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State of Allegheny (AL)
Two Forts (Pittsburgh)
Lying between the major European empires, Allegheny was considered an Iroquois sphere for nearly two centuries. A growing population of White and and Mixed people made it more difficult for the Iroquois to control directly. The treaties that established local control of Allegheny are an important part of the origin of the ASB. Outside the capital of Two Forts, it is an economically struggling mountain state.

Province of the Arques (AR)
Champ-d'Espoir (West Memphis)
Also spelled Arks and once known as Middle Louisiana, this state was the result of a boundary agreement between Louisiana and Mexico. It was an important destination for Mormon settlers, and the LDS church has a strong presence in the state today.

State of Assiniboia (AS)
Winnipeg
Assiniboia was founded as an attempt by the English Hudson's Bay Company to create a settler colony in their territory of Rupertsland. Most of the settlers who arrived were French-speaking Métis with origins in the states of the ASB. Their desire for stronger links with the ASB led to conflict with the company, and Assiniboia became a member state after throwing off company rule in a revolt.

Commonwealth of the Bahamas (BA)
Rothesay (Nassau)
The Bahamas were first settled by people from Bermuda and variously attached to either Virginia or Carolina. A rebellion by Jacobite privateers set the islands on an independent course. They earned a reputation as a hive of illegal activity. Today tourism has replaced smuggling and piracy.

State of Bermuda (BE)
Saint George
Settled accidentally by English colonists after a shipwreck, Bermuda has had a storied past. Its strategic location on the way to Europe made it a key to English power in the Caribbean. Historically it was a dependency of Virginia. It became a fully separate state in the mid-19th century. Bermuda's territory included the Turks and Caicos Islands before they achieved statehood in 2018. The secession has left Bermuda as the smallest state by area.

Canada (CA)
Quebec
France's largest colony, Canada has always been one of the driving forces in the ASB's political and cultural life. Huronia and the Upper Country were originally Canadian dependencies and it had intermittent control of Illinois. Canada's alliances with interior nations are some of the ASB's bedrock institutions.

State of Carolina (CL)
Charleston
The history of Carolina is largely defined by tension, conflict, and shifting alliances between its three main ethnic groups: white Lower Carolian descendants of the first planters, black descendants of enslaved laborers, and Piedmonters, the Scottish and Scotch-Irish settlers of the mountainous Backcountry.

The Cayman Islands (CI)
George Town
Historically the islands were closely tied to Jamaica, which is not part of the ASB. The Caymans also have strong economic links to Cuba and the Bahamas and joined the ASB quite late, one of the few examples of a state joining all at once rather than being slowly drawn in to the alliance system.

Cherokee Nation (CK)
Echota (in Monroe Cty., TN)
Cherokee descends from a strong Indian chiefdom that survived colonization by strategically adopting pieces of White culture and working with England. It was formally an English protectorate before being a state of the ASB. Its head of state still has the title of Emperor - one of only a few Indian chiefs to keep a monarchical title.

Chicasaw Nation (CS)
Pontotoc (near Tupelo, MS)
Of the four southern chiefdoms, Chicasaw had the least direct influence from Europe and maintained neutrality for much of the colonial era. Nevertheless, the Chicasaw people were able to adapt their institutions into those of a modern state and thereby survive the turbulence of colonization.

Choctaw Nation (CT)
Kunsha (in Jasper Cty., MS)
Another Indian chiefdom, Choctaw's strongest colonial ties were to France via Louisiana. Like its neighbors, Choctaw incorporated what was useful from European culture to evolve into a modern state.

Realm of Christiana (CR)
Christiana (executive), Upland (legislative) (Wilmington, DE, and Woodbury, NJ)
The successor to the New Sweden colony, for much of its history it was dominated by the English of Pennsylvania, though the Swedish inhabitants were allowed to maintain a kind of separate existence. Self-government and statehood came in the late 18th century along with restored links with the Swedish monarchy. The state's identity is a hybrid of Swedish, Lenape, and English.

Republic of Cuba (CU)
Havana
Cuba had a turbulent history as part of the Spanish empire, cycling through periods of neglect and oppression. After multiple revolts, many of them led by members of Cuba's vibrant free Black community, and diplomatic intervention by the ASB, it established a republican government by the mid-19th century. Strong economic links with Louisiana and the Floridas made ASB membership natural for Cuba, but today it has an active separatist movement.

