Neptune Resigning to Britannia the Empire of the Sea by William Dyce, 1847.
The British Empire has often been portrayed in fiction. Originally such works described the Empire because it was a contemporary part of life; nowadays fictional references are also frequently made in a steampunk context.
Zulu (1964) is set during the British defence of Rorke's Drift during the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879. Eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded in the action, the most ever awarded to a regiment in a single battle, thus ensuring its place in British military history.
Khartoum (1966) takes places during the Mahdist War and mainly focuses on the Siege of Khartoum, in which a small Anglo-Egyptian force stationed at Khartoum that was led by General Charles "Chinese" Gordon held out for over ten months against a numerically superior army of Sudanese Rebels before being completely annihilated.
East of Sudan (1964) is a highly fictionalized story set against the backdrop of the Mahdist War.
Zulu Dawn (1979) is a prequel to the film Zulu set during the Battle of Isandlwana in 1879 during the Anglo-Zulu War.
Gandhi (1982), about the life of Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the non-violent resistance movement against British colonial rule in India during the first half of the 20th century.
Sardar (1993) a biopic of Vallabhbhai Patel, a political and social leader of India who played a major role in the country's struggle for independence.
JJohn Adams (2008) TV drama series portraying the life of the future president; before, during and after the American Revolution.
Period fiction
This section deals with fictional characters set within the wider backdrop of the British Empire.
This is an incomplete list. Please add significant examples in order of date published
Prose
Set on an isolated island
Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe: Crusoe finds himself stranded on an isolated Island. From a few belongings he rebuilds English civilization and christens a tribesman. A drama fueled by capitalism, Christian faith and efforts to 'colonialize' and 'civilize' both the island and the tribesman.
King Solomon's Mines (1885) by Sir Henry Rider Haggard introduces Allan Quatermain – a British hunter and explorer, but who displays a remarkably modern attitude to de-colonialization, and shows a great respect for the African cultures. Nevertheless, he is a patriot. Quatermain appears in a total of eighteen stories by Haggard, fourteen of which are novel-length.
She (1887) by Sir Henry Rider Haggard is the first of four novels featuring Ayesha, also called She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, an immortal queen ruling the ruins of the lost African city of Kôr. It features three British adventurers who are captured by Ayesha's subjects. In one of these explorers she recognises the reincarnation of Kallikrates, an ancient Greco-Egyptian priest whom she loved.
Heart of Darkness (1899) a reflection on the savage Belgian empire compared to Britain's and the many kinds of evil perceived to be in Africa.
The Four Feathers (1902) by A.E.W. Mason tells the story of British officer Harry Faversham, who resigns his commission from his regiment just prior to the Battle of Omdurman, in the Sudan, in 1898. He questions his own true motives, and resolves to redeem himself in combat, travelling on his own to the Sudan.
Sanders of the River (1911) by Edgar Wallace, highly popular at the time, and its various sequels – The People of the River (1911), Bosambo of the River (1914), Bones of the River (1923), Sanders (1926), Again Sanders (1928) – focus on the adventures of a British governor in a fictional African colony loosely modeled on Nigeria, where British power in maintained by gunboats sailing up and down a major river. The protagonist is not gratuitously cruel, and by the standards of his time is open-minded towards the culture of the African tribes under his rule. Nevertheless, he (like the author and the general British public at the time) takes for granted the right of Britain to rule over the natives and the necessity of using brute force against any attempt at rebellion.
"The Sandokan novels" (1888 onwards) by Emilio Salgari portray the eponymous fictional pirate in his struggles against the British Empire.
Burmese Days (1934) by George Orwell is the somewhat autobiographical story of John Flory and a small, corrupt and bigoted group of British Imperialists living in Burma.
The Singapore Grip (1978) by J. G. Farrell is the final book in Farrell's empire trilogy. It is set in 1939 just before the Japanese invasion of Singapore and is a reflection on the final days of the Empire.
Noble House (1981) by James Clavell is an epic novel set in Hong Kong in 1963.
Set in India
Confessions of a Thug (1839), a novel about Thuggee cult member Ameer Ali, and his adventures and murders in British India.
The Man Who Would Be King (1888) by Rudyard Kipling, about two deserters from the British Army discover a hidden kingdom in the mountains and pretend to be gods to control (and rob) the natives.
