- Declined Cascadian Secession, likely due to restrictions on Petroleum Economy
- The Alaskan Secession Act declared Alaska an independent territory of the US, or some kinda legalistic bullshit.
- This allowed the United States Federal Government to bypass domestic oil drilling restrictions
- Washed federal government's hands of rapidly expanding black site complexes.
- Alaska had become the first choice of by the ContinuityOfOperationsPlan, but later the Board of Directors (Alaska) would renege on that agreement in all but name. They housed the government for a short while, but made them into humiliating figureheads. Their Omni-Rail tickets back to Colorado were comped, where that same regime rules as the New American Republic.
- Newly temperate, which has opened up shorelines to marine traffic and inland areas to agriculture
- Frontier fascism puts LAPD to shame
- Major Pacific power, isolationist but not complacent