Alaska
The Last Frontier
You would imagine a place called the United States of America would be composed of states, and that they would be in the Americas. And you would be mostly correct. The primary first-level political division in the States is, in fact, the State. There are fifty of them bound into a Union. They are somewhat more autonomous than our provinces, which has been recently demonstrated in their distinct voting laws and gun laws. That is partly why an American will say that they are from Houston, Texas rather than Houston, U.S.A., while at the same time drawing a blank if you say you are from Toronto, Ontario. In addition to the fifty states, there is the District of Columbia, which is not autonomous and is administered by the feds. Moving down the line, we have the permanently inhabited U.S. Territories - Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean, and American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam in the Pacific. They all have the right to pay taxes but not to be full citizens or vote for the president. Interestingly, tea is produced in the Caribbean but Guam and the Marianas are more about coffee. American Samoa produces a kind of tea but it is mainly herbal and used for such disorders as pregnancy. But I digress.
Moving further down the food chain we have the minor outlying islands. These are Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and Wake Atoll in the Pacific, as well as Navassa Island in the Caribbean. These are all to a large degree uninhabited and inacessible.
After the uninhabited islands, oddly, we have the "Indian Reservations" (sic), such as the Navajo Nation.
Further down the list we find the various military bases scattered throughout the world, and lastly, embassies and consulates.
So this is all an overly complicated way of saying we're goin' north, to Alaska.