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Two largish islands, Britain and Ireland. But southern Britain was originally hundreds of tiny kingdoms which were all swallowed up into England, and northern Britain was divided into sort-of warring clans, who came together to form Scotland.

In Ireland, every county was a kingdom, until the British came and conquered all. But the Feinian Men rebelled against England, and only the six counties of Northern Ireland were still under Great Britain.

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