Jack of Harts

The Socialist Republic of Juneau was not a founding member of Pacifica. The networks had been ravaged enough that communications with the Lower Forty Eight was spotty at best for several years. But once they found out that their ideological friends in Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco had banded together, they jumped at the opportunity to join. Yes, there were Capitalist Pigs in Vancouver, and Royal Pigs in Hawaii, but they could be dealt with in time. What mattered was that, for once in America, The People’s Collectives were finally beginning to take a true measure of control. Their eventual victory was ensured. So Juneau simply absorbed all of the resources it could collect around it, and sent those who didn’t want to participate in the collective outside their ever-expanding borders. They acquired the entire Juneau Panhandle before the Second Great Depression ended, though found it impossible to expand into the rest of Alaska and imprudent to take any Canadian lands. So they sat back and waited. Their times would come. The socially selected leaders of Juneau had no doubt that their times would come.