Outer Lands (1983: Doomsday)

The "Outer Lands" is a name given to a group of islands off the coast of the former U.S. states of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and of the alliance they have been part of for the past 25 years.

The loose alliance consists of five autonomous political regions: Block Island (formerly part of Rhode Island); Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket (formerly part of Massachusetts); and portions of eastern Long Island (formerly part of New York), as well as the Cape Cod region of Massachusetts.

In 1985, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket set up an alliance they initially titled the Alliance of the Outer Banks, consisting of those two islands plus refugees from nearby Block Island. Shortly afterwards they discovered the existence of survivors on Cape Cod, and in eastern Long Island. Cape Cod joined the alliance in 1987, and Long Island in 1999. The alliance has changed into a United Nations-like organization, with its headquarters in Cape Cod.

Each region governs its own affairs, but sends representatives to the Outer Lands General Assembly, which selects a Secretary-General every two years.

Despite the nearby presence of Canada, Vermont and Aroostook, no one from the Outer Lands has had any contact with neither those nations nor any other nation until March of 2010.