Recently added and updated articles — the nations, polities, people, and institutions of the United Kingdom of America.https://universal-register.org/en-ushttps://universal-register.org/foreign-nations/duchy-of-anhalt/https://universal-register.org/foreign-nations/duchy-of-anhalt/A small, scattered duchy of 350,000 people on the middle Elbe, inside Prussian Saxony, where the metal aeroplane began: the Junkers works at Dessau, the arsenal of the German air force, blown up by the French in December 1941 and rebuilt in a year; the Bauhaus, which came in 1925 and never left; and a Duke who was a Junkers test pilot.Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/institutions/abc-the-convention-bill/https://universal-register.org/institutions/abc-the-convention-bill/Transcripts from the American Broadcasting Corporation's national service on Thursday 9 November 2028, the day after the Dakotas voted for a new constitution, when Joseph Many Horses asked leave under the ten-minute rule to bring in a bill for a convention to replace the Charter of Union while keeping the Crown, Dale Ambrister opposed it and his own deputy voted against him, the House gave leave by 214 votes to 71, and a petition launched that evening in a church hall passed two hundred thousand signatures in three hours.Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/institutions/firearms-act-2028/https://universal-register.org/institutions/firearms-act-2028/The first federal firearms statute in the Realm's history, passed four and a half months after twenty-six people were killed at the Saint Patrick's parade in Chicago: an annual licence to own with a storage inspection, administered by the polities, records of every sale, and a federal index of adjudications, in force since 1 November 2028.Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/foreign-nations/duchy-of-saxe-coburg-and-gotha/https://universal-register.org/foreign-nations/duchy-of-saxe-coburg-and-gotha/A small German duchy of two capitals a hundred kilometres apart, Franconian Coburg and Thuringian Gotha, joined by inheritance in 1826 and never merged; the home of Prince Albert after 1840, of the Almanach de Gotha and of Germany's first mutual insurer, and the state whose Duke was shot on Gotha's platform on 28 June 1914.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/foreign-nations/grand-duchy-of-alsace-lorraine/https://universal-register.org/foreign-nations/grand-duchy-of-alsace-lorraine/The German Empire's western grand duchy, Elsaß-Lothringen, taken from France in 1871 and ruled since 1890 by the descendants of Otto von Bismarck; annexed by fascist France from 1939 to 1945, when 130,000 of its men were conscripted to fight Germany; bilingual since 1946, French co-official since France renounced its claim in 2027, and the seat of the European Concert's Parliament at Straßburg.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/foreign-nations/grand-duchy-of-saxe-weimar-eisenach/https://universal-register.org/foreign-nations/grand-duchy-of-saxe-weimar-eisenach/A small Thuringian grand duchy of 650,000 people that keeps Germany's cultural capital: Goethe's and Schiller's Weimar, the university and the lens works of Jena, and Luther's Wartburg above Eisenach; ruled by the Ernestine house that brought Goethe to Weimar in 1775, and since 2004 by a Grand Duke who was a librarian.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/institutions/constitution-of-the-northern-march/https://universal-register.org/institutions/constitution-of-the-northern-march/The Constitution of the Northern March, ratified on 8 November 2028 by 53.1 per cent to 46.9, which replaces the Admission Constitution of 1889 and makes the State of the Dakotas the Northern March again, under its name of 1861: set out in full, with its bill of rights, the Mni Sose Trust held by the Governor, a joint authority over the stewardship of Custer State Park with four Lakota nations, single-member districts, the vote at sixteen, and a referendum for whatever the Senate of Counties refuses twice.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/institutions/ford-motor-company/https://universal-register.org/institutions/ford-motor-company/Ford Motor Company, the Michigan carmaker founded in 1903 whose moving assembly line of 1913 and pound-a-day wage of 1914 made the Realm a country of drivers; still controlled by Henry Ford's family and part-owned by the Grand Duchy of Michigan, maker of the Realm's state cars, third in its market, and the one Detroit maker that refused the rescue of 2009.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/people/empress-caroline/https://universal-register.org/people/empress-caroline/Empress Caroline, born Princess Caroline of Hanover in London in 1966, the only sibling of Ernest V, German Empress and Queen of Prussia from 2005 until the death of Heinrich I in February 2028, mother of Alexander I and Princess Charlotte, a member of the Regency Council that dismissed Johanna Falk over her vote, and since 31 October 2028 heir presumptive to her nephew George V in fourteen Crown capacities.Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/people/konrad-asmussen/https://universal-register.org/people/konrad-asmussen/Konrad Asmussen, born in Hanover in 1975, a schoolteacher from a List bakery family and leader of the Deutsch-Hannoversche Partei, Minister of Education for ten years and Minister-President of Hanover since 2023, who advised Ernest V and now advises the Regent, carried Hanover through the regency and the abdication of October 2028, and has asked Berlin what would follow if the Hanoverian line reached the German Emperor.Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/foreign-nations/kingdom-of-serbia-and-montenegro/https://universal-register.org/foreign-nations/kingdom-of-serbia-and-montenegro/The federal kingdom of Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo under the House of Obrenović: a principality made by two risings against the Ottomans, kept on its throne by a coup that failed in 1903, neutral in the first great war and late into the second, which gave up Macedonia for German loans in 1919, joined its crown to Montenegro's by statute in 1968, fought the Kosovo War against its own south from 1992 to 1995, and holds a referendum in Kosovo in April 2029.Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/polities/american-virgin-islands/https://universal-register.org/polities/american-virgin-islands/The American Virgin Islands, a Crown territory of the United Kingdom of America outside the polities: St Thomas, St John and St Croix, bought from Denmark in 1917 without the islanders being asked, governed by the Navy until 1931, made citizens by an Act of 1927, self-governing under a Premier since 1970, and represented in Parliament by one Member of the Commons who may speak and may not vote.Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/institutions/abc-the-accession/https://universal-register.org/institutions/abc-the-accession/Transcripts from the American Broadcasting Corporation's national service on Tuesday 31 October 2028, when the Realm, last of the realms, gave effect to the abdication of Ernest V before midday, and at two in the afternoon in New Westminster, six in the evening in London, his son became King George V at fifteen, at school; with the Commons and the Lords, the Regent's assent, the moment of the demise, the proclamation from the steps of Columbia Palace, and the two statements that followed.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/institutions/abc-the-kings-question/https://universal-register.org/institutions/abc-the-kings-question/Transcripts from the American Broadcasting Corporation's national service on Wednesday 25 October 2028, when the Royal American Supreme Court unanimously upheld the five seats of the Territory of Loreto in the morning, and in the afternoon Prince Frederick told the Realm from Columbia Palace that King Ernest V had asked what an abdication would require in each of his fourteen realms; with the judgment's summary, the physicians' note, the Prince's statement, the Prime Minister in the Lords, the British Prime Minister in Downing Street and the evening's account of what nobody yet knew.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/institutions/interstate-highways-act-1956/https://universal-register.org/institutions/interstate-highways-act-1956/The Act of Parliament that created the National System of Interstate and Defence Highways, the Ministry of Transportation and the Highways Fund, under which the polities built the Realm's motorways with federal money and cut through the centres of its cities; with the full text of the Act and a list of the routes of the System.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/institutions/march/https://universal-register.org/institutions/march/The March, the Realm's designation for a frontier polity under a Crown-appointed head with emergency powers and treaty nations' land inside it: the Northern March, made in 1861, converted to the State of the Dakotas in 1889 and resumed by its own people's vote of 8 November 2028; and the March of Arizona since 1884.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/land/oklahoma-city/https://universal-register.org/land/oklahoma-city/The largest city of the State of Oklahoma-Sequoyah, founded in a single afternoon in the land run of 1889, the federal city of the plains, and the place where a lorry bomb killed 168 people on 19 April 1995 and the law was deliberately left as it was.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/foreign-nations/french-third-republic/https://universal-register.org/foreign-nations/french-third-republic/The French Third Republic (1870 to 1934): the parliamentary republic proclaimed after Sedan, made by one vote in 1875, armed in 1889 with an emergency article written against Boulanger, defeated in the First Great War, and handed to Henri Delacroix under that article in February 1934; whether it ended then or in 1945 is still argued.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/history/the-indochina-war/https://universal-register.org/history/the-indochina-war/The Indochina War (1961 to 1975): the United Kingdom of America's war in support of the State of Vietnam against the communist north and the National Liberation Front, begun with Kennedy's advisers, turned into a large air and ground war by Johnson, wound down by Nixon to a ceasefire in 1973, and ended when the Commons refused supply in March 1975 and Saigon fell on 30 April.