Certainly Not "A Non-Country"

I fully expect, and on balance rather hope, that Nigel Farage will be returned at Buckingham. But didn't we once fight a war at least ostensibly to defend Belgium, historically our principal ally and trading partner on the Continent, an entity not unlike our own United Kingdom, even headed by a monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and with a social democracy based on Christian principles?