"...this is the place we have to entangle."

"...the United Kingdom is not a single country but it instead is a 'country of countries' that contains inside of it..."

"...most populous of the nations and contains the de facto capital city London."

"...have their own devolved parliaments and allowed to vote on English law despite the reverse not being true."

"...the English generally regard the rest as rural yokels..."

"The Island of Ireland contains on it two countries..."

"...England in particular likes to pretend that it’s an island in the mid-Atlantic..."

"To review, the two largest islands in the British Isles..."

"Ireland has in it two countries..."

"the British empire once span a fourth of the world's land and governed nearly a fourth of the world's people."

"...nations gained independence through diplomacy, not bloodshed."

"...These wannabe nations struck a deal with the Empire where they continued"

"crown that sits behind the glass in the Tower of London, and earns billions of tourist pound for the UK..."

"...the Crown as a complicated and legal entity best thought of as a one-man corporation. Who created this corporation? God did"

"...crowned at a Christian ceremony"

"...God, however, not wanting to be bothered with micromanagement, conveniently delegates his powered to an entity called the Crown"

"While there used to be the physical crown in the Tower of London, it devolved over time into a legal corporation so able to be controlled only by the ruling monarch"

"It’s a useful reminder that the United Kingdom is still technically a theocracy..."

"Such are the oddities that arise with dealing with a thousand year old Monarchy"

"still recognize the Monarchy as the head of state even though it has little real power within their borders."

"But the UK does reserve the right to override the laws at their local assemblies"

"There are still a couple of loose threads, such as this place..."

"...between the United Kingdom and Argentina that they went to war over them."

"These places belong in the last group of Crown Properties"

"...they are last vestiges of the British Empire."

"For our final diagram, the United Kingdom is a country..."