United Commonwealth
Ahh, yes, the United Commonwealth is a union of every country that British (*coughs in the majority of the soldiers in these forces being conscripted refugees from outside of the British Isles at the same time as any militia force that fought alongside the British being classed as British forces*) forces "freed" from Goner occupation, as well as all the places that have been colonized by those countries. I see no potential problems for the fact that none of these "freed" nations had the option of not joining the United Commonwealth or how every country within it is a very obvious puppet state.
Structure
So you've got yourself a sort of Parliament but for the leaders of each and every one of these nations, each of which has its own Parliament. This Parliament has an elected Supreme Minister from among its members (basically the leader of the biggest party), who gets to do things like declare wars, end wars, suspend Parliament in emergency situations, draw the borders of countries in the UCW, draw internal country borders for the countries of the UCW (I fail to see how those last 2 could be abused to ensure the same party always stays in power), apply death orders ("kill on sight and have a team actively search for") without reason, and in general can act as a dictator if they merely play know which cards to play. The military is, however, completely outside of politics and the Supreme General has the right to suspend Parliament and democracy in general whenever there is a war on to save resources and can be handed complete power by the Supreme Minister during said wars.
Public Agenda
Kick alien ass, keep humanity from infighting (success followed by failure). This later turned to "Well boys its territory yoinking time".
Assets
Arguably the best weaponry during the Goner Invasions as they merged human and Goner technology in their weapons and armour to make guns that could fire the same plasma bolts as the Goners with a slightly lower rate of fire at the same time as being able to fire metal bullets at massive rates of fire and amounts of force in each bullet because they were railguns too. They have the largest territory on Earth by landmass, including varying environments. General Aramis (the sexy clever beast). The Antarctic (???).
History
So, France, Spain and Portugal have just been hippitty hoppittied into being Goner property, with Eastern Europe and the Middle East on their way to being Goner territory as well and with Africa having already been overrun. The British Isles are, however, pretty safe from the Goners due to the Channel and their anti-aircraft defenses. Countless refugees from Europe and Africa flee to these islands, dramatically increasing the population of these island, alongside numerous soldiers from fallen militaries.
General Aramis, after years of smashing small Goner forces through clever tactics and being very anti-putting-soldiers-at-risk, comes to the British Isles after being invited to have a high position in the military. This is very important because:
The Goners, using a fleet of ships stolen from civilians in conquered territory, attempt to cross the Channel to launch an attack on the British Isles. Aramis is essential to the success of the defense with his simple tactic: get the most suicidal fighters you can and send them right into the midst of the enemy so that, when tonnes of plasma shots pass through them, those same plasma shots pass through all of the ships, sinking them. In other words, the Goners sink their own fleet (and Goners can't swim) and the only cost was a few thousand already-suicidal individuals. Messed up? Yes. Effective? Also yes.
With West Europe relatively short on Goner soldiers due to the failed attack, Aramis took the opportunity to completely disregard the fact that he didn't actually have the rank to launch an attack on West Europe - let alone encourage the Scandinavian Union to launch an attack into East Europe. However, due to the success of his strategies and the fact that the soldiers were more likely to obey him (something about "I'm less likely to die following his plan than anyone else's"), the UK just gave him the title of Supreme General.
After taking Western Europe, Aramis pushed into Africa, winning battle after battle against the Goners by wearing them down before each battle and making sure to take them by surprise. The only part of Africa not taken out of Goner hands was Somalia and its disputed territory (as the Indian Republics managed to snag that). Aramis would then be vital to the removal of Goner fortresses from Antarctica during the 2nd Goner Invasion. He would later die due to a drug overdose as PTSD, deep rooted depression, a loss of purpose as a peace deal had been signed with the Goners, suppressed mourning finally arising as he was no longer distracted from the deaths of his loved ones and frequent agony in the lower halves of his legs (despite them not being there) finally caught up with him and he used a bad solution to the problem.
If only he'd put himself to combat training because that peace deal was total bulls**t. 15 years after the peace deal was made, humanity launched its own attack with the Goner Remover 9000 and took over the Goner Empire for its own uses. The United Commonwealth was very much in favour of equally splitting the gains from the Human Counter-Attack because it only made 1/8 of the gains.
The United Commonwealth had the luck of getting to own the Goner homeworld (+10 Symbolic Power boost) and all the Goner Empire government secrets within the Imperial Palace on the planet, including many failed or incomplete experiments that they would try to unfail and complete themselves to get better weapons than everyone else.
