Alaska

Alaska is the former 49th state of the United States of America, currently considered it's own sovereign nation following the complete collapse of the US Government and dissolution of the Union after Pik's botched campaign to have the Blue-Footed Booby replace the Bald Eagle as the national bird. Following the New Civil War, its capital, Juneau, was obliterated in a nuclear strike, and the remnants of Alaskan civilization have taken shelter in the underground city of Cthonia, a formerly secret society ruled by a cabal of eldritch entity-worshipping cultists.

The true nature of the nation of Alaska remains unclear. Though many consider it to be nothing more than a mostly-rural landmass in the far northwest of North America, its inhabitants speak of it as a living creature or being, often with the reverence one would give a God. Quat has a mysterious connection to the region, haunted in their dreams and day to day life by a sinister feline entity only they can see that calls itself 'Alaska' with the image of the nation imprinted on its shirt. Quat says that though it appears to be trying to teach them something in its various appearances, it also seems to have a strange grudge against them that they do not understand, and it refuses to elaborate on.

As of Arc 13, "Pik Gets Trapped In A Taco Bell Bathroom" many speculate there is some sort of romantic tension between Quat and this strange Alaskan apparition, but this has yet to be confirmed.