-- Quote said by the British Prime Minister Lady Charlotte Cornwallis upon being questioned by a journalist of the alleged human experimentations being conducted by a cabal of scientists with government supervision. The reporter in question, William 'Jolly' Joyce, is recorded to have asked her as to why she has allowed such transgressions towards human rights to occur under her nose (or with her tacit approval, as some international viewers claim. It must be noted that the suspected head scientist of the supposed human experimentation program was a close colleague of the Prime Minister and was rumored to be her protege). Prime Minister Cornwallis subsequently answered with the quote above which left everybody in the interview puzzled and bewildered as to the cryptic nature of her answer. Days after the interview, however, it was revealed that not only were the alleged human experimentations taking place with government approval true, the Prime Minister herself was the leading scientist of the project and the previously suspected head was a mere smokescreen to cover up her personal involvement. The revelations were condemned internationally, with nations such as the USA, Russia, China, and much of the European Union urging her to step down from her post. Amazingly (or, to the international community, with horror) the Prime Minister did not step down from her post. Having achieved total supremacy in the commons and supported by her loyalist in the Lords, she was able to weather the scandal through and even managed to rid herself of the remaining opposition parties left in the United Kingdom (as most of their numbers had either been purged (through the elaborate use of scandals, revelations of corruption, and accusation of heinous crimes such as pedophilia and/or sexual harassment) and the ones that remain were mere shells of their previous selves; bereft of any power and shamed althroughout the nation for their membership in what many citizens deem 'tainted' parties). Though her staying in power left the United Kingdom internationally isolated and without friends (the Dominions having severed their ties to the British crown after the revelation that she was there to stay), Prime Minister Cornwallis nonetheless successfully transitioned the UK into a prosperous, green state. Having used her extensive connections to the world elite, she was able to put to use her family background (her father is currently one of the worlds wealthiest entrepreneurs and her mother is a key power broker in the State of Japan, not to mention her younger brother who is currently a world-renowned author and (through nepotism) an admiral in the Royal Navy) to ensure that money still continued to flow into the UK, however little it may be. Enacting a great many reforms under her 20-year tenure, she was able to turn the UK from the most hated nation in the (western) world to one of its most prosperous, with the Kingdom being one of the first truly green nations in the world through her liberal use of nuclear power, which led to the UK to become one of the most nuclear reliant states in the world. The Prime Minister achieved this by her soft endorsements of the more unethical nature of science as well as her quiet sponsoring of the world's top intellectuals, offering them a place in Britain if they ever so desire to conduct experiments that is more often than not frowned upon by the international community. With this, she was able to turn the UK into one of the most technologically advanced nations on the planet, though at the price of international condemnation and a plethora of embargoes that on occasion almost led to the UK's collapse and her disposition.
"The Iron Marshal reigns but does not rule"