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What if United Kingdom had a golden age?

United Kingdom survived and ended with 0.3% of the world, up from 0.2%.

The year is 2026, and United Kingdom enters fifty years of plenty. Nobody touches anything after that: 300 years of history, left to play out.

Of 133 countries put through the same fate, United Kingdom did better than 84 of them.

Its share of the world

1. 2026: 0.2%
2. 2036: 0.2%
3. 2051: 0.2%
4. 2076: 0.3%
5. 2126: 0.3%
6. 2176: 0.3%
7. 2226: 0.3%
8. 2326: 0.3%

Year by year

• 2026: a golden age began.
• 2045: went to war with Ireland.
• 2063: made peace with Ireland.
• 2125: went to war with Ireland.
• 2137: went to war with Ireland.
• 2150: took Ireland.

What happened

• At its height, in 2060, it held 0.3% of the world.
• Its first war of its own came in 2045, against Ireland.
• Along the way it swallowed Ireland.
• 3 wars in 300 years.

The world in 2326

In 2326, Russia ruled 17.1% of the Earth, ahead of Canada and United States of America. 115 nations were left standing.

"Nobody saw that coming. I did, but I was not asked." Max, for the record

What players did

Players have run this 9 times. United Kingdom was still standing 100 years later in 100% of them, holding 0.7% of the world on average.

Run it yourself

Same seed, same history: it unfolds exactly like this, until you touch it. Then it is your world.

Other what-ifs for United Kingdom

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Is this what would really happen?

No one can know. This is one run of a game engine that simulates every country on the real map: wars by temperament, armies from land and people, civil wars, golden ages. Same seed, same result, every time.

Can I try it myself?

Yes. Press Play this world: the same seed opens in your browser, free, and unfolds the same way until you change something.

Every page is a real run of the Play God on Earth engine (deterministic: same seed, same result). Historical facts are not implied; this is a game.