Challenge: Make the British Empire Conquer the World

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Your challenge, with a POD no earlier than 1775, is to make Britain conquer the entire world by the year 2000 to form the United Kingdom of Earth, a democratic and stable state, with no ethnic groups getting slaughtered in the process. Can you do it?
 
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Your challenge, with a POD no earlier than 1775, is to make Britain conquer the entire world by the year 2000 to form the United Kingdom of Earth, a democratic and stable state, with no ethnic groups getting slaughtered in the process. Can you do it?
Ah.....I....um....have....to.....go....now. :D
Seriosly though this is ASB.
 
Instead of the mob, have the french kill jesus, because then everybody would side with Brits on any matter. Propaganda was pretty good in the late 1700's.
 
"Most interesting parts..." hur hur hur. The most promising part of the British Empire revolted in 1776. Canada, South Afrika, Australia... nothing can compare to the U. S. of A. You're gonna need a POD earlier than 1775 to conquer the world.
 
"Most interesting parts..." hur hur hur. The most promising part of the British Empire revolted in 1776. Canada, South Afrika, Australia... nothing can compare to the U. S. of A. You're gonna need a POD earlier than 1775 to conquer the world.
Right, and what is Australia then? Chopped liver?
 
The whole world by 2000 seems a little ASB, having a British Empire so powerful that they can treat the rest of the world as semi-autonomous vassals is marginally achievable.
 
I've briefly considered timeline like this. It was for alternative Star Trek however (with British Commonwealth of Planets and HMS Enterprise), so it was really vague. It had Earth united somewhere in the 22th century. Not very realistic but passable in a world with Klingons and warp drive...
 
Another Brit wank, great :D! I think this is possible. But it cannot succeed if Great Britain alone is the 'core' of this empire. You need to find a way for Britain to unite with all her dominions and colonies (including the USA) in the early 19th century. Better still, before the Napoleonic war.
This way, Britain's financial, industrial, and military power will be amplified without diminishing or diluting her culture in any significant way.
'Greater Britain' would have the strength to simultaneously rule China and India by the mid-19th century. China would be easy, boot out the emperor, bribe the mandarins to administer China on behalf of Britain and give Victoria the dragon throne.
Then during the 1860's and 70's annex all the remaining parts of Africa, pissing all of the European powers off in the process, but who cares?
Build up economy in the late 19th/early 20th centuries through mass production and the exploitation of the massive export market which Britain controls.
France and Germany try to take on Britain around 1910 but get thrashed along with the Ottoman empire. Britain forces France and Germany to disarm, bankrupts them through reparations and takes their overseas territories.
After the war Britain controls most of the world's oil supply and trade. She can destroy any nation's economy through embargoes and blockades.
In 1918 Britain invades Russia and destroys the Bolsheviks and reinstates the Tsar as a puppet monarch.
Britain will not rule the entire world directly but will control most of its economy and later she will explode an atomic bomb and not permit other nations to posess them.
That felt good :D
 
And what makes you think that the other nations just watch how greater britain conquers the entire world and in the end when it's to late they decide to attack. And why wouldn't there be any nation that revolts? Maybe even with help from other important nations. And how could greater britain possibly win an European war when whole of Europe forms an alliance? For example: even the small country of the Netherlands would be a threat for the english navy like it was in real life.
 
Well Britain managed to build the largest empire in history on her own despite competion from other major powers. So I'm just thinking that a strong union Between Britain, North America (minus Mexico) and Australasia might be able to do a little better:)
 
"Most interesting parts..." hur hur hur. The most promising part of the British Empire revolted in 1776. Canada, South Afrika, Australia... nothing can compare to the U. S. of A. You're gonna need a POD earlier than 1775 to conquer the world.
Not exactly. Had things turned out differently after the Treaty of Paris, the USA could have been awfully much smaller then OTL, with a much larger, stronger, British North America. It was not exactly inevitable that the USA would stretch from ocean to ocean...
Which doesn't change the fact that you do need a POD earlier then 1775 to conquer the world (at least, conquer the world by 2000), much earlier.
 
1775 may be too late.

a few years earlier it would be possible.

Actually, I would think that 'conquering' is not going to work. If, however, the *British Empire early on develops responsible self-government for its Dominions (starting with the 13 colonies), it could easily get to the point where people WANT to join.

Example. In some war with Spain, Britain takes (part of) Argentina. After the war, Argentina gets three choices, 1) go back to Spain, 2) independence 3) join the *BE. If there are enough economic and cultural advantages, they might choose option 3.

Some sort of Imperial Preference policy (common external tarrifs) would encourage countries who wanted access to the world's largest market/trading network.

The entire ocean could be 'Mare Nostrum' (?Mare Britannicum?)


Starting ~1760, this would be entirely possible. Starting 1775, it does verge on ASB.
 
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