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== UK ==
The United Kingdom is less affluent than in previous generations, but still maintains a high standard of living and maintains a heavy trade powerbase. In all the world, it boasts the lowest crime rates, in no small part due to a zero tolerance policy; cybercrime being a major exception, where the UK fares surprisingly badly-- in part due to the government's tacit approval in off-shore cybercrimes. It is a point contention between the United Kingdom and some trade relations that, while the United Kingdom seems immune to intra-national cybercrime, the amount of data theft from other countries is excessive.

The United Kingdom also expresses some of the laxest censorship laws in the world, and maintains vast fractal-storage information vaults.

Scotland ceded from the united kingdom briefly in 2105, and rejoined in 2117 after failure as a stand-alone economy. It has recently been gearing up for a second attempted secession.

The United Kingdom officially has British English as the national language, though a large majority of the population also speak European English.