(GriffonAAR is winding down, so off to a new one.)

Her Majesty's Empire
January 1, 1933

With territories from New York City to Hanoi to Tahiti, the sun never sets on the British Empire. This year, Queen Victoria I celebrates her 96th-year-reign. Her half-metal body, kept alive through organ prosthetics, still allows her to preside over the greatest empire to ever exist. She, like most of the British elite, live in the Upper Canopy of London that towers above the Lower Canopy, where the working class live. In recent years, the Metropolitan Water Board has injected Vitamin D into the water supply to minimize the occurrences of hypovitaminosis D among the unfortunate many who cannot afford to live in the sunlight of the Upper Canopy.

The British Empire remains in partial isolation, which she entered following her victory in the Great War against the combined might of France and Russia, and Spain to a lesser extent.

Germany, which extends from the Baltic to the Adriatic, still suffers from its Long Depression. Russia, with her many client states that include the rump-state of the Ottoman Empire, lies in wait for an opportunity to enlarge her massive empire. France, having had so many of its territories stripped from it, looks with hate to "exorcise th[e] degenerate Judeo-Germanic curse" of the United Kingdoms of Germany from Europe.

In America, the megacorporation Edison International Electric Company (EIEC) continues its vast monopolization of all facets of American life. Prime Minister Calvin Coolidge, who had a heart attack in 1931, may not last long. Britons wonder whether his death will create ripples of disorder in the Americas, which are already tense with friction.

Sir John Pershing continues his Americanization efforts in the British East Africa Protectorate. The British territory of Indochina faces a revolt by Vietnamese revolutionaries under Phan Boi Chau.

Britons across the Empire are hopeful that 1933 will bring another year of peace to the Empire.