to French fascism
• Kingdom of Prussia, Largest constituent kingdom of Germany; twelve provinces, a bicameral Landtag, three-seat capital, minor Hohenzollern sovereign, and a pending judgment on the Regency Council’s dismissal of the elected ministry
• Kingdom of Bavaria, Second kingdom of the German Empire and the most constitutionally distinct of its member states
• Kingdom of Saxony, The cradle of the Reformation ruled by a Catholic dynasty; it holds the Polish crown returned in 1921 and holds it still
• Kingdom of Württemberg, Swabian kingdom of the German Empire, third of its five kingdoms by the measures Württemberg considers to matter
• Kingdom of Hanover, Constituent kingdom under the House of Welf; the Hanoverian law that barred Victoria and separated the crowns in 1837
• Grand Duchy of Baden, A long narrow state on the right bank of the Rhine and the most legalistic of the German states
• Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine, A sovereign constituent state of the German Empire in three separated provinces
• Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Baltic constituent state of the German Empire, governed from Schwerin
• Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, The smaller Mecklenburg, a sovereign constituent state in two separated territories
• Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, A merchant republic of 2.2 million inside an imperial monarchy
• Duchy of Brunswick, The Small Crown inside Germany; personal union without governmental union, industrial covenant, and the question of whether a small state can hold the great machine
• Austria-Hungary, The Dual Monarchy of Austria and Hungary, formally, four co-equal crowns since 1920; Bohemia and Illyria elevated by imperial rescript over Hungary’s objection
• France, Defeated republic, fascist state, reconstituted as the French Empire; the cautionary tale of the twentieth century
• Duchy of Normandy, Semi-independent constituent duchy of the French Empire; separate domestic government under a Welf Duke
• Duchy of Brittany, Semi-independent constituent duchy with a trilingual legal order and a three-order parliament
• Mexico, Southern neighbour shaped by the Mexican-American War and a shared border history
• Republic of Cuba, The revolutionary republic that kept both words; independent communism without a Soviet Union, a Communist Party that surrendered its monopoly and later lost the presidency, and a joint base whose lease still begins in 1903
• Poland-Lithuania, The restored Commonwealth of two co-equal nations; recovered from the Russian collapse in 1918 under a Wettin king who also reigns in Saxony, and bought its existence by renouncing the German provinces
• United Baltic Duchy, Estland, Livland and Courland under a Mecklenburg crown and a German guarantee; the Estonian union question unresolved before the Ducal Court
• Russian Empire, The great antagonist of the cold war as the Russian Republic; built from the wreckage of the Romanov empire by Admiral Kolchak’s victory in the civil war, never a Soviet Union, and since 25 October 2028 a constitutional monarchy under the restored Romanovs
• Scandinavian Union, Three kingdoms and two republics bound by the Treaty of Kalmar of 1949; the Nordic confederation seated at Stockholm
• Kingdom of Sweden, Largest of the Nordic kingdoms and seat of the Union; Queen Christina reigns, and her only child is her heir and, since 31 October 2028, King George V
• Benelux Union, The Low Countries at the crossroads of Europe; first theatre of the Second Great War
• Kingdom of Arabia, The continental Hashemite kingdom born of the Arab Revolt; eight regions, protected Jewish and Kurdish districts, public oil wealth, and an active Crown now negotiating its own limits
• Byzantine Federation, Eastern Mediterranean federal state; the Greco-Ottoman dual structure that transformed the post-Ottoman world
• Socialist Kingdom of Italy, The Red Crown; constitutional socialist monarchy; Crown survives by absorbing the labour movement
• Empire of Raj, Sovereign, undivided South Asian federation sharing the monarch; Raj Constitution of 1947; Freedom through Federation
• Empire of China, The Qing constitutional empire; a Mongolian constituent kingdom, a Tibetan protectorate, two equal scripts, and an unresolved succession
• Empire of Japan, Pacific constitutional empire; defeat and democratic continuity under the amended Meiji Constitution; Throne, Peace, Memory, and Normality
• Federation of Malaya, The fourteenth Crown: a diarchy of an elected Malay king and a protector who appears on nothing; independent in 1957, joined by Sarawak and Sabah in 1963
• Kingdom of Siam, The buffer kingdom of the Chao Phraya, never colonised; at war with France in 1917, among the Allies by a rising in 1945, a UKA treaty ally since 1954
• Federal Kingdom of Nigeria, The most populous state in Africa; an Ijaw house on a crown made in 1960 so that none of three regions would own it, a reserve power used once in 1966, and a royal silence through the blockade of Biafra
• Ethiopia, The empire that was never conquered; Adwa in 1896, an emperor who reigns under the settlement of 1974, a Prime Minister answerable to Parliament, a federated Eritrea, and the Tigray war of 2020 to 2022
• Kamerun, The German associated state that kept the Kaiser; converted first, in 1955, with a Landtag at Jaunde, a port at Duala, and an argument over what association costs

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