New Britain (1983: Doomsday)

New Britain is a state located in southern Africa. It acted as a homeland for British survivors of Doomsday led by Kind Andrew I.. New Britain is known by many names, including New Blighty, Third British Empire and the British African Empire. Since its formation, New Britain has done much to make the previous injustices of apartheid illegal.

History

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Regions

 * Makana
 * Kouga
 * Ndlambe
 * Camdeboo
 * Sunday's River Valley
 * Blue Crane Route
 * Kou-Kamma
 * Baviaans 
 * Ikwezi
 * Aberdeen Plain
 * Mandela City
 * : New Britain has established a small colony in Antarctica in an effort to see if they can tap the natural resources located there.
 * Saint Helena

Law
New Britain's way of maintaining order and stopping the various ethnic groups from collapsing into civil war is through instilling an idea of community, embracing the "cultural unity" of the Old Empire. When that doesn't work, the government falls back on the "Establishment of the Realm act". The act allows government representatives to keep law and order in their territory through draconian punishment. Minor crimes get lashes and time in the stockade, while major crimes such as murder are punishable by death. Treason is punishable by summary exacution by firing squad

Politics
The British Imperial Party was elected in a landslide, promising the return of New Britain onto the international scene, an end to corruption ans no more fawning to the League of Nations. Parliament has passed the Imperial Amendment, which basically renames the Realm of New Britain to the Empire of New Britain. Parliament has passed an amendment that encourages immigration to New Britain from any country in the former Commonwealth, the former United States and Africa.

Military
The military of New Britain is deeply respected since it was them who founded the nation and set up the government that initiated the Exodus. It has fought in many engagements against KwaXhosa and the Orange Free State as well as attacking various warlords. The New British people are deeply pained to know that their occupation of KwaXhosa cost them their Observer Status in the League of Nations. However this doesn't stop the Armed Forces from being large. On October 12th British forces were officially withdrawn from KwaXhosa though a large border garrison exists to ensure KwaXhosan compliance to the Britano-Xhosa Treaty.

On September 15th 2009, New Britain attacked various warlordships to the north and extended its frontier dramatically. There were scenes of great jubilation in Port Elizabeth as well as in the liberated provinces.

Although the navy is by far the largest and best equipped of the Armed Forces, the RAF and the Army are being re-equipped in tandem with the expansion in industry.

The most elite regiment in the New British army is the Special Air Services, made up of the remains of former units of the SAS, SBS, and the Rhodesian SAS.

Other regiments include: the Life Guards, the Grenadier Guards, the Parachute Regiment, the Rifles, the Green Jackets, the Royal Hussars, and the Light Dragoons. The first two are the household regiments the rest are the regulars.

Economy
New Britain has strove to maintain a semblance of free market policy, but the post-Doomsday developments forced them to adopt nationalization. Because of this socialism has a strong influence on government politics. The economy of New Britain is primarily agricultural. Many of the farms have been settled by refugees under government supervision. The government has also began a program to redistribute the wealth of the upper class to the still poor majority.

Many British people who fled to South Africa believe that the cause of World War III was industrialization and prefer the simple life. However other people, particularly Asians and Africans who had lived in poverty before Doomsday alongside some of the less well off British, want to reconstruct New Britain as an industrial nation. This division is one of the issues often discussed in the New British Parliament.

Technological progress has been slow, as the country concentrates more on building up former prosperity. It currently has little in funding for renewable resources, with its efforts aimed at utilizing the existing energy infrastructure. Recently a mass industrialisation has begun in an effort to make New Britain's influence felt on the international scene.

Unemployed people are being put on the production lines or are being given basic training in politics, management and economics. The fact that the production lines in question are churning out tanks, machinery, artillery, armaments, ammunition, aircraft and bombs seems particularly intimidating to surrounding African nations.

Religion
In the aftermath of Doomsday, faith in organised religion was brought to the brink. Christianity is still the dominant religion in New Britain, Anglicansim having evolved into Britannicism. Britannicism is basically Anglicansim that has absorbed the remnants of the Church of Scotland and Ireland as well as various African aspects. Other elements from the Asian community in South Africa have been added as well. However the atheist community constitutes a large proportion to the populace. Many theologians have observed that though Doomsday brought the greatest threat to religion ever seen, its very severity was its salvation. So bad was Doomsday that people looked to a higher being to help them where common humanity could not. A few new religions have sprung up in New Britain. Camelotism preaches the way of the warrior, combining ancient scruples of the knights of old with traditional aspects of the tribal warrior. Albionism believes that the British themselves are demi-gods, destined to survive the greatest catastrophes and battle against the greatest odds. And finally the Cult of the Once and Future King. This cult believes that Arthur was a god and that all Kings and Queens of the British are the continuance of that divine lineage and are blessed by the hand of the almighty.

International Relations
New Britain has dropped all claims on the British Isles in order to ensure co-operation.

New Britain's observer status in the League of Nations was suspended for their continued occupation of KwaXhosa. Following the Britano-Xhosa Treaty, KwaXhosa's military is limited but the country itself is not occupied by New Britain anymore. Membership of the League has been requested again.

In 1984 the (BSA) was created to help British refugees in Australia. Since contact was reestablished with New Britain, the BSA has worked to encourage British immigration to New Britain.

New Britain claims the area of Southwest Africa, under the claim that since the collapse of the South African government, the mandate on it passed into the hands of the legitamate successor to the British Parliament, in this case New Britain.

New Britain and the Azanian League jointly rule KwaXhosa.

New Britain has proposed a new Commonwealth.

Current Situation
Currently, New Britain is attaining new heights in technology and industry as it expands its infrastructure. The Pound is become stronger in Southern Africa and British goods such as automobiles and consumer electronics are some of the best quality in the region. The British Imperial Party won the general election and it is instituting many policies which make New Britain seem very menacing to its neighbours. Feeling towards KwaXhosa and the League of Nations is generally negative, most people thinking that the League defends 'a nation of hardliners and terrorists' from one of the few stable, democratic nations in the region. The military is expanding with the addition of the 'Auxiliaries', who are unemployed people subsumed into the Armed Forces.

Flag

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In a show of power the British Imperial Party dominated Parliament voted in a new flag and coat of arms on January 8th 2010. The flag and coat of arms take care to represent the dominant aspects of British society, Britishness and African culture.