Absaroka

Summary

Absaroka was a nation within the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains region of North America, created as a part of the Balkanization of The United States, formed by the Absaroka Bloc in the Symposium on Secession. It neighbored Canada (and later Alberta) to the north, Superior to the east, Illinois to the southeast, Cascadia to the west, Deseret to the southwest, and Texas to the south.

Absaroka was a federation of five states, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, and Nebraska.

Absaroka eventually dissolved due to an inability to kickstart the region's economy. Major buyouts by larger neighbors (including the acquisition of northern Nebraska by Superior, the mountainous west of Montana by Cascadia, and the remainder of Montana by Alberta) also contributed to a loss of trust in the state, as citizens were simply counting down the days until their region was sold off to a larger regional power.

Absaroka was incredibly rural, and though it was agriculturally rich on a level comparable to Superior, there was barely any industrial core to speak of to support the agriculture, with the nation's only major cities being Denver, Omaha (until the sale of Nebraska), and Kansas City, all of which were separated by vast, largely undeveloped land.