Kim (1901) by Rudyard Kipling portrays an orphan of British descent becoming a spy for Britain. A commentary on how 'British' you can be when you are born overseas.
Nightrunners of Bengal (1951) by John Masters is set at the time of The Indian Rebellion of 1857. The central character, Captain Rodney Savage, is an officer in a Bengal Native Infantry regiment.
The Siege of Krishnapur (1973) by J. G. Farrell is a satirical novel set during the siege of an Indian town during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 from three perspectives: the British, the Indian sepoys and the Indian princes. Its point of view is very much of the early 1970s and, in its dealings with the Empire.
A Flight of Pigeons by Ruskin Bond (1975) set against the backdrop of the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny.
The Far Pavilions (1978) by M. M. Kaye is the story of an English officer during the Great Game. Based partly on biographical writings of the author's grandfather.
Cracking India (1991) by Bapsi Sidhwa details the Indian Independence movement through the eyes of young Lenny Sethna.
The Australians series (1979–1990) by British author Vivian Stuart (writing as William Stuart Long) are twelve novels set during Australia's colonial period from 1788 to 1901 about various characters attempting to establish their place within the British Empire, both at home and abroad.
Peter Simple (1834) by Frederick Marryat is about a young British midshipman during the Napoleonic wars. It was originally released in a serialized form in 1833.
The Hornblower Series (1937 onwards) by C. S. Forester chronicle the life of Horatio Hornblower, an officer in the Royal Navy, during the Napoleonic Wars.
Troubles (1970) by J. G. Farrell is the first novel in Farrell's Empire Trilogy and takes place in Ireland in 1919 around the Irish War of Independence. It involves an Englishman, Major Brendan Archer, who has a prolonged stay in a deteriorating hotel run by a Protestant Anglo-Irish family who stubbornly refuse to leave the country. Winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize
Arundel (1933) and its sequel Rabble in Arms (1945) by Kenneth Roberts take place during the campaign to capture Quebec early in the American Revolution.
Johnny Tremain (1943) Children's novel by Esther Forbes, retells in narrative form the final years in Boston, Massachusetts, prior to the outbreak of the American Revolution.
The Kent Family Chronicles (also known as The Bicentennial Series) (1974–1979) Are a series of eight novels by John Jakes written to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. The first two novels, The Bastard (1974) and The Rebels (1975) are set during the American Revolution.
Set in various locations
Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) is in many ways a travelogue of the British Empire as it was at the time of writing – as symbolised by the fact that the protagonists travel halfway around the world and still remain within British territory where British law runs, (and then they go to Japan which at the time of writing was under strong British influence, and from there to the United States, a country created by breakaway British colonists).
The Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian is a sequence of 20 nautical historical novels, and one unfinished, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centering on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, who is also a natural philosopher and secret agent. The first novel, Master and Commander, was published in 1969 and the last finished novel in 1999. The 21st novel of the series, left unfinished at O'Brian's death in 2000, appeared in print in late 2004.
The Flashman Series (1969 onwards) by George MacDonald Fraser shows the British Empire between 1839 and 1891 and from the eyes of the dastardly Flashman – the bully from Tom Brown's Schooldays. Many famous people from the time are mentioned usually in a bad light, or with flaws (e.g. Lord Cardigan, in Flashman and Flashman at the Charge)
Out of Africa (1985) set in Kenya and based loosely on the autobiographical book of the same name written by Isak Dinesen (the pseudonym of the author Karen Blixen), which was published in 1937.
Wah-Wah (2005) drama film, written and directed by British actor Richard E. Grant and loosely based on his childhood in Swaziland.
Gunga Din (1939) loosely based on the poem by Rudyard Kipling combined with elements of his novel Soldiers Three. The film is about three British sergeants and their native water bearer who fight the Thuggee, a religious cult of ritualistic stranglers in colonial India.
Kim (1950) An adaptation of the Kipling novel starring Errol Flynn.
King of the Khyber Rifles (1952) A half-caste British officer in 19th-century India battles the prejudices of both his Army colleagues and the local populace while trying to help put down a rebellion led by a greedy local ruler. Adapted from the Talbot Mundy novel.
Bhowani Junction (1956) is an adaptation of the novel set amidst the turbulence of the British withdrawal from India.
