The Free State of Appalachia
Capital Boone
Holds the high ground, the headwaters, the ski slopes and all of the moonshine.
Holds Asheville · Boone · Franklin · Murphy · Mount Mitchell · Grandfather Mountain
| Lumber | |
|---|---|
| Metals | |
| Food | |
| Military | |
| Money | |
| Industry |
The Partition of North Carolina
North Carolina has fallen. Choose your faction.
The nations
The Partition of North Carolina
Tap a nation on the map or below to see its flag and how it stacks up.
North Carolina has fallen. Choose your faction.
The Federation of Furniture
Capital High Point
Manufactures the furniture and defends its Chest of Drawers, then goes racing on Sundays.
Holds Winston-Salem · Greensboro · High Point · Hickory · North Wilkesboro
| Lumber | |
|---|---|
| Metals | |
| Food | |
| Military | |
| Money | |
| Industry |
The 85-40 Principality
Capital Charlotte and Raleigh (disputed)
Has the money and two capitals that won’t speak. High on concrete, low on farms.
Holds Charlotte · Raleigh · Durham · Concord · Salisbury · Asheboro
| Lumber | |
|---|---|
| Metals | |
| Food | |
| Military | |
| Money | |
| Industry |
The Duchy of the Back Nine
Capital Pinehurst
Rich, retired and neutral, as long as nobody walks on the greens.
Holds Pinehurst · Southern Pines · Rockingham · Troy
| Lumber | |
|---|---|
| Metals | |
| Food | |
| Military | |
| Money | |
| Industry |
The MRE Monarchy
Capital Fayetteville
Has the heavy artillery but doesn’t possess a monopoly on small arms. Pending bill to name the capital Fayettenam.
Holds Fayetteville · Fort Bragg · Jacksonville · Camp Lejeune · Havelock
| Lumber | |
|---|---|
| Metals | |
| Food | |
| Military | |
| Money | |
| Industry |
The Dominion of the Whole Hog
Capital Greenville
Holds the farms, the pits and the vinegar, which may be all it takes. Exports plenty of tobacco.
Holds Greenville · Rocky Mount · Wilson · Goldsboro · Kinston · Lumberton
| Lumber | |
|---|---|
| Metals | |
| Food | |
| Military | |
| Money | |
| Industry |
The Sandbar Republic
Capital Morehead City
Exclusive access to the ocean and bountiful seafood. Rugged seafarers from Harkers Island won’t be messed with.
Holds Wilmington · Morehead City · Elizabeth City · Manteo · Cape Hatteras · Southport
| Lumber | |
|---|---|
| Metals | |
| Food | |
| Military | |
| Money | |
| Industry |
The People's Republic of Chapel Hill
Capital Chapel Hill
Two towns, one university and a strongly worded opinion about both.
Holds Chapel Hill · Carrboro
| Lumber | |
|---|---|
| Metals | |
| Food | |
| Military | |
| Money | |
| Industry | |
| Yard Signs |
C.A.R.Y.
Capital Cary
The Containment Area for Relocated Yankees: rude, with plenty of HOA board presidents. Still looking for a decent bagel.
Holds Cary · Apex · Holly Springs · Lake Norman
| Lumber | |
|---|---|
| Metals | |
| Food | |
| Military | |
| Money | |
| Industry |
About this map
A joke, drawn seriously. North Carolina splits into nine nations along its oldest stereotypes: the mountains, the furniture towns of the Piedmont, the two big cities and the interstates between them, golf country, the military bases, the farms of the east, the coast, Chapel Hill and Cary. The names, the capitals and every rating on the cards are mine. They’re opinion, not data.
I didn’t draw the borders by hand. Each nation spreads out from its towns across the real state, slowed by hills and stopped by water, until it meets a neighbor, so most frontiers settle where real ones do: on the Catawba, the Yadkin–Pee Dee, the Haw, the Deep, the Neuse and the Chowan1, and along the foot of the Blue Ridge, from elevation every five miles2. The hills on the map are drawn from that elevation too.