Dakota (DA)
Wahpeton (Mason City, IA)
Dakota originated as an alliance between the French and the eastern Sioux. Many Indian people from groups to the southwest came to the state in the late 19th century as Mexican homesteaders put pressure on their lands.

Principality of East Acadia (AE)
Louisbourg
A former French colony, East Acadia's capital Louisbourg is the cultural capital of the Franco-Acadian people. Acadia was made a principality in the days of the French Empire, and its people restored the monarchy when they broke away from the French Republic and called back the prince, member of a branch of the house of Bonaparte.

Republic of East Dominica (DE)
Santo Domingo
Spain's first colony and the gem of the Caribbean, Santo Domingo has had an indescribably big impact on the history of the hemisphere. It entered the community of Boreoamerican states after being conquered by the forces of liberated West Dominica. Its physical distance and history of conflict with its neighbor means that the state has always had an ambivalent relationship with the ASB. Its separatist movement is the strongest in the confederation.

Captaincy-General of East Florida (FE)
San Agustín
Spain's most successful colony on the mainland north of Mexico, East Florida kept its monarchy to this day. Its royal house is now separate from the one still in Spain, and the monarch lives in Florida.

Province of Huronia (HU)
Toronto
Named for the Huron-Petun people, Huronia was settled largely by Métis people after wars with the Iroquois seriously depopulated it. Huronia was first organized as a self-governing province of Canada, later achieving full independence from it as a separate state. Its large and well balanced economy makes it a powerhouse today.

State of Illinois (IL)
Peoria
Illinois arose from the gradual merging of the old Illinois confederacy and local French settlements into an independent, mixed Franco-Indian society. Its culture is a mix of French, Illinois Creole, English, and Potawatomi.

Confederation of Iroquoia (the Eight Nations) (IR)
Onondaga
According to oral tradition, Iroquoia was founded in the eleventh century, which would make its Grand Council the second oldest legislature in the world. Iroquoia tried to position itself as one of the continent's imperial powers back in North America's age of warfare. It claimed land to the west and south of its present borders. Its alliance with New Netherland, called the Covenant Chain, is one of the ASB's ancestral institutions.

The Labrador Coast (LA)
Rigoulette
The ASB's rugged far north, inaccessible by land, is the only subarctic state. Its governing institutions evolved from a court run by Canada and Newfoundland to regulate fishing along the coast. It gained full statehood in 1950, the most recent part of the ASB to be admitted until the 2018 accession of Turks and Caicos.

Provice of Lower Connecticut (LC)
Hartford
Connecticut was founded as a Puritan colony. It quickly bought most of the territory of the struggling Saybrook Province, including giant tracts in the far west. Connecticut's resulting colonization projects became the modern states of Upper Connecticut and Poutaxia. Lower Connecticut is a loyalist state today; it rejoined the Dominion of New England after a brief period of independence.

Province of Lower Louisiana (BL)
New Orleans
This state is the home of a celebrated creole culture combining French, Choctaw, Spanish and Caribbean elements. It remains an important trading center, though its vast wetlands are facing grave environmental threats.

Commonwealth of Lower Virginia (LV)
Williamsburg
A colony that overthrew English rule and established a republic, Virginia was by far the most expansionistic of the English states. It took over part of the coast claimed by Carolina and annexed a great deal of land west of the mountains, today the state of Upper Virginia. Virginia's acquisitiveness led to many conflicts with its neighbors, but the treaties of the early 19th century drew it into the alliance structure of the ASB.

Royal Province of Maryland (ML)
Baltimore
Maryland was founded by a manorial English Catholic family looking to profit from plantation agriculture. It separated from the rest of the English colonies after 1689 when its Lord Proprietor supported the Jacobite claimant to the throne. Nowadays its economy is based on shipping and manufacturing.

Republic of Massachusetts Bay (MB)
Boston
The state, and its capital Boston, have been the economic engine of New England since they were founded. It broke away from English rule in a violent revolution in the late 1700s. Something about the tea.