Shatranj Ke Khilari (1977) based on Munshi Premchand's short story of the same name, set in 1856 and shows the life and customs of 19th-century India on the eve of the Indian rebellion of 1857.
Junoon (1978) chronicles the period of 1857 to 1858 when the soldiers of the East India Company mutinied and many smaller kingdoms joined the soldiers in the hope of regaining their territories from the British.
Kranti (1981) A film taking place in 19th-century British India and is the story of the fight for independence from the British in the years spanning from 1825 to 1875. It tells the story of two men who led the war against British Rule, Sanga (Dilip Kumar) and Bharat (Manoj Kumar) both of whom call themselves Kranti.
Water (2005) a film set in 1938 India and a sequel to the 1998 film "Earth".
Gunga Din(1939) a film about three British sergeants and Gunga Din, their native bhisti (water bearer), who fight the Thuggee, a cult of murderous Indians in colonial British India.
The Patriot (2000) is a fictional film about a farmer who fights against the British during the American Revolution-based very loosely on Francis Marion.
Television
The Buccaneers (1956) A series about a reformed pirate in the early 18th century.
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (1957) one of several dramatizations loosely based on the Leatherstocking Tales series. Another well known adaptation is the 1971 BBC version.
The Recruiting Officer (1965 and 1973) Two adaptations of the play.
The Young Rebels (1970–1971) Television Series about a group of youthful guerrillas fighting on the Patriot side in the American Revolutionary War.
Sandokan (1976) is a loose adaptations of the novel series, with the hero a prince fighting for independence for his island from the British.
The Far Pavilions (1983) a three part television adaptation of the book.
The Jewel in the Crown (1984) is a reflection on Indian independence and the post imperial feelings in Britain when the series was produced. Based on the first book of The Raj Quartet.
Noble House (1988) is an adaptation of the novel set in the late 1980s.
Sharpe (1993 onwards) Adventure TV series starring the dashing Richard Sharpe, played by Sean Bean. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, the series regularly attracted high-profile guest stars.
The American Revolution (1994), TV miniseries starring Kelsey Grammer and Charles Durning; directed by Lisa Bourgoujian.
Hornblower (1998 onwards) is a series of loose adaptations of the novels.
Liberty's Kids (2002 onwards) A 40-part children's animated television series produced by DiC Entertainment set during the American Revolution.
Other fiction
This section also has works with fictional characters set in the Empire, but also include supernatural or fantastical elements.
This is an incomplete list. Please add significant examples in order of date published
Prose
The War of the Worlds (1898) by H. G. Wells is a classic novel in which Martian invaders land in the early years of the 20th century, occupy London and much of England for several months and use the inhabitants as food animals.
The Anubis Gates (1983) by Tim Powers shows the exploits of the empire in Egypt lead to a magical revenge plotted by Egyptian natives, but their failure to destroy the Empire leaves gates in time, which are exploited by businessmen in the twentieth century.
The Tales of Alvin Maker series (1987 onwards) takes place in an alternate history of the American frontier in the early 19th century, where the United States is much smaller and New England is still a colony of a republican England where the Restoration never occurred. Instead, the House of Stuart is exiled to the Americas, establishing the Crown Colonies in the Carolinas.
Great Work of Time (1991) by John Crowley, a secret society created by the will of Cecil Rhodes attains time travel, enabling it to prevent the two World Wars and preserve the British Empire until the end of the twentieth century – though creating difficult new problems.
Anno Dracula (1992) by Kim Newman takes place in a world where Count Dracula was not killed by van Helsing and has gone on to court and marry Queen Victoria, ushering in a new age of vampirism in the world.
Soldier of the Queen (1996) by Barbara Hambly is a spin-off from the Wells classic The War of the Worlds included in the War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches anthology. It depicts the Martian invasion of India and ends with Gandhi using the situation to gain Indian Independence nearly fifty years ahead of our timeline.
Dowager Empress of China (1996) by Walter Jon Williams Another story in the War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches collection. It ends with the Chinese using the same situation to successfully shake off British and other European colonial tutelage, and become a major world power already in the early 1900s.
