Following its crushing defeat during the
Great War, the United Kingdom split apart. When the royal family fled the increasingly unstable country to Sydney in 1959, a hole was made, that was filled with an eccentric and strange political organization. The
Anglo-Saxon Workers Party of Britain was founded in the 1940s as a 'national socialist' party, influenced by the 'agrarian idyll' and 'Anglo-Saxon purity' as espoused by
John Tolkien and
E.A. Freeman. Upon taking control of the country, the ASWP attempted to reorganize it in an
Ultranostalgic manner, going as far as to attempt to create a 'pure' form of English without foreign language influence, called
Anglisc (despite decades of trying, this has not caught on). While throughout the 80s to 2010s Britain moved forward with mostly pragmatic socialist policies (if isolationist and genocidal), the ascension of Edward (born Paul) Kingsnorth and his radical faction upended English politics. Kingsnorth presided over several disastrous reforms to the British agriculture and industrial system, resulting in a famine and political crisis. While Kingsnorth was overthrown in 2022, Great Britain is still struggling to recover from his policies.