A list of books churchgoers were forbidden to read.
The Index Librorum Prohibitorum, first published in 1559, was a list of books once forbidden by Roman Catholic church authority as threatening to the morals of Roman Catholics. A book was placed on the Index by order of the Sacred Congregation of the Roman Inquisition, of the Sacred Office, or of the Index itself.
It was Great Britain. You can see it through the fact that English is still spoken there. Southern Rhodesia is today's Zimbabwe and Northern Rhodesia is today's Zambia.