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Here's a continuation of an old series of maps that I worked on in 2017.

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REPORT: SITREP OF CHANTICLEER-UK, NRTH-FR AND CYM.

AUTHOR: SUB-LIEUTENANT M. -REDACTED- SPENCER -REDACTED -REDACTED- VISCOUNT OF -REDACTED-

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The United Kingdom was certainly hit hard during the Exchange, losing almost all its major metropolitan regions and military bases. It was only because of sheer luck and a few malfunctioning Russian ICBMs that the major port cities of Plymouth, Portsmouth and Southampton escaped the nuclear fires that consumed everything else to the north of them. The survival of these three major port cities and the bulk of the RN Fleet that was in Plymouth have served as the lynchpin that has kept the Emergency Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland a surviving entity, while the French and other mainland European governments have since shattered into roving bands of bandits and rogue NATO elements.

The destruction of the Labour-supporting towns and cities on the southern coast and the Greater London Metropolitan Area have tipped the balance of the political makeup of the UK toward the Tories and the remnants of UKIP, which have since merged into the UK Conservatives. While the bulk of the UK government’s civilian sectors now operate out of Portsmouth, the rump Parliament and an equally neutered House of Lords still meet in the Central Government War Headquarters (CHANTICLEER), located in rural Wiltshire. Recently-elected Conservative Prime Minister, Jacob-Rees Mogg, has seen a recent upswing in support due to his expansionist policies into the remnants of the old West Country and northern Essex.

The counties (the administrative regions of the United Kingdom) have continued under the old pre-Exchange system, although they’ve since been redrawn to reflect the rise in the rural population and the refugees from cities such as London, Oxford and Luton. The northern half of the West Country remains under the control of old British Army units and smattering of Loyalist militias, after numerous coups and counter-coups against the local councils. These areas, either afflicted by banditry, the aforementioned civil unrest, or due to their precarious locations, will be bought back into the Union in due time, but for now, still act as de-facto independent military states.

The Grand Duchy of Cornwall is a strange case in post-Exchange politics. Formed by an odd coalition of Cornish Nationalists, Conservative MPs and Royal Navy personnel, the Grand Duchy is an independent vassal state of the United Kingdom, running off a combination of fishing, tin mining and the base for many smaller Royal Navy vessels that have managed to come back from their distant ports in the Mediterranean, Pacific and Caribbean. Prince William, Grand Duke of Cornwall, acts as the mediator between the British government in CHANTICLEER and the Stannary Parliament in Truro.

Other areas of the former United Kingdom, such as Wales and the English Midlands, remain the homes of roving bandits, rogue ‘Council Areas’ (i.e. rump county governments that have since resorted to pseudo-feudalism) and warlords made up of ex-NATO personnel. Two organised states of note are the so-called ‘Colchester Regime’ and the ‘Principality of Wales’, the former being an Anglo-American military-run dictatorship, and the other, a nativist Welsh state. Communications have only been established with the Welsh, despite this seemingly friendly state of affairs, the Welsh have come to hate the English and are more than willing to fund Cornish separatist groups to that end.

Northern France is the exception to the devastation that wrought the rest of the old Métropole, as a few nuclear missiles heading for portions of Normandy, Brittany and Pas-de-Calais overshot their targets and landed harmlessly in the Channel or the Celtic Sea. The French Republic of Normandy is arguably the most powerful out of these states, having annexed most of the old French department of the same name. Brittany, meanwhile, has turned into a cesspit of small fishing villages and warlord states. A renewed sense of nationalism has gripped these areas, as the French languages begins to slowly lose prominence in favour of local dialects and languages.

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Description

Here's a continuation of an old series of maps that I worked on in 2017.

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-- CLASSIFIED AT THE REQUEST OF THE ROYAL NAVY --

REPORT: SITREP OF CHANTICLEER-UK, NRTH-FR AND CYM.

AUTHOR: SUB-LIEUTENANT M. -REDACTED- SPENCER -REDACTED -REDACTED- VISCOUNT OF -REDACTED-

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The United Kingdom was certainly hit hard during the Exchange, losing almost all its major metropolitan regions and military bases. It was only because of sheer luck and a few malfunctioning Russian ICBMs that the major port cities of Plymouth, Portsmouth and Southampton escaped the nuclear fires that consumed everything else to the north of them. The survival of these three major port cities and the bulk of the RN Fleet that was in Plymouth have served as the lynchpin that has kept the Emergency Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland a surviving entity, while the French and other mainland European governments have since shattered into roving bands of bandits and rogue NATO elements.

The destruction of the Labour-supporting towns and cities on the southern coast and the Greater London Metropolitan Area have tipped the balance of the political makeup of the UK toward the Tories and the remnants of UKIP, which have since merged into the UK Conservatives. While the bulk of the UK government’s civilian sectors now operate out of Portsmouth, the rump Parliament and an equally neutered House of Lords still meet in the Central Government War Headquarters (CHANTICLEER), located in rural Wiltshire. Recently-elected Conservative Prime Minister, Jacob-Rees Mogg, has seen a recent upswing in support due to his expansionist policies into the remnants of the old West Country and northern Essex.

The counties (the administrative regions of the United Kingdom) have continued under the old pre-Exchange system, although they’ve since been redrawn to reflect the rise in the rural population and the refugees from cities such as London, Oxford and Luton. The northern half of the West Country remains under the control of old British Army units and smattering of Loyalist militias, after numerous coups and counter-coups against the local councils. These areas, either afflicted by banditry, the aforementioned civil unrest, or due to their precarious locations, will be bought back into the Union in due time, but for now, still act as de-facto independent military states.

The Grand Duchy of Cornwall is a strange case in post-Exchange politics. Formed by an odd coalition of Cornish Nationalists, Conservative MPs and Royal Navy personnel, the Grand Duchy is an independent vassal state of the United Kingdom, running off a combination of fishing, tin mining and the base for many smaller Royal Navy vessels that have managed to come back from their distant ports in the Mediterranean, Pacific and Caribbean. Prince William, Grand Duke of Cornwall, acts as the mediator between the British government in CHANTICLEER and the Stannary Parliament in Truro.

Other areas of the former United Kingdom, such as Wales and the English Midlands, remain the homes of roving bandits, rogue ‘Council Areas’ (i.e. rump county governments that have since resorted to pseudo-feudalism) and warlords made up of ex-NATO personnel. Two organised states of note are the so-called ‘Colchester Regime’ and the ‘Principality of Wales’, the former being an Anglo-American military-run dictatorship, and the other, a nativist Welsh state. Communications have only been established with the Welsh, despite this seemingly friendly state of affairs, the Welsh have come to hate the English and are more than willing to fund Cornish separatist groups to that end.

Northern France is the exception to the devastation that wrought the rest of the old Métropole, as a few nuclear missiles heading for portions of Normandy, Brittany and Pas-de-Calais overshot their targets and landed harmlessly in the Channel or the Celtic Sea. The French Republic of Normandy is arguably the most powerful out of these states, having annexed most of the old French department of the same name. Brittany, meanwhile, has turned into a cesspit of small fishing villages and warlord states. A renewed sense of nationalism has gripped these areas, as the French languages begins to slowly lose prominence in favour of local dialects and languages.

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