HRH Queen Elizabeth II dies. Charles accedes to the throne but the reading of Her Late Majesty's will reveals that she has bequeathed the country to her favourite corgi. Charles declares independence for the Duchy of Cornwall, and rules as Grand Duke on the wave of popularity among the cornish which the move generates.
The rest of Britain is ruled by first Liberal Democrat PM Lembit Opik, with a genetic clone of Princess Diana as co-regent.
Andy Black is destroyed by a pole-reversing meteorite which hits Yellowstone, causing it to erupt and melt the icecaps, but even that fails to stop the nanobots. A few thousand of the planet's most intelligent and beautiful people, as well as renowned president-assassinator Rendle, escape to Titan to finish building their giant space ark.
Paraguay, which had buggered off again just before the whole business with the meteor and the pole reversal and Yellowstone and the nanites, reappears and is startled by all the changes.
Kenny The Wisdom of Amazon Customer Reviews:
(Sudden Cardiac Arrest would be a bit redundant, anyway. I mean, in medical terms "sudden" is synonymous with "acute," which is the opposite of "chronic." It's not like anyone is in a state of CHRONIC Cardiac Arrest. That's called "dead." The closest thing would be Congestive Heart Failure, which can be either chronic or acute, and if that's something you need to worry about, then your doctor's already told you everything you need to know.)
Parakeets, unsure whether they have been named after a country or not, decide that they've had enough and form a political party dedicated to fighting the war against television. Nothing comes of it, though.
Paratroopers are sent to fight the paraplegics on the previously neutral grounds of Paraguay, and are defeated as the parakeets decide to ally with the paraplegics to form the Paralliance.
Deriviative humorous posts about words which start with "para" are outlawed. Violators are punished by stoning. The giant space ark finally launches and heads for Alpha Centauri; The Romans win with 110%.
