Set it in North Korea.
North Korea is probably gonna go by way of World War Z.
I wonder now in 2018, if the British government has returned to London...
It would not be Republican- plenty of surviving Royals, and the Brits would go for continuity of traditions.
I guess the post might have been from a timeline snippet then rather than the movies.
Some what ironically was the state of the former United Kingdom, which was actually improving, the resettlement areas set up American led NATO forces before the Europe outbreak had manage to establish contact with eachother and form a loose federation of communities that swere dotted around England, Scotland and Wales. My early 2006, the Federation of Great Britain was proclaimed in St Andrews, Scotland, which included St Andews, the most affluent of the resettled areas, as well as the Isle of Wight, Dover, Folkstone, Portsmouth, Fort William and Angelsey. Smaller villages near these towns were later cleared of bodies and wreckage and also resettled, and rudimentary phone lines and power lines were set up or reconnected, allowing communication between the citizens of the British Federation of some 30,000 estimated people. The Federation was run by a joint civilian and military council upon its proclamation, with plans for elections in 2008.
It would not be Republican- plenty of surviving Royals, and the Brits would go for continuity of traditions.
Perhaps the Republican British government established in southern England is a "temporary" or "provisional" country, to give some form of autonomy whilst the Brown administration settles up things first in Northern Ireland then in Scotland. It was mentioned that the recognized British government slowly returned to the mainland, first getting into contact with Acting Prime Minister, then later First Minister of Scotland, MP Galloway, before going south and establishing the capital in Richmond.I believe by the time of the second outbreak a new republican British Government had been established in the former UK.
Outside of the entertainment industry however I was also thinking about the Middle East.
It definitely got me thinking about what the effects of this widespread decimation would be on numerous things in our world, and recently it got me thinking about the entertainment industry of all things as I was just playing the Anniversary edition of Halo 2, I wondered if the Flood would have been taken out of the game entirely by Bungie due to it being a controversial subject. (Halo 2 being released in late 2004)
I am much more of the opinion that the Outbreak was contained to Britain, as the setup and ending of 28 Weeks was very stupid imho, however even given a UK only 2002 Outbreak, the panic and market reaction would crash the world economy for some years, and I doubt any big blockbusters are being made for a long time.
The effect on popular music is likely to be a revival of quite apocalyptic lyrics vs very optimistic happy 'poppy' stuff.