United Kingdom of America (A Lion on the Throne)

The United Kingdom of America is a constitutional monarchy with a parliament system of governance. It occupies all land in North America from the Republic of Mexico to the Arctic Pole, making it one of the largest nations in the world. It shares borders with Mexico to the south, Alaska to the northwest and has a maritime border with Greenland to the far northeast.

The current monarch is Edward II. The capital city, the District of Philadelphia, is a noted global city and financial center of the world. Other major cities include New York, Chicago, Birmingham, Charleston, Mackenzie, San Francisco, New Orleans, Dallas, Richmond and Omaha. The U.K. consists of over fifty states and the federal district of Philadelphia. The Federation of Columbia, the Kingdom of Hawaii and the Republic of Hispaniola are protectorates of the U.K.

Paleo-Indians migrated to North America from Asia at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United Kingdom emerging from thirteen British colonies on the Atlantic coast. Years of mutual distrust, economic and social inequality and misunderstanding on both sides sparked the American War for Independence and American Revolutionary Wars. A weak confederal government caused tensions to spark between the various colonies. The war hero Andrew Jackson declared himself Supreme Leader of the Confederacy, launching a coup against the government on July 4, 1789.

The United Kingdom would be formally established in the Consitutional Convention, in which the current constitution was adopted by the government. The country then embarked on a vigorous expansion across the North American continent throughout the 19th century, displacing American Indian tribes and exploiting via the Napoleonic System, acquiring new territories and gradually admitting new states until it spanned the entire continent by the 1850's. In the second half of the 19th century, civil war broke out when two contenders to the American throne fought each other, the Loyalist faction winning the war.