Western European royal families and financial houses establish the UKE as climate pressures reshape the continent.
The UKE is the most counterintuitive post-Upheaval power: the old aristocracy and financial elite didn't just survive, they thrived. When democratic institutions collapsed under climate pressure, the families with the oldest money stepped in.
The UKE maintains the architecture of constitutional monarchy while actual governance runs through a council of financial houses. Flooded London's lower city has become its own subculture — amphibious, ungovernable, indispensable.