Editing KnownSpace (section)

= Earth =
In 2312AD Earth is still the centre of the human universe, and I have no better idea than the next man as to what is likely to have happened to it in the next couple of hundred years. Players and GMs will be free to make up whatever stuff they like about the history of their own nation or district, and how this affects Known Space at large.

== United Kingdom ==

''(UK readers feel free to argue the toss over this version of our future history, nothing is set in stone)''

The UK is no more. Scotland, Wales and Ulster all went their separate ways over the course of the 21st century, and although initially still 'united' under the Crown, Scotland and Wales became Republics, and Ulster joined the Republic of Ireland. Even within England there is devolution with regional parliaments (the legacy of the last Labour government ever back in the 22nd century) in the north west, northeast, Yorkshire and the north midlands, the Midlands and the southwest. England left the EU while the other parts of the British Isles stayed in, and there is agitation amongst the outlying regions to ditch the rump English parliament and become independent EU states.

Interstellar colonisation has added half a dozen new regions to England, one of which has successfully rebelled and become an independent state in its own right and a couple of others are on the way. The regional governments have even set up colonies of their own independent of the main English effort - visitors to the joint Geordie/Scouse/Tyke outpost on New Elmet are so baffled by the local argot that they refuse to believe they are in an 'English' colony at all.

The Royals are still going, but there is agitation even in the conservative south for a Republic, possibly because Prince George, the heir, has married a Jamaican and spends most of his time in Tibet hanging out with the Panchen Lama, and resigned rather than go and do his duty as a Royal Star Navy officer putting down the New Berkshire rebellion on the planet Orion.