England, 2024
Led by Gov Sadiq Khan, the Free City of London applies for EU membership.
Though wary of Jacobites, a panicked Lord Protector Boris the Pasty orders Chief Justiciar Rees-Mogg's army away from the bloody Snowdonia Front to reinforce the assault on the Luton Salient.
Meanwhile, in Ulster, Protestant and Catholic alike has found it rather easy to accustom themselves to things like the Euro, harp-embossed burgundy passports, and no food queues.
While High Constable Ashdown remains confident in the Metropolitan Militia's ability to defend Luton and hold the Chiltern Line against the Royalist offensive, there are fears that the more militant Corbynite Action Committees may be planning an insurrection behind the lines.
Though there are still disputes over oil and the occasional Unionist mail bomb, life in Scotland has been rather sleepy since independence. Many are wondering whether PM Sturgeon will stay on to preside over the fifth anniversary celebrations of Scotland's admission to the EU.
From his hold deep in the abandoned coal mines of South Wales, Bard-King Tom sings the war songs of his people as Royalist jets blast the coked earth overhead into a smoldering hellscape.
A sun will rise, the Songster sings,
A sun will rise all red
To melt away the Saesneg boot!
Despite hopes of anti-Royalist forces in the North coalescing into a much needed Second Front, the Yorkshire Milneite Brigades have focused on purging territories under their control of “Blairites” and “Red Tory Scum.”
Whenever asked if they regret relocating to Canada, and whether they would consider returning to England, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex find it impossible to restrain their laughter.
Having declared independence just as several Vanguard-class submarines were holidaying at Penzance, the Republic of Kernow finds itself among the world’s nuclear powers.
A hefty bargaining chip when negotiating terms of Re-Union with Lord Protector Boris’s flailing regime.
Confronted by reporters at a Mykonos hotel, former PM Theresa May castigates the Greek press for its denigrating portrayal of the English and rude cartoons ridiculing “Anglo-Saxon Spongers,” before asking if anyone would like a newspaper or coffee with their morning wake up call.
In Leicester, locals are beginning to get fed up with the queues at Tesco.
In Rosenfeld, Manitoba (pop. 4,125), newcomers Cam Davidson and wife Gwen look forward to a quiet life away from the "hustle and bustle and shaming oinks" of city life.
England 2024
Traveling down the M6 has become rather a lot more interesting since the Sundering, despite the best efforts of Lord Protector Boris's troops and their "convoy system."
Though he hasn't been seen in public for three years, Jeremy Corbyn remains alive and well, contrary to "Red Tory Blairite ZioScum slander." Commissar Milne assures us that the Absolute Boy is directing the great class struggle from his secure location with "Stakhanovite vigor."
Transferring through Birmingham New Street station just isn't what it used to be.
England 2024
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU VOTED CUK?!"
England 2024
Nigel Farage has not stopped laughing in five years. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, our Nigel. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
Though enjoying its independence and a growing reputation as the "Monaco of the North," the Manx Consortium and the merchant-princes of its Governing Board struggle to cope with the waves of refugees fleeing across the Irish Sea from the war zones of Northern England.
ENGLAND 2024
"I told you, we're an anarcho-syndicalist commu—"
"Dan, now is not the time."
ENGLAND 2024
"Seems silly now, I s'pose. But it just sounded so nice, y'know? Havin' a blue passport 'n all. Anyways, I hear they still got some food in this next village."
Scots from Shetland to Stranraer tune in to watch the opening ceremonies of the 2024 Summer Games in Paris, anxious for their team to improve upon its disappointing premiere at Beijing's 2020 Winter Games.
ENGLAND 2024
From his stronghold on Anglesey, Chief Justiciar Rees Mogg plots. And dreams. He doesn't mind being in Lord Protector Boris's pale shadow. For now.
He is patient, is Rees Mogg, for he knows that he who controls the Emergency Jaffa Cake Reserves controls everything.
ENGLAND 2024
“Don’t you worry, Ma’am. We’ll make sure you get your toilet paper ration home safe and sound.”
ENGLAND 2024
Despite the Royalists' otherwise firm hold over the Midlands, an Anarchist insurrection has left the newly-declared "Free Borough of Northampton" under the control of the Guy Fawkes Collective and their mysterious leader, known only as "The Mandrill."
ENGLAND 2024
Though considered legally unfit to govern, images of King Charles III ("Barmy King Charlie") are occasionally circulated by Lord Protector Boris to keep up Royalist morale.
Here His Majesty poses at his Highgrove hermitage, surrounded by his closest advisors.
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