In Darwinia (1998), by Robert Charles Wilson, Europe (including Britain) suddenly disappears in 1912 and is replaced by a strange land, of roughly the same shape but without humans and with very strange flora and fauna. In the resulting world, Lord Kitchener manages to hold together the British Empire despite the loss of its centre and despite revolts in Egypt and other colonies, and embarks on the re-colonization of Britain (the rebuilt London is mentioned as "a wild frontier town of several tens of thousands' population").
The Bartimaeus Trilogy (2003, 2004, and 2005) by Jonathan Stroud is set in an alternate present in which magicians are the ruling-class of Britain and its Empire. Open rebellion at home and in the American colonies takes place in Ptolemy's Gate, the third book of the trilogy.
Larklight (2006) by Philip Reeve is set in a Victorian era universe, where mankind has been exploring the solar system since the time of Isaac Newton.
The Temeraire series (2006 onwards) by Naomi Novik is set during an alternate history version of the Napoleonic Wars, in which dragons not only exist but are used as a staple of aerial warfare in Asia and Europe.
The 2000 AD comic series contains a character called Harry Kipling published from 2006 and set in an alternate steampunk version of the British Empire called Neo-Britannia.
Jubilee, a 2003 Doctor Who audio play, is set in an alternate world in which a new "English Empire" emerged after the Doctor defeated a Dalek invasion in 1903.
The Space 1889 audio dramas (2005 onwards) are based on the roleplaying game where Thomas Edison invented a means of traveling between planets and the major European powers have each established colonies in space.
Steamboy (2004) – An anime film which features the British government and Robert Stephenson developing Steampunk machinery to use against a large arm-dealing empire in the heart of London.
Television
The Time Tunnel episodes The Last Patrol (1966), The Night of the Long Knives (1966) and Raiders From Outer Space (1967) all feature the protagonists travelling to periods involving the Empire.
Sandokan (1992 and 1998) are two children's animated versions of the novel series, with the hero a prince fighting for independence for his island from the British.
The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (2000) a science fiction television series depicting the revelation that Jules Verne did not merely write the stories behind his famous science fiction classic books, but actually experienced these adventures personally.
Doctor Who story Empress of Mars (2017) sees British soldiers occupying Mars in 1881, assisted by an Ice Warrior.
Computer games
Age of Empires III (2005) and its expansions feature campaigns set at various stages of British history including the Seven Years' War, American Revolution and Indian Mutiny.
The alternate history section details books that examine what would have happened if history had unfolded differently. A common feature of stories written by American authors is a British victory in the revolutionary war. For novels in which Britain is defeated by Nazi Germany in 1940, see Axis victory in World War II and Category:Alternate Nazi Germany novels.
This is an incomplete list. Please add significant examples in order of date published
Anno Domini 2000, or, Woman's Destiny (1889) by former Prime Minister of New ZealandSir Julius Vogel is set in a speculative future. In the 2000 depicted by Vogel, women have gained full suffrage and hold many positions of high authority, the main protagonist Hilda Fitzherbert becoming Undersecretary for Home Affairs, Imperial Prime Minister and Empress Consort during the course of the novel. Also, the British Empire federated, gained territories in the form of northern France, Belgium and the United States (but lost Ireland) and has a migratory unicameral Imperial Legislature.
Bring the Jubilee (1953) by Ward Moore is set in an alternate reality where the Confederacy became independent in 1864, conquering all of Latin America and becoming a world power by the twentieth century whilst the United States became a backward, impoverished rump state. The British Empire is mentioned in passing several times, being ruled by William V during the early twentieth century and allied to the Confederacy, with British North America never becoming Canada, India being granted self-government in the Nineteen Thirties by a Labour government and a Zionist state being established in Uganda.
The Warlord of the Air (1971) by Michael Moorcock concerns the adventures of Oswald Bastable, an Edwardian-era soldier stationed in India, and his adventures in an alternate universe wherein World War I never happened and the British Empire, knit together by airships, still dominates the world and acquires new territory. (Ecuador is mentioned as a British colony.)
In the timeline of Richard C. Meredith's At the Narrow Passage (1973), first volume of his Timeliner Trilogy (1973–1978), the British had suppressed both the American Revolution and the French Revolution, the second leading to their annexation of France. In the 20th century, American colonial troops serve Britain loyally in a decades-long trench warfare waged on French soil against the armies of the centralized Holy Roman Empire. Other Americans support the underground ARA (American Revolutionary Army) and plot rebellion.
