"And what is this project, Madame Chairman?" Miles Lanier asked with a touch of exaggerated courtesy. Aneki cleared his throat and touched a control, transforming the wall-screen into a map of North America, with a patchwork of nations picked out in different colors. There were the United Canadian and American States and the Confederate American states in blue and gray, the two nations dividing the eastern half of the North American continent between them. The purple of the Republic of Quebec showed in the upper corner. The red of the Native American Nations covered most of the western half, save for the gold of California Free State, the green of the elven nation of Tir Taimgire, and the small blue island in the midst of the red of NAN that was the Seattle metroplex.