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The United Commonwealth is the evolution of the British Empire in the [[Sacrifice of Angel's]] timeline. This timeline diverges from [[OTL]] on May 20th 1940 when a series of Nuclear explosions devastate Germany, America and the Soviet Union after a series of dimensional rifts open linking the planet with another where a limited Nuclear exchange occured bettween Russia and the United States.
Following this Stalin, Hitler and Roosovelt were all presumed dead along with most of the political staff of their countries. In addition the german army supply lines were destroyed and the troops demoralised by what had occured in their homeland. This enabled the British and the French to mount a successful counterattack and the German's sued for peace in on July 31st 1940.
Across much of the world the devestation destroyed governments and tore apart countries. Russia fell into anarchy as it's systems fell apart and the united States suffered a long dibilitating civil war. This only got worse3worses over the next few months as a monstrous plague [[The living Death]] took hold around the world killing about half the planet's population. This was followed by a very hard winter that killed millions more and by the mid 1940's parts of the planet were totally depopulated. Outside of the Empire and a few other places only anarcy reigned.
A devastated Germany meanwhile built a new democratic system and forged a survival alliance with Britain to aid in rebuilding. France was also badly hit by fallout from Germany and this as well as the damage from the invasion soured relations between the two countries for good, in addition the French were angry with the British for supporting a former enemy.