Quadrant 12
Major Cities: BosWash and Northpoint
Important Locations: Salt Flats Solar Farms, Great Lakes Industrial Megaplex, and the Nuuk Geothermal Power Plant
BosWash The Megalopolis stretching from the old Capital of the USA to Boston, now grown into and governed as a single monumental city. As the ice caps melted, BosWash was spared the fate of many flooded Southern states, especially Florida, by a patchwork megastructure of levees, seawalls, and pumps. The relative safety of this region drove much of its growth.
Northpoint At the very tip of Axel Heiberg Island, the city of Northpoint has grown to service the industry of trans-Arctic naval shipping, which has exploded in the last century.
Politics The Primary civilian authority in Quadrant 12 is the North Atlantic Reclamation Authority, on paper a technocratic democracy, the truth is the corporations of NARA hold immense power over politics. They, as well as all other major power blocs on Earth, are signatories of the Foundation Charter, meaning so long as the Gorgon crisis is ongoing they have ceded authority over security and intelligence to the Foundation.