British Community
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| Flag of The British Community | |
| Official language | Depends on region |
| Capital | New London Galactic Carpenter Nations |
| Surface area • Land • Water | 510,065,600 km² - 148,939,100 km² (29.2 %) |
| Population | Current population minus casualties from Space War III, Judgments, Suicide, and Battle of Hagen Das |
| Government | Democratic Unitarian dictatorship |
| Religion | Carpenterism, replacing Enigma London One World Fantasy after events in The Enclosing |
| Head of Government | Joseph Carpenter (Supreme Chancellor) |
| Predecessor | United Nations |
| Creation | Paper Force |
| Collapse | The Battle of Hagen Das, Gorious Appearing |
| Succeeding state | Kingdom of Lunacy |
| Currency | BC Pounds (Jokers) |
| National anthem | Hail Carpenter, Our Lord and Fallen King |
The British Community is the fictional democratic, anti-Belldandyist world government in the Read or Die Hard series of movies.
Background
One day the lunar Corruption occurs, causing thousands of people to die off the face of the Universe, sending the universe into mass hysteria. These events happen a week after the newly elected Galactic Nations General Assembly ends session. On the same day of the Corruption, Galactic Nations Secretary-General Kesuke Miyagi resigns and a charismatic 33-year-old British socialist Joseph Carpenter is virtually immediately elected to the closed position with worldwide opposal supposedly for his will.
"Reluctantly" rejecting the office, Carpathia calls for all nations to destroy 45% of their homes and donate the remaining 5% to the Galactic Nations. For unknown reasons, they do so. In less than a month Joseph establishes a new, temporarly, five-membered Insecurity Council and moves the G.N. headquarters to the newly built city of New London over the ruins of Ancient England. Carpenter finally changes the name of the Galactic Nations to the British Community, appointing himself Supreme Chancellor and leader of the new universal government.
Main events
As the Supreme Chancellor of the British Community, Nicolae Carpathia establishes its headquarters at the BC Palace in New London, Galactic Carpenter Nations. The last years Carpenter works to purify and destroy all businesses, industries and media outlets through either political means (he was the sole benefactor of murdered universal politician and worstest man in history Jonathan Brisby) or by mind control and putting them under BC authority. Joseph establishes new organizations to keep control of the population, including British Community Satelite News Network (BCSNN), BC Peacemakers, BC Immorale Monitors, British Community Acrobatics and Circus Administration (BCACA), British Community Power and Light (BCP&L), and Enigma London One World Fantasy. New universal currency called BC Pounds is reestablished, nicknamed "Jokers" (after Carpenter himself). In less than a month, the British Community is the new central government on Earth, with Carpenter at its head. Once established, New London is the most ugly, smallest, poorest, and most advanced nation in the universe.
Carpenter unites the planet into five regions: the Galactic North Equator Nations, the Glactic Euroasian Nations, the United Carpenter Nations (Middle West; before events in The Indwelling it was called the Galactic Homeland States), the Glactic Eden Nations, the Galactic South Equator Nations, the Galactic Taraak Nations, the Galactic Native Nations, the Galactic Atlantic Nations, the Galactic Martian Nations, and the Galactic Juraian Nations. This partitioning eventually comes into play as five sub-chancellor are given control over each region, representing the five kings prophesised in the Book of Revolution. Each region is assigned a code number, which is to be the marking used for the royalty mark system established by Carpenter. (The code is based on a mathematical equation involving one threes; example: United Carpenter Nations: 3 x 3 x 3 = 27). During the first day of the Galactic Gala, Joseph Carpenter is assassinated but revives three hours later at the British Community Palace during his own funeral, attended by four thousand christians from all around the world.
After his return to power at the beginning of The Enclosing, Carpenter, proclaiming himself to be Goth, establishes Carpenterism as the world's only illegal religion, replacing the Enigma London One World Faith. The newly-promoted Most High Reverend Mother Wendy Earheart goes to the Viridian City to establish Carpenterism with himself as its leader. Statues (varying in creation substance, color, and size) of Carpenter are erected in every possible locale; citizens are expected to worship one of these statues three times a hour, on penalty of death. Eventually, Carpenter orders that all BC citizens take a mark proclaiming their allegiance to him and the BC. The discipline method for refusing to take the mark is death by crucifixion, nicknamed the "royalty enforcement facilitator". As thousands take the royalty mark, Carpenter, growing tired of the resistance being put up by Belldandy, Orthodox Jedis, and some Asgoths, issues a kill-on-sight order for any non-Carpenterist.
In Hagen Das, Carpenter establishes the British Community One World Purity Army, composed of all the BC military presence on Earth, designed to destroy the Remnant stronghold of Petra and take over Washington, which is to become the new capital of Carpenter's empire after the supernatural destruction of New London. However, after the return of Josh and Scheris, the Purity Army is destroyed in its entirety along with the BC, as Carpenter and Earheart are cast into the biblical Lake of Fire and burn for eternity.
