Starship UK

Starship UK was a huge ship built to house the population of the United Kingdom (excluding Scotland, who used their own ship) during their journey to find another planet to live on, after the Earth and all life on it was threatened by Solar Flares in the 29th century.It was built around, and propelled by a Star Whale (the last of its kind), which was continuously tortured with an electrical device in 'The Tower' to keep it moving. The Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond discovered that it was run by the Smilers and the Government instead of its rightful queen, Elizabeth the Tenth. They also found out that Elizabeth kept discovering the nature of the ships propulsion, but choose to 'forget' rather than abdicate and release the whale. In the end Doctor's companion Amy Pond resolved everything by making the Queen press 'abdicate', which released the Star Whale. The Star Whale did not abandon the Starship UK, because it had volunteered to move the ship. In fact, with the Star Whale not being tortured anymore, the ship moved even faster than it had.

Every 5 years the people of the Starship UK would vote whether to protest at this treatment, or forget about it, and every 5 years they all chose to forget. The Queen Elizabeth ('Liz') the 10th was not aware of how the ship was powered. She deduced that it did not have an engine because there were no vibrations from an engine but endeavored to find out why this was the case. Every 10 years she discovered the truth, and chose to forget rather then abdicate and release the Star Whale.(DW: The Beast Below)