Western Sahara

A disputed territory with a history of unrest and conflicts, this sparsely populated region is an ideal place for various villain or superhuman terrorist groups to operate largely unchecked. With a barren, difficult landscape and little population away from the coastal fishing communities, there isn’t much to stop groups like SHADOW or various superhumanbacked criminal syndicates from using the area for weapons development, bio-weapons testing, human trafficking, and other crimes. As the local Sahrawi tribes are largely nomadic and often at odds with the Moroccan government that claims to officially control the region, locals are at times captured by such groups for test subjects and labor. Often ethnic or other minorities are targeted, and it is from one such group the region gets its sole current active superhero, Kahina.
A member of the dark-skinned Haratin people, Kahina was created by a criminal syndicate trying to augment and refine The DNAscent human augmentation process. Many of Kahina’s people had been killed being subjected to these tests by the time she gained her powers and used them to destroy her captors. Kahina has since become the unofficial protector of the region, focusing on stopping human rights abuses, championing the civil rights of the Haratin and other minorities, and shutting down various criminal operations which prey on the people in the region. In 2013 she worked with members of the Freedom League on a case that brought members of that famed super team to the region, but she rejected their offer of membership in favor of remaining to protect her people and home.