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/people/paul-ii/https://universal-register.org/people/paul-ii/Paul II, Emperor of All Russia since 25 October 2028: born at Richmond in 1986, head of the exiled House of Romanov from 2019, a former captain of the Coldstream Guards and a director of a City merchant bank, proclaimed at the Tauride Palace in St Petersburg on the night Russia voted by more than three in four to restore a constitutional monarchy under his house.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/world-institutions/world-economy/https://universal-register.org/world-institutions/world-economy/The economies of the world's states measured in the American pound: the two league tables, by nominal value and by total output, and why they disagree; the pound as the world's reserve currency; the blocs, the pegs and the funds; and how the order came to be.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/institutions/abc-russias-two-days/https://universal-register.org/institutions/abc-russias-two-days/Transcripts from the American Broadcasting Corporation's national service between the evening of Monday 23 October and the evening of Wednesday 25 October 2028, when President Yermolov confined Russia's army to its barracks and decreed a free election, Russia elected Dmitri Gromov, voted the same day to restore the Romanovs, and saw Paul II proclaimed Emperor before midnight; with the corporation's written report, and the night on which the Moscow bureau stopped telling its audience that its reports had been read by the Russian security service before they were broadcast.Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/people/house-of-romanov/https://universal-register.org/people/house-of-romanov/The House of Romanov, the imperial house of Russia from 1613 to 1917 and again since 25 October 2028, and in British exile between: the dynasty that fell without being massacred, the heads who lived at Richmond for a hundred and ten years, and the referendum that gave the crown back to Paul II.Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/people/zohran-mamdani/https://universal-register.org/people/zohran-mamdani/Zohran Mamdani, Mayor of New York since January 2028: a Labour member of the Assembly of New York for Astoria who won the City's open primary from one per cent in the polls, was elected over the former Premier Andrew Cuomo, and has made the buses and the nurseries free and frozen regulated rents through the City's own powers.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/land/columbia-cathedral/https://universal-register.org/land/columbia-cathedral/The Cathedral Church of St. Michael and All Angels, New Westminster: the national seat of the Church of America and the cathedral of the Diocese of New Westminster, built on the northern ridge of the capital in phases from 1856 to 1924 to the design of George Gilbert Scott, successor to a brick cathedral of 1806 that burned in 1854, and the setting of the Realm's accession services, its state funerals and the May Day Memorial Evensong.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/land/tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier/https://universal-register.org/land/tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier/The Realm's tomb of an unidentified soldier of the First Great War, on the crest of the Robert E. Lee National Cemetery at Arlington: dedicated on 11 November 1921, joined by an unknown of the second war in 1958, held as Crown ground under an Order in Council of 1921, and guarded day and night since 1937 by the Tomb Company of the Regiment of Virginia.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/people/stephen-alcott/https://universal-register.org/people/stephen-alcott/Stephen James Alcott, an American journalist and ABC national television presenter, whose career began in neighbourhood newspaper reporting in Los Angeles.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/foreign-nations/ethiopia/https://universal-register.org/foreign-nations/ethiopia/The empire of the Ethiopian highlands and the Horn of Africa, never conquered by a colonial power, a parliamentary monarchy under the Solomonic house since the constitution of 1974, with Eritrea as a federated state and Djibouti as an autonomous region. It is the fourth most populous state in Africa, and the dam it built on the Blue Nile lies at the centre of the Nile crisis.Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/foreign-nations/isle-of-man/https://universal-register.org/foreign-nations/isle-of-man/A self-governing dependency of the British Crown in the Irish Sea, held by the King as Lord of Mann, a lordship and not a Crown, with the oldest continuous parliament in the world, Tynwald, which proclaims its laws on a hill each July; its capital is Castletown and its government sits at Douglas.Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://universal-register.org/foreign-nations/kamerun/https://universal-register.org/foreign-nations/kamerun/A German associated state on the Gulf of Guinea, the first of the former protectorates to be converted, in 1955, and the only one whose head of state is the German Emperor, reigning as Kaiser von Kamerun through a governor-general appointed on the advice of Kamerun's own Prime Minister. Its citizens are German nationals by treaty, its mark is pegged to the German mark, and the cost of the association is the main subject of its politics.Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT