The United Kingdom of Union of British and Irish Republics is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Sylvia Winstanley MP with an even hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, smutty television, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.964 billion British are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of London. The average income tax rate is 95.8%.

The frighteningly efficient British economy, worth 337 trillion euro-pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 113,839 euro-pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Inter-species marriages are ignored by the government, the nation's industries are scrambling to switch to biodegradable plastics, there's no such thing as a safe bet, and organ donation rates have hit a new low. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Union of British and Irish Republics's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Union of British and Irish Republics is ranked 281,499^th in the world and 6,164^th in The North Pacific for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -11.03 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.