<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?xml-stylesheet href="/rss/styles.xsl" type="text/xsl"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Universal Register</title><description>Recently added and updated articles — the nations, polities, people, and institutions of the United Kingdom of America.</description><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>American Virgin Islands</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/polities/american-virgin-islands/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/polities/american-virgin-islands/</guid><description>The American Virgin Islands, a Crown territory of the United Kingdom of America outside the polities: St Thomas, St John and St Croix, bought from Denmark in 1917 without the islanders being asked, governed by the Navy until 1931, made citizens by an Act of 1927, self-governing under a Premier since 1970, and represented in Parliament by one Member of the Commons who may speak and may not vote.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Accession: The Contemporary Record</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/institutions/abc-the-accession/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/institutions/abc-the-accession/</guid><description>Transcripts from the American Broadcasting Corporation&apos;s national service on Tuesday 31 October 2028, when the Realm, last of the realms, gave effect to the abdication of Ernest V before midday, and at two in the afternoon in New Westminster, six in the evening in London, his son became King George V at fifteen, at school; with the Commons and the Lords, the Regent&apos;s assent, the moment of the demise, the proclamation from the steps of Columbia Palace, and the two statements that followed.</description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The King&apos;s Question: The Contemporary Record</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/institutions/abc-the-kings-question/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/institutions/abc-the-kings-question/</guid><description>Transcripts from the American Broadcasting Corporation&apos;s national service on Wednesday 25 October 2028, when the Royal American Supreme Court unanimously upheld the five seats of the Territory of Loreto in the morning, and in the afternoon Prince Frederick told the Realm from Columbia Palace that King Ernest V had asked what an abdication would require in each of his fourteen realms; with the judgment&apos;s summary, the physicians&apos; note, the Prince&apos;s statement, the Prime Minister in the Lords, the British Prime Minister in Downing Street and the evening&apos;s account of what nobody yet knew.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Interstate Highways Act 1956</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/institutions/interstate-highways-act-1956/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/institutions/interstate-highways-act-1956/</guid><description>The Act of Parliament that created the National System of Interstate and Defence Highways, the Ministry of Transportation and the Highways Fund, under which the polities built the Realm&apos;s motorways with federal money and cut through the centres of its cities; with the full text of the Act and a list of the routes of the System.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>March (polity)</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/institutions/march/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/institutions/march/</guid><description>The March, the Realm&apos;s designation for a frontier polity made by Act of Parliament under a Crown-appointed head with emergency powers and treaty nations&apos; land inside it: the Northern March of 1861 to 1889, converted to the State of the Dakotas, and the March of Arizona since 1884.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Oklahoma City</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/land/oklahoma-city/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/land/oklahoma-city/</guid><description>The largest city of the State of Oklahoma-Sequoyah, founded in a single afternoon in the land run of 1889, the federal city of the plains, and the place where a lorry bomb killed 168 people on 19 April 1995 and the law was deliberately left as it was.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>French Third Republic</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/foreign-nations/french-third-republic/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/foreign-nations/french-third-republic/</guid><description>The French Third Republic (1870 to 1934): the parliamentary republic proclaimed after Sedan, made by one vote in 1875, armed in 1889 with an emergency article written against Boulanger, defeated in the First Great War, and handed to Henri Delacroix under that article in February 1934; whether it ended then or in 1945 is still argued.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Indochina War</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/history/the-indochina-war/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/history/the-indochina-war/</guid><description>The Indochina War (1961 to 1975): the United Kingdom of America&apos;s war in support of the State of Vietnam against the communist north and the National Liberation Front, begun with Kennedy&apos;s advisers, turned into a large air and ground war by Johnson, wound down by Nixon to a ceasefire in 1973, and ended when the Commons refused supply in March 1975 and Saigon fell on 30 April.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Paul II</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/people/paul-ii/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/people/paul-ii/</guid><description>Paul II, Emperor of All Russia since 25 October 2028: born at Richmond in 1986, head of the exiled House of Romanov from 2019, a former captain of the Coldstream Guards and a director of a City merchant bank, proclaimed at the Tauride Palace in St Petersburg on the night Russia voted by more than three in four to restore a constitutional monarchy under his house.