Talk:The Future: New Era (Map Game)/@comment-26031225-20160726170439

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland:
 * London Metro Bombings: In September 12, multiple terrorist attacks occured in the British capital, London. The most significative one was the attack on the London metro with bombs, leaving over 270 deads, shootings in multiple points of Greater London were also reported and at least 41 people were killed before the perpetrators were shot down by the police. The death toll was estimated to be around 320, and at least 500 people were injured. Nigel Farage declared the States of Emergency and encouraged british people to stand strong while the motives of the attacks were investigated. Although it was initially thought that ISIS was the responsible, this theory was debunked as the British authorities discovered that the participants of such massacre were part of an undeground group unknown by the public until now, this group mainly composed by pakistainis and indians was called "Nation of Islam" and its goal was to establish an Islamic State in the UK. The British goverment launched a crackdown against this group, and officially banned muslims and hindus from entering the country.Although this actions were seen as fascist and extreme, the terrorist attacks increased islamophobia and hatred among the population, increasing the support for these measures. 1 month after this, all muslims in the United Kingdom were forced to leave, in order to "prevent terrorism" according to Farage.
 * Death of Queen Elizabeth II: As if the September tragedy wasn't enough for the British, Queen Elizabeth II dies on November 20th at the age of 91, after having ruled the United Kingdom for 65 years. After her funeral, Prince Charles ascends to the British throne in a rather symbolic ceremony.
 * Goverment: As stated above, Nigel Farage's goverment decides to focus on restricting muslim rights gradually while using the London attacks as an excuse to call them terrorists, something that was criticized by the Opposition (a few conspirationists claim that the entire attack was made up so Farage could get ride of muslims and become more authoritarian). Eventually, muslims are forced to leave the United Kingdom as a preventive measure, although colonies and territories are exempt from this. Muslims are given the choice to move to the muslim-populated colonies of Qatar and the Maldives, but if they refused they were sent to the United States by request of president Gary Johnson. Around 50,000 muslims agreed on relocating to Qatar, while only 300 moved to the Maldives. The rest were sent to the United States, but as there are too many of them, the process is expected to take up a couple years before completion. Adittionally, nationalist propaganda is implemented by the UKIP, promoting extremie nationalism among the population in the mainland.
 * Military: The number of active troops rises up to 325,000, while reserves are reduced to just 75,000. More vessels and tanks are also produced, and military equipment from conquered nations like Hong Kong and Qatar is integrated into the British Armed Forces (detailed stuff next turn).
 * Wars & Conflicts:
 * Operation Ferdinand (January 1st-January 2nd): During 2017 New Year's Eve, 900 troops land in the Danish-owned Faroe Islands along with 10 tanks and seize control over the islands while Faroe's inhabitants are celebrating the New Year (and drunk). Because the British found practically no resistance, the Operation is declared over in the next day with no casualties and the Faroe are annexed into the Kingdom as part of Scotland. Besides of this move, the UK stays out of the so-called Operation Greenville.
 * Operation Greater Greater Tropico (January 20th-February 16th): The third phase of Operation Tropico begins, once again creatively named Greater Greater Tropico. The remaining islands of the lesser Antilles and Trinidad and Tobago are taken over by British troops stationed in Guyana and Anguilla, sucesfully taking all of the lesser Antilles for the UK. However, the operation does not end here, and the fourth and final phase begins in January 30th with the invasion of Suriname. 25,000 troops from Guyana and the mainland are used to invade Suriname along with a couple tanks and AFVs. Because Suriname has a weak military, the British quickly seize the capital and the country capitulates on February 16. Suriname is integrated into the British Territory of Tropico along with the remaining Antilles and Trinidad and Tobago. Suriname now regrets not joining Brazil when they had the chance.
 * Operation Ceylon (November 6th-present): In late 2017, Operation Ceylon is launched as the British Navy departs from BIOT to invade the Maldives. Due to Maldives having weak defence forces, only 2,000 soldiers are deployed to seize the capital. Malé surrenders to British Forces on Nocember 14th and the country capitulates, which results in Maldives becoming a British colony once again. However, the true objective of the Operation begins until November 15th, with the invasion of Sri Lanka. 50,000 troops land in different points of the island and head to the capital, but when British forces reach Colombo in mid December, fierce resistance from the Sri Lankans is found and the war continues until next year. By the end of the year, the UK held around 50% of Sri Lanka's territory.
 * Operation Red Lion (November 11th-present): Another war in Africa begins, as Equatorial Guinea and Gabon are invaded by 50,000 British troops. This operation is named Operation Red Lion for no particular reason (although unofficial sources claim that Farage named it like that because of a "dank meme"). After a few weeks of fighting, the small Equatorial Guinean coast is seized by the Royal Army along with the capital, Malabo (located in Bioko island), causing Equatorial Guinea to capitulate and surrender to the UK. Equatorial Guinea is annexed as a colony, just like The Gambia. The war continues with Gabon being invaded, since Gabon is also weak, three quarters of the country are occupied by British forces by the end of the year but it hasn't surrendered yet.
 * Operation Kiwi (January 3rd-present): Plans for making a coup against New Zealand and establish a pro-British goverment to basically turn NZ into a colony begin. However, in order to increase chances of succes, the UK will take multiple years to prepare the coup, and for now only early stages of the plan are done.
 * Economy: Sorta stable, rises with integration of Qatar and Hong Kong
 * Research & Technology: Currently developing mind control chip and some new tanks.
 * Colonies & Territories:
 * Tropico (Lesser Antilles): Although the territory of Tropico originally included Guyana, Suriname and all of the Lesser Antilles, the British authority decided to recreate the territory of Guyana, which now also included Suriname, reducing Tropico to just the Lesser Antilles. The UK invests in the tourism industry, as Tropico has the potential to become a popular tourist destination.
 * Guyana: Military bases and outposts are made, while the local goverment appointed by the British decides to focus on modernizing the country and increasing trade by exporting more products like bananas.
 * Qatar: The UK starts rebuilding what was destroyed during the colonial war (which isn't really too much since the priority was causing as less destruction as possible) and by the end of the year Qatar is nearly the same than before the war.
 * The Gambia: Military bases are built and the governor of the colony begins a program to provide education to all gambian children for the sake of teaching them English.
 * Maldives: Military bases are built, and scientists start discussing different ways of solving the sea level problem.
 * Demographics: More Whites and less foreigners because far right goverment and nationalism.
 * Diplomacy:
 * New Zealand: The UK guarantees their independence for no particular reason.
 * Japan & China: The UK supports the Japanese in the diplomatic conflict regarding a hacked satellite. When tensions begin to escalate, the UK creates an anti-PRC coalition to aid the Japanese in a hypothethical war. However, after the PRC agreed on ceding Hong Kong to the British, the UK withdrew from such coalition but will still aid Japan if war breaks out.
 * South Africa: Continues to collaborate on mind-control chip.