In The Alteration (1976) by Kingsley Amis the Reformation did not happen, with the Catholic Church becoming an international secular power and 'Schismatic' religion being practiced only in the Republic of New England in North America. The English Empire is mentioned to include West England (Ireland), North England (probably Scotland), India and Indochina (which it won from the French in 1815).
The Two Georges (1995) by Harry Turtledove & Richard Dreyfuss depicts an alternate history world in which the American War of Independence did not take place thanks to a constitutional settlement worked out in the early 1770s. By 1995, the North American Union is a self-governing dominion within the British Empire subject to terrorist acts by the nativist and separatist Sons of Liberty. The British Empire also includes Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, large sections of West Africa and protectorates over Hawaii, the Ottoman Empire and China.
The Southern Victory Series (1997–2007) by Harry Turtledove is set in a universe where the Confederate States successfully broke away from the United States in 1862 with the two nations becoming sworn enemies. Throughout the series, the British Empire is allied with the Confederacy.
In How Few Remain, Great Britain pressured the United States into recognising Confederate independence in 1862. Later, the British Empire, alongside France, aids the Confederacy in fighting to U.S. by launching naval bombardments against Great Lakes towns and San Francisco and a cavalry attack from Saskatchewan during the Second Mexican War (1881–1882) (albeit on the condition that the Confederacy abolish slavery).
In the Great War trilogy, the British Empire and the Confederacy are Entente Powers fighting the Central Powers (including the United States) during the First Great War (1914–1917). Due to a Central Powers victory, the U.S. annexes most of Canada (with George Armstrong Custer as governor-general), Newfoundland, the Bahamas, Bermuda and the Sandwich Islands and forces Britain to recognise the Republic of Quebec and a unified Republic of Ireland.
In the Settling Accounts tetralogy, the British Empire, the Confederacy and the other Entente Powers (mostly headed by authoritarian, nationalist governments) fight the Central Powers in the Second Great War (1941–1944). Britain fights the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires on the European continent and attempts to re-annexe Ireland, whilst Canadians fight a guerrilla war against the U.S., employing the use of technicals and people bombs. After Japan failed to capture the Sandwich Islands and Midway from the U.S., it abandoned the Allied war effort and annexed several European colonies in Asia (including British Malaya). The British Empire is ultimately forced to surrender after Germany drops superbombs on London, Norwich and Brighton.
The Peshawar Lancers (2002) by S. M. Stirling, has a timeline where a heavy meteor falls in 1878 devastating the northern hemisphere, with survivors degenerating into savagery and cannibalism, but the British Empire succeeded in moving its centre to India. With its capital in Delhi, what is now known as The Angrezi Raj is still the dominant world power in the 21st century, controlling India, Australia, New Zealand, Southern Africa, Madagascar, the Batavian Republic and colonial outposts in Britain, Ireland, Northern Europe and North America. In the Viceroyalty of India, the ruling classes increasingly tending to adopt Indian cultural traits such as the taboo on eating beef.
The Year of the Hangman (2002) by Gary Blackwood, an alternative history in which Washington was killed and the rebels lost the War of Independence.
2012: The War for Souls (2007) by Whitley Stieber: The British Empire is one of four empires in an alternate universe, which also includes the French Empire, the Russian Empire, and a small American Empire.
Pax Britannia (2007 onwards) by Jonathan Green and Al Ewing is a novel series published by Abaddon Books set in a modern steampunk world where the British Empire, and Queen Victoria, still rule the world.
TimeRiders: The Eternal War (2011) by Alex Scarrow, in which Britain entered the American Civil War on the side of the Confederacy, turning the war into an unending stalemate. Without the United States to challenge its dominance, the British Empire continued to expand, and by 2001 it controls half the world.
In the post-apocalypticalternate historyEmberverse novels (2004–2018) by S. M. Stirling, where suddenly the laws of nature changed and modern technology stopped functioning, there is a new British Empire consisting of Britain, part of Ireland and Prince Edward Island in Canada, as well as France and Spain (which were less able to adjust to the great change). With modern technologies gone, this Britain reverted in many ways to earlier times, with the Monarch once again wielding real power and knights wearing armor and fighting on horseback.