Oh boy, kids, you hear that? It's the Goner Rebellion! The United Commonwealth makes 1/3 of the Goners rebelling in their territory chill the hell out by telling them that humans will be banned from living on the Goner homeworld and that the Goner homeworld can essentially be its own nation (*coughs in it actually being a puppet state*) so long as it remains a buddy of the United Commonwealth. This makes putting down the rebellion easier for them as 1/3 less enemies means 1/3 less likely to get shot or run out of bullets but they also got far less help from the Incursion (since when are militias this well organised?) than most other nations because of this. They pull through nonetheless and tell the Incursion members that they were very naughty for using the Goner Remover 9000 because it's a "war crime".
The Incursion didn't like this. In fact, they didn't like this, along with the actions of other nations after the Goner Rebellion ranging from confiscation of weapons to not giving the Incursion money so much that they decided they were gonna take over all 6 Nations. They failed but hey would you look at that space piracy is now way more of a problem and a tonne of people died!
Well well well, if it ain't Humanity War 3. The UCW actually makes decent gains in this time against the Indian Republics. Not much else to say besides the big death rates.
Finally, the United Commonwealth ends. A coup, orchestrated by one of the founders of the UHN, brought the UCW to a sudden non-existance. F.
Disbandment
A coup followed by a merger with another couped nation followed by a renaming.
Demography and Population
Brits and French and Portugues and Spanish and almost everyone native to Africa is native to the UCW. However, what is the world without people moving between locations and so we have plenty of Asians, Americans (both North and South) and Australians (especially those trying not to belong to the Oriental Empire).
Territories
Everything West of Germany within Europe and almost all of Africa. Tonnes of islands as they just went around claiming them after the US's whole "hippitty hoppitty Ireland is our property" business. About 1/5.5 of total human territory due to territory taken from the Indian Republics and starting out with 1/6 after the conclusion of the Human-Goner War.
Military
Aramis was an utter beast and the UCW wanted more beasts. Those with command over large numbers of soldiers need to have received both training and testing in strategy, as well as having served as basic rookie soldiers (the LIR and pirates exist as a means of "guys we can fling soldiers at" when there isn't a war between the 6 Nations)
Technological Level
Tiny bit ahead of the others when it comes to secret stuff but on the civilian level they're the same as everyone else.
Religion
Religious tolerance is decided by the individual nations within the UCW, although most allow just about anything that doesn't include anything dodgy like human sacrifice or overly cruel animal sacrifice.
Foreign Relations
Good friends with the Scandinavian Union (can we haz Jeb?), Oriental Empire (tech and anime plz) and US (yay common language) but they've hit a rough patch with the Indian Republics with that whole taking of Somalia thing, as well as an attempt to claim Madagascar as Indian Republican territory because they deported lots of Indians there and claimed that, because of most of its population now being Indian, it should be Indian property (the Indian Republic was doing pro gamer moves and that annoyed the other 5 Nation newbs). They're neutral towards the Russian Federation but have to pretend to dislike them whenever the Scandinavian Union is around.
Agriculture & Industry
Pre-Human-Counter-Attack: They import a fair bit of food as much of Africa, where most of the population is, isn't that farming-friendly due to a combination of much of it already being yummy-making hostile and parts being made hostile by climate change and the actions of the Goners while they were in Africa. Highly industrialized with the large amounts of resources in Africa.
Post-Human-Counter-Attack: Comparatively non-industrialized (still very industrialized), lots of food that they export to the Indian Republics, financial advice and creative work done by many companies that traverse borders but originate in and pay taxes to the UCW.
Education
UCW: *snorts cocaine* MAKE THEM CLEVERER!
Yeah pretty good education system, I'll give them that.
Infrastructure
Goner settlements are generally left alone by civilians as they're instead sites of investigations by the government or museums or housing areas where the prices are so high that nothing short of being a billionaire will get you a flat there. Therefore they love themselves some circular towers with flats along the edges and lots of stairs and gardens in the middle. Nice.
DISBANDED/DISSOLVED
"Humanity first", "Shoot aliens, ride space ships", etc.
2035 - 2178
Type
Political, Federation
Capital
Alternative Names
British Empire 2, Electric Boogaloo. The Second British Empire. The Franco-British Empire. The Unwilling Federation.
Training Level
Professional
Veterancy Level
Veteran
Demonym
Commonwealthers, Comwelthers, Brit-slaves, etc.
Government System
Democracy, Parliamentary
Power Structure
Federation
Economic System
Mixed economy
Currency
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Major Exports
Creative industries are the biggest. Books/comics, shows/movies (especially comedic, trippy or depressing) and so on.
Major Imports
Consumer goods... so many... why do you need so many video games and animes?
Legislative Body
Each internal nation has its own Parliament making its own laws but there's also the higher Parliament that makes the rules that affect everyone.
Judicial Body
Police, judge, jury, executioner... I don't think I know what a Judicial Body is...
Location
Official Languages
Related Professions
Controlled Territories
Neighboring Nations
Notable Members
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