9 Nations

The nine nations of North America



* New England (also called New Britain or Atlantica) - an expanded version including not only Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut (although omitting the Connecticut suburbs of New York City), but also the Canadian Atlantic provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Gaspe Peninsula of Quebec. Capital: Boston.

* The Foundry - the by-then-declining industrial areas of the northeastern United States and Great Lakes region stretching from New York City to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and including Chicago, Illinois and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as well as industrial southern Ontario centering on Toronto. Capital: Detroit.

* Dixie - the traditional Confederate States of America, which are today the southern and southeastern U.S. states, centered on Atlanta, Georgia, and including most of eastern Texas to Austin. "Dixie" also includes Kentucky, which had both Federal and Confederate governments, southern portions of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, and the "Little Dixie" region of southeastern Oklahoma. Finally, "Dixie" includes most of Florida as far south as the cities of Fort Myers and Naples. Capital: Atlanta.

* The Breadbasket - most of the Great Plains states and part of the Prairie provinces: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Oklahoma, most of western Missouri, western Wisconsin, eastern Colorado, parts of Illinois and Indiana, and northern Texas as well as some of 'near-North' Ontario, and southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Capital: Kansas City

* The Islands - The South Florida metropolitan area, the Florida Keys, the Caribbean, and parts of Venezuela. Capital: Miami

* Mexamerica — the southern and Central Valley portions of California as well as southern Arizona, the portion of Texas bordering on the Rio Grande, most of New Mexico and all of Mexico, centered on either Los Angeles or Mexico City (depending on whom you ask), which are significantly Spanish-speaking. Northern Mexico and the Baja California peninsula. Capital: Los Angeles

* Ecotopia - the Pacific Northwest coast west of the Cascade Range stretching from Alaska in the north to coastal areas of British Columbia, down through Washington state, Oregon and into California just north of Santa Barbara. Capital: San Francisco

* The Empty Quarter - most of Alaska, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and Colorado from Denver west, as well as the eastern portions of Oregon, California, Washington, all of Alberta and Northern Canada (including Nunavut, although not yet created at that time), northern Arizona, parts of New Mexico, and British Columbia east of the Coast Ranges. Capital: Denver

* Quebec - the primarily French-speaking province of Canada, whose legislature is called the National Assembly of Quebec, and which has held referendums on secession in 1980 and 1995, the latter of which the secessionists lost narrowly. Capital: Quebec City

Aberrations:

* Washington, D.C. and its surrounding area, specifically referring to the area "inside the Beltway".
* Manhattan south of Harlem, and by extension the Manhattan neighborhoods to its north, are clearly within The Foundry).
* Hawaii, which is considered an Asian aberration as much as a North American aberration.

I'm moving out of the foundry to Dixie.