Kotzebue

Kotzebue, officially the Republic of Kotzebue, is a federation of settlements based around the city of Kotzebue, located on a gravel spit at the end of the Baldwin Peninsula in the Kotzebue Sound, north of the Arctic Circle in the former Northwest Arctic Borough of Alaska.

The majority of the federation's population is Iñupiat, with a small white American minority. Despite being named Kotzebue, the republic also has the villages of Buckland, Deering, Kiana, Noorvik and Selawik under its control, each having their own government but still being subject to the federal government in Kotzebue. The slow crawl to centralization towards Kotzebue has been called out by representatives from the outside villages, with many people in high positions in government advocating for a proposal to divide the country into "The City", where the central government would be located, and "The Outer Areas", which would have no autonomy and would be directly ruled from Kotzebue.

The Disaster gave slight radiation poisoning to many people in Kotzebue; said people were sent to "form a new settlement" outside the borders of the federation, but everyone eventually died, giving the city government the incentive to start incorporating surrounding villages. It has tried numerous times to absorb Ambler, Kivalina, Kobuk and Shungnak, but they prefer to stay far, far away from Kotzebue and sever all relations with them. There are also plans set in motion to make Point Hope join as the 7th settlement of the Republic, but this has been slowed down due to the difficulty of communication with the village.