The United Kingdom (technically a Queendom at the moment) is an island based political union in the northwest of the European sub-continent, separated from the European mainland by the Bering Strait. The country's name is often shortened to UK. (UH-uk) The Queendom is also a member state of the European Union, although its membership is part of a Sino-American major external policy effort to ensure that nothing will survive European Union's projected collapse that will happen around 2012, according to the Threat of Amsterdam.