POSICIÓN OFICIAL / OFFICIAL POSITION
Name: Santiago Rodríguez Reyes
Committee: General Assembly
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Professor: Jorge Refugio Garcia Diaz
Total area: 244,376 km2.
Territorial boundaries: North and west with the Atlantic ocean, east with the North
Sea, and south with the English Channel. It also shares a land border with Ireland.
Shores: Coastlines of 12428.96 km2.
Population: 69 million people.
Ethnic distribution: 81.7% of the population is white. Asian ethnic groups made up the
second largest percentage (9.3%), followed by black (4.0%), mixed (2.9%), and other
(2.1%) ethnic groups, based on a census from 4 years ago.
Religion: 46.2% of the population is christian. People with no religion, otherwise known
as atheists, make up the 37.2% of people, followed by muslim (6.5%), hindu, (1.7%), as
well as other religions (8.4%), based on a census from 4 years ago.
Language: English.
Government system: Constitutional monarchy.
Legal system: Parliamentary Sovereignty, with England and Wales having a unified
court system, and Scotland and Northern Ireland having separate legal systems.
Government election system: Parliamentary system, where the political party that
wins the most seats in the House of Commons at a general election forms the
government. The leader of the winning party is then appointed as Prime Minister by the
monarch.
Member of: United Nations Security Council, Commonwealth, and the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO).
Main allies: United States of America, France, Canada, Japan.
Main enemies: Russia, China.
Economy: $3.84 trillion. Main industry is the service sector, with retail and wholesale
being a significant part of the economy, and healthcare and social work being the
largest employers.
Investment on hydric stress: More than $140 billion (3.64%) in the private sector,
such as water companies.
-History-
The UK has been inhabited continuously since the Neolithic. In AD 43 the Roman
conquest of Britain Began; the Roman departure was followed by Anglo-Saxon
settlement. In 1066 the Normans conquered England. With the end of the Wars of the
Roses the Kingdom of England stabilised and began to grow in power, resulting by the
16th century in the annexation of Wales and the establishment of the British Empire.
Over the course of the 17th century the role of the British monarchy was reduced,
particularly as a result of the English Civil War. In 1707 the Kingdom of England and the
Kingdom of Scotland united under the Treaty of Union to create the Kingdom of Great
Britain. In the Georgian era the office of prime minister was established. The Acts of
Union 1800 incorporated the Kingdom of Ireland to create the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland in 1801. Most of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922 as the Irish
Free State, and the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 created the present United
Kingdom.
