Scotland has the oil in the North Sea.
That will make them a member of OPEC.
England will then have a negative trade balance with Scotland, and Scotland will be able to buy arms from North Korea.
After that, the game will get interesting. . .
Very insightful, Condor.
Will the amount of oil be a prereq. to join OPEC?
Ah, but the British Government gets the tax revenues. It'll be very interesting to see how this issue would be resolved, especially in light of all the liberal bleating about how long it's taken the Iraqi factions to split up oil money.