In the film a devastating plague known as the St. In place of the nuclear war of the novel version, biological weapons are used instead. With all top officials of the party and government dead Norsefire collapsed and Britain fell into Anarchy. As riots rocked the streets Susan declared martial law but was assassinated by the wife of one of his former minsters, Peter Creedy declared himself 'emergency commander' but was himself later assassinated. However a masked vigilante only known as V began assassinating high ranking member's of government slowly destabilising Norsefire rule in Britain. The head of the party is Leader Adam Susan, a self-proclaimed fascist who seems to worship Fate, the super-computer surveillance system that oversees the nation. Although competition exists between the varying branches of the state, they generally have complete control over the United Kingdom. Norsefire eventually shut down the concentration camps after it essentially had complete control of society. The British monarchy continues under Queen Zara. They also took over the television companies, creating NTV (Norsefire Television), and implemented the technologies that would allow for a closely-monitored society, including closed-circuit television. They began promoting and demoting members of the clergy as they saw fit. They began to sink their influence into the Church of England, giving it more power and influence. With their potential enemies all removed within a short space of time, Norsefire began consolidating their weaknesses over the country. Other minorities such as homosexuals and immigrants as well as political leftists were also purged from society as Norsefire slowly took over every aspect of society. However, while the Norsefire regime did indeed bring order back to the country, this order came at a cost: ethnic and religious minorities such as Africans, Asians, Jews and Muslims were sent to concentration camps. From the madness of the violence came the ultra right-wing Norsefire regime: fascists that had united with the surviving big companies and businesses, giving them the appearance of wealth and stability. The government quickly collapsed and chaos overran the country. This in its turn had a knock-on effect on the British economy, and mass riots broke out. Although the United Kingdom did not suffer any nuclear attacks, the effects of full-scale nuclear war on other countries had severe effects on the environment, and thus on farming. This allowed Britain to narrowly avoid involvement in the international nuclear war of 1988.

The Labour Party won the British private election of 1983 and disarmed all of the United Kingdom's nuclear capabilities.

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