The New England series (2018 onwards)[note 1] by James Philip is set in North America in 1976 – two-hundred years after the American Revolution was crushed at the Battle of Long Island. The British Empire still rules the waves and North America is a patchwork of twenty-nine squabbling decentralized colonies. Canada, Australia and New Zealand are members of Britain's recently created Commonwealth, while India and its vast holdings in Africa are still treated as colonies. The Pax Britannia that has been in place since the 1860s is beginning to fail and the empires of Spain, France, Germany, Turkey, Russia, and Japan are jostling for position.
Comics
Ministry of Space (2001) depicts a world where the British benefited from Nazi technological research instead of the US and Russia, seeing them win the space race and preserving the Empire.
The Code Geass anime series (see below) contain the manga books Lelouch of the Rebellion, Suzaku of the Counterattack and Nightmare of Nunnally all published in 2006.
Audio
The Code Geass anime series (see below) contain the radio series' The Rebellion Diary and Lots about the Rebellion broadcast in 2006.
Television
The Sliders episode The Prince of Wails (1995) takes place in an alternate reality in which the American Revolution was won by the British. The British States of America (which includes California) is a heavily taxed, dictatorially-governed colony.
The Futurama episode All the Presidents' Heads (2011) partly takes place in an alternate reality where the American Revolutionary War was won by Great Britain, resulting in the unification of all of North America into West Britannia by 3011.
Speculative futures
There are many examples of speculative fiction were a British empire different from the historical empire is featured, but these cannot be called alternative realities, as they are not written from the point of view of a change in the past but as speculations about the future.
This is an incomplete list. Please add significant examples in order of date published
Prose
The Battle of Dorking (1871) by George Tomkyns Chesney established a new genre of fiction relating to the Empire – invasion literature, in which various powers attempt (or succeed) to invade Britain or the Empire. In The Battle of Dorking this is an unnamed power that happens to speak German, catches Britain off guard and leaves Dorking devastated for fifty years.
The Great War in England in 1897 (1894) by William Le Queux is another invasion literature novel depicting the invasion of Britain by the French with their Cossack allies, with the invading forces penetrating into London – but the British saved in the nick of time by the intervention of their staunch German allies led by the Kaiser...
Last and First Men (1930) by Olaf Stapledon, a vast vision of humanity's future, mentions the British Empire surviving well into the twenty-first century but becoming increasingly loose, until a cataclysmic war with the United States in which Britain (and the whole of Europe) are destroyed by poison gas. In this war Canada sides with the US; South Africa, India and Australia declare neutrality; while New Zealand remains loyal to Britain and wages a year-long hopeless resistance.
The Shape of Things to Come (1934) by H. G. Wells, is a future history at the time, The Second World War ends in 1950 with a stalemate and a general collapse of all warring sides. The British Empire retains a shadowy existence (an explicit comparison is made to the last years of the Roman Empire), and until the end of the 1970s sends occasional "Imperial Envoys" to what it still claims as its colonies and protectorates – but exercises little actual power, and is eventually swept away by an emerging world state.
The Death Guard (1939) by Philip George Chadwick, is a future war story in which a near-invincible army of artificially created soldiers – the flesh guard – falls into the hands of an untrustworthy power, continental Europe forms an alliance and invades Britain. The resulting carnage reduces whole cities and towns in Britain to smoking rubble. The story also features atomic war.
Warday (1984) by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka features the United States and Soviet Union devastating each other in a nuclear war in October 1988 as a part of the novel's fictional (then-future) history. Western Europe remains untouched by the war, allowing Britain to step into the vacuum and once again establish itself as the dominant world power (alongside Japan), with the Royal Navy ruling the world's oceans and Britain maintaining an effective tutelage (though no formal rule) over the broken remnants of the US, as well as in other parts of the world (for example Argentina). This is widely regarded as a revival of the British Empire, though the British refrain from using the term.
Films
Mutant Chronicles (2008) is a film based on the Mutant Chronicles role-playing game. Set in a distant future, where traditional nation-states of the world have merged into huge corporations. The British faction is called Imperial, and is nominally led by Her Serenity the Queen.
Notes
↑ The New England series by James Philip consists of Empire Day (2018), Two Hundred Lost Years (2018), Travels Through The Wind (2019), Remember Lost Achilles (2019), George Washington's Ghost (2020), and Imperial Crisis (2020)
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