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The World Economy</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/world-institutions/world-economy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/world-institutions/world-economy/</guid><description>The economies of the world&apos;s states measured in the American pound: the two league tables, by nominal value and by total output, and why they disagree; the pound as the world&apos;s reserve currency; the blocs, the pegs and the funds; and how the order came to be.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Russia&apos;s Two Days: The Contemporary Record</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/institutions/abc-russias-two-days/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/institutions/abc-russias-two-days/</guid><description>Transcripts from the American Broadcasting Corporation&apos;s national service between the evening of Monday 23 October and the evening of Wednesday 25 October 2028, when President Yermolov confined Russia&apos;s army to its barracks and decreed a free election, Russia elected Dmitri Gromov, voted the same day to restore the Romanovs, and saw Paul II proclaimed Emperor before midnight; with the corporation&apos;s written report, and the night on which the Moscow bureau stopped telling its audience that its reports had been read by the Russian security service before they were broadcast.</description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The House of Romanov</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/people/house-of-romanov/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/people/house-of-romanov/</guid><description>The House of Romanov, the imperial house of Russia from 1613 to 1917 and again since 25 October 2028, and in British exile between: the dynasty that fell without being massacred, the heads who lived at Richmond for a hundred and ten years, and the referendum that gave the crown back to Paul II.</description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Zohran Mamdani</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/people/zohran-mamdani/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/people/zohran-mamdani/</guid><description>Zohran Mamdani, Mayor of New York since January 2028: a Labour member of the Assembly of New York for Astoria who won the City&apos;s open primary from one per cent in the polls, was elected over the former Premier Andrew Cuomo, and has made the buses and the nurseries free and frozen regulated rents through the City&apos;s own powers.</description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Columbia Cathedral</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/land/columbia-cathedral/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/land/columbia-cathedral/</guid><description>The Cathedral Church of St. Michael and All Angels, New Westminster: the national seat of the Church of America and the cathedral of the Diocese of New Westminster, built on the northern ridge of the capital in phases from 1856 to 1924 to the design of George Gilbert Scott, successor to a brick cathedral of 1806 that burned in 1854, and the setting of the Realm&apos;s accession services, its state funerals and the May Day Memorial Evensong.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tomb of the Unknown Soldier</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/land/tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/land/tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier/</guid><description>The Realm&apos;s tomb of an unidentified soldier of the First Great War, on the crest of the Robert E. Lee National Cemetery at Arlington: dedicated on 11 November 1921, joined by an unknown of the second war in 1958, held as Crown ground under an Order in Council of 1921, and guarded day and night since 1937 by the Tomb Company of the Regiment of Virginia.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stephen Alcott</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/people/stephen-alcott/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/people/stephen-alcott/</guid><description>Stephen James Alcott, an American journalist and ABC national television presenter, whose career began in neighbourhood newspaper reporting in Los Angeles.</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ethiopia</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/foreign-nations/ethiopia/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/foreign-nations/ethiopia/</guid><description>The empire of the Ethiopian highlands and the Horn of Africa, never conquered by a colonial power, a parliamentary monarchy under the Solomonic house since the constitution of 1974, with Eritrea as a federated state and Djibouti as an autonomous region. It is the fourth most populous state in Africa, and the dam it built on the Blue Nile lies at the centre of the Nile crisis.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Isle of Man</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/foreign-nations/isle-of-man/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/foreign-nations/isle-of-man/</guid><description>A self-governing dependency of the British Crown in the Irish Sea, held by the King as Lord of Mann, a lordship and not a Crown, with the oldest continuous parliament in the world, Tynwald, which proclaims its laws on a hill each July; its capital is Castletown and its government sits at Douglas.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kamerun</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/foreign-nations/kamerun/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/foreign-nations/kamerun/</guid><description>A German associated state on the Gulf of Guinea, the first of the former protectorates to be converted, in 1955, and the only one whose head of state is the German Emperor, reigning as Kaiser von Kamerun through a governor-general appointed on the advice of Kamerun&apos;s own Prime Minister. Its citizens are German nationals by treaty, its mark is pegged to the German mark, and the cost of the association is the main subject of its politics.