Talk:Royal Navy (original)/@comment-24301892-20150828083817/@comment-27797576-20150828190027

Marc, those territories are islands, with almost no industry of their own. And either way, in RP, those territories have often been in the hands of others, and not the UK itself.(looks at territories in the pacific) Plus, what derp said has truth to it. Without much in terms of other places to go, the UK government would have probably desolved into the UGE, making the point of having other land mostly irrelevant. Not that it's other territories would provide enough landmass to gain much in RP, or really, anything. The UK government, even if not completely engulfed, would have enough trouble maintaining the economy, much less anything else.

And I know for a FACT France doesn't have much in terms of any landmass outside of itself(maybe 5 territories at best, and all of them are very, very small islands, all for tourism)