High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Foundry, according to Joel Garreau, is a coherent nation made up of the eastern seaboard of the United States except New England, though including the Connecticut suburbs of New York City, along with the Great Lakes region (including the Southern parts of the Canadian province of Ontario which border the lakes) except for the Lake Superior shoreline, plus the Washington, D.C. suburbs of Virginia, and roughly the northern half of West Virginia, including both of the state's panhandles.