Confederation of Muscoguia (MU)
Toquebache (near Tallassee, AL)
Of the four southern Indian states, Muscoguia was the most aggressively expansionist. In the early 18th century, Muscogui warriors conquered most of Spanish East Florida, where they split off to form the Seminol people. In the 19th century Muscoguia positioned itself as a power broker, helping to create a balance between English, French, and Spanish influence in the region.

Dominion of Newfoundland (NF)
St. John's
Newfoundland is considered England's oldest colony, the English presence dating to the late sixteenth century. It remained loyal through the years and transitioned peacefully into a self-governing dominion. It is known for the peculiarities in its language and culture, which developed from its isolation and from its mixture of English and Irish ways.

Free State of New Hampshire (NH)
Falmouth (Portland, ME)
The state dates to the division of the original Maine colony into New Hampshire and New Somersetshire. New Somersetshire failed, but it was re-absorbed into New Hampshire rather than handed over to Massachusetts. New Hampshire then continued to expand northward, becoming by far the largest state in New England and the one with the largest proportion of non-Yankees.

Republic of New Netherland (NN)
New Amsterdam (NYC - same as the confederal capital)
NN was one of the original core states of the ASB. Its capital New Amsterdam has become one of the world's great cities. Elsewhere on its territory, which stretches from Oswego to western Long Island and from the Adirondacks to the east bank of the Delaware, its population of Dutch settlers has been augmented by many English, Scottish, French, German, Mohawk, and Lenape people, along with more recent immigrants from Europe and the Caribbean.

Province of New Scotland (NS)
Port Royal
This was Scotland's only successful American colony. For two hundred years, close allies Scotland and France allowed their two colonies, New Scotland and Acadia, to overlap and coexist on the same territory. Clear borders came as both colonies took steps toward self-government. New Scotland speaks both Scots and Gaelic with significant French and Yankee minorities.

State of Ohio (OH)
Pekoui (Piqua, OH)
Ohio is the Land Between, a place where for centuries multiple interests competed for control, ultimately having no choice but to work together. Ohioans consider their state the glue that holds the ASB together, and they are not far off. A local Métis trading elite in the late 18th century built the state's major institutions and engineered the cooperation of Ohio's many neighbors. Securing lasting peace and order in Ohio was in fact one of the main reasons that the ASB became a permanent alliance and then a government.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (PN)
Philadelphia
Penn's colony has had a tremendous influence on the ASB despite its small size. It represented the middle point of English colonial civilization, a balance between the taciturn New Englanders and the plantation culture of the South. The large, prosperous population of Pennamites poured westward and helped develop the states of the Great Lakes and Ohio regions into what they are today. And Pennsylvania's tradition of peaceful coexistence with its Indian neighbors helped to temper the land hunger of the Yankees and Virginians.

Province of Plymouth (PL)
Plymouth
Plymouth is New England's oldest state, dating to the Pilgrim Fathers of the early seventeenth century. Like its neighbors, Rhode Island and Lower Connecticut, Plymouth declared independence but soon returned to the Loyalist fold, deciding that limited monarchy was more tolerable than alliance with the overbearing Massachusetts Bay.

State of Poutaxia (PX)
Wilkspar (Wilkes-Barre, PA)
Poutaxia (pronounced "Putaksha") is named for the Delaware River, also called the Poutaxat. In colonial days it was home to a diverse population and overlapping imperial claims. Congress worked with locals to form a state government. Today it is known as an economically struggling mountain state with a rich, varied culture.

Province of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (RI)
Newport
Founded by freethinkers fleeing the strict Puritan rule in the other parts of New England, Rhode Island has always had a fiercely independent streak. Dominion membership was seen as a way to resist encroachment by its neighbors, and Rhode Island's feisty nature helped keep the Dominion from becoming too centralized or oppressive.

Saint John's Island (SJ)
La-Joye (Charlottetown, PE)
The island is part of the Acadia region and was shared for many years by East Acadia and New Scotland. An influx of New England Yankees helped bring it out of the orbit of those two states to become a state of its own.

Collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon (SP)
Saint-Pierre
Norman, Breton, and Basque fishermen have used the tiny islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon since the Grand Banks fishery was first discovered. After France lost its other colonies, the islands became its last colonial toehold in ASB territory. And while it is a full-fledged state of the ASB, it has not completely cut links with France. The state is the confederation's smallest by population.

