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British (i.e. Wales, England, Scotland, and Ireland... I really hate having to type this out every time so for future reference whenever I say Britain I refer to the region of the British Isles not the "United Kingdom")... etc.)...
The best replacement for typing out all the nationalities of the two islands of Great Britain and Ireland would be to type "GB and I" or "GB&I". That's what I'll do from now on.

This Wikipedia link is not bad on this whole problem of naming these islands.
British Isles (terminology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
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