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The King Wakes: The Contemporary Record</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/institutions/abc-the-king-wakes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/institutions/abc-the-king-wakes/</guid><description>Transcripts from the American Broadcasting Corporation&apos;s national service on Friday 20 October 2028, when King Ernest V regained consciousness at New Westminster General twenty-five days after the loss of the royal flight Kittyhawk; with the physicians&apos; two bulletins read in full, the resolution of the five officers of the Regency Act 1811 and the Speaker&apos;s concurrence written beneath it, the Prince of Columbia&apos;s statement, the Prime Minister at the bar of the House of Commons, the statements of the twelve other realms with regencies as they came in through the day, the corporation&apos;s written report, and the forty-six minutes in the morning in which the ABC told its audience something the bulletin had not said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bailiwick of Guernsey</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/foreign-nations/bailiwick-of-guernsey/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/foreign-nations/bailiwick-of-guernsey/</guid><description>A Crown dependency of three self-governing islands in the Gulf of Saint-Malo, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark, with its own Crown, a States governed by committees and no parties, a Norman customary law, a final appeal still to London, the one occupied island of the Channel Islands&apos; war, and the last feudal state in Europe.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Federal Kingdom of Nigeria</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/foreign-nations/federal-kingdom-of-nigeria/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/foreign-nations/federal-kingdom-of-nigeria/</guid><description>The most populous state in Africa, a federation of thirty-six states and a small federal territory at Lagos, under a national crown created by the Lagos Convention of 1959 and held since independence by an Ijaw family from the Niger Delta. It went through a coup, a pogrom, a civil war and a famine without a military government, and it runs on oil whose revenue and pollution it has never settled.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Order of the Charter</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/institutions/order-of-the-charter/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/institutions/order-of-the-charter/</guid><description>The Order of the Charter, the principal order of the United Kingdom of America: five grades from Companion to Knight or Dame Grand Cross, created in 1859 by a backbench amendment to the Parliamentary Reform Act, the only order in the Realm founded by statute, and entrenched in the Charter of Union in 1924 by a drafting error nobody intended.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kingdom of the American States</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/history/kingdom-of-the-american-states/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/history/kingdom-of-the-american-states/</guid><description>The Kingdom of the American States, the rebel state of 1861 to 1863: five slaveholding polities governed from Charles Town under a Lord Protector, which claimed to be the King&apos;s loyal subjects, never agreed on a name, never had a seal, petitioned the King twice and was answered by silence, and was ended by the surrender of its army at Bennett Place.</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sherman&apos;s March to the Sea</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/history/shermans-march-to-the-sea/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/history/shermans-march-to-the-sea/</guid><description>Sherman&apos;s March to the Sea, the campaign of May to July 1863 in which William T. Sherman took Atlanta, burned it on his own decision without the authority of any minister, and marched sixty-two thousand men two hundred and eighty-five miles across Georgia to Savannah, cutting the rebel state in two.</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Treaty Nations of the United Kingdom of America</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/institutions/treaty-nations/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/institutions/treaty-nations/</guid><description>The Indigenous nations that hold land under treaty with the Crown in right of America and govern themselves outside the law of the polities: their constitutional basis, the four arrangements under which they hold their standing, recognition, the machinery of government, courts and money, their history since 1783, and the record of the Realm&apos;s dealings with them.</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Royal Family Tree</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/family-tree/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/family-tree/</guid><description>The House of Hanover from George III to George V, with the houses it married into, Sweden, Prussia, Coburg and Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and the grand-ducal houses of Michigan and Minnesota.</description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AmRail</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/institutions/amrail/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/institutions/amrail/</guid><description>AmRail, the American Railway Corporation: the Crown corporation set up in 1971 to run the passenger trains the private railways no longer wanted, which was expected to close within five years, was saved by an oil shock and by the House of Lords, and now runs two high-speed lines, a dozen sleepers and a case before the Supreme Court.</description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Atlas</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/atlas/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/atlas/</guid><description>The Realm on a map, year by year from 1775, with the territories, republics and foreign powers that held each part of it before it joined the Union.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bailiwick of Jersey</title><link>https://american-register.vercel.app/foreign-nations/bailiwick-of-jersey/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://american-register.vercel.app/foreign-nations/bailiwick-of-jersey/</guid><description>A Crown dependency twenty kilometres off the Norman coast, with its own Crown, its own parliament and a Norman customary law, which was besieged for five years and never occupied, and whose economy rests on a financial status that other governments could change.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>