Province of Saybrook (SB)
Saybrook
Named for its original financiers, Lords Saye and Brooke, Saybrook had hard times early on and had to sell much of its land to Connecticut, including its claims to western land. Saybrook developed into a society rather different from its neighbors that included a large Indian population, a prominent landowning gentry, and close ties to the Crown. It was the only New England state to vote against Independence, and it remains a proud member of the Dominion of New England.

Seminol Republic (SE)
Calusahachi (near Ft. Myers, FL)
Seminol descends from an Indian chiefdom that has absorbed many Spanish, English Carolian, and Caribbean elements. Spain claimed Seminol as a protectorate but never colonized it directly. The hereditary chiefdom was overthrown in a revolution in the mid-19th century.

State of Turks and Caicos (TC)
Cockburn Town
Bermudans colonized Turks and Caicos to harvest salt, and the islands remained a Bermudan dependency for more than three hundred years. A corruption scandal in the 2010s led to popular demands for reform, which quickly became a movement for statehood. The ASB's "last colony" finally became a state in May of 2019.

Free State of Upper Connecticut (UC)
Champion (Painesville, OH)
UC was an audacious project by (Lower) Connecticut to make good on its land claims in the west. Its citizens began to grow suspicious of Lower Connecticut's government when it restored a Loyalist government; a few years later, it became a separate state and rejected all offers to join up with its larger neighbors. Upper Connecticuters like to think of themselves as the scrappy underdog of the ASB, struggling mightily against all odds and despite their state's small size.

The Upper Country (the Pays-d'en-Haut) (PH)
Detroit
The Pays-d'en-Haut began as a network of allied tribes and villages under the leadership of French officials. It is the ASB's largest state and contains many different cultures; alongside the predominant French and Ashininaabe are a great variety of peoples scattered among the state's countless bays and islands.

Province of Upper Louisiana (HL)
Saint-Louis
HL and Illinois were a single colony in the 17th century. In the 18th, as Illinois evolved into a semi-independent Mixed society, the French founded new settlements on the west side of the Mississippi River that could function as more directly controlled colonies. Settled by Creole people, the state developed into a northern extension of Louisianan society.

Commonwealth of Upper Virginia (UV)
Brynston (Lexington, KY)
This territory was occupied and settled by Virginians in the late eighteenth century It was split off as its own state in 1850. Upper Virginia was the birthplace of a distinct English Pioneer culture that greatly influenced the surrounding regions. Today it is most famous for its distinct varieties of horses and whiskey.

Vermont Republic (VM)
Capital rotates every 20 years; currently Bennington
Vermont was founded by hardscrabble Yankee farmers and mountaineers who refused to give up their land in the face of disputes with New Netherland. It has found itself often at the forefront of ASB politics despite its small size.

Province of the Vineyards (VY)
Edgar Town
The little islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket were first colonized as a feudal manor. They moved from proprietary rule toward responsible civil government in the late eighteenth century. They are part of the Dominion of New England and are home to a peculiar take on Yankee culture and dialect.

State of Watauga (WA)
Springdon (Greeneville, TN)
English-speaking settlers from Carolina founded the settlements in the Watauga valley in the later eighteenth century without official royal support. When Virginia and other states began to declare their independence from England, the Watauga settlers lost no time in creating their own state government. Its history and culture are closely tied up with Upper Virginia, and the two states have a long-running debate on the topic of whiskey styles.

State of West Acadia (AO)
Le Coude (Moncton, NB)
The largest state of Acadia and the last part to be heavily colonized, West Acadia was for a long time a wild no-man's-land shared by France and Scotland. A class of Anglophone Scottish merchants led the way on developing the area economically, though a majority of the population is Franco-Acadian. The state also has a significant population of Mi'kmaq and other Indian groups.

Republic of West Dominica (DO)
Port-au-Prince
The French-speaking part of Dominica has had very close links with Louisiana since colonial days. It famously cast off White rule in a successful slave rebellion, but post-revolutionary France managed to keep it from severing all ties with the colonizing country. This free Black republic's membership in the ASB greatly affected racial dynamics during the 19th and 20th centuries.

State of West Florida (FO)
Pensacola
A hotly disputed region in the past, the state's history has connections to France, Spain, and England. Today it is almost perfectly trilingual.