Cascadia Congressional Republic

The Cascadian Congressional Republic, otherwise known as the CCR, the Cascadian Republic or simply Cascadia is a star empire located about 90 light years from the Aegian star system and the Dragon Protectorate. The CCR's territory spans about 20 light years from end to end, making it one of the larger star empires in the galactic domain. The CCR does not have expansionist ambitions; choosing instead to focus on improving the lives of their people and the CCR as a whole. They are not adverse to going to war if necessary though and have had conflicts with other star empires such as Kaledon and won.
The Cascadian homeworld is the planet Cascadia, where they drew their namesake from. Cascadia itself is a veritable paradise planet; a rare class of planet that is perfect in almost every way and the CCR aim to keep it that way. While they colonize dozens of planets in their star domain, Cascadia itself remains the jewel of the empire with enormous amounts of resources spent defending it from any potential attacks. The CCR believes the planet to be a gift of the Gods themselves. Although it is their homeworld, travel to Cascadia is restricted to those born there and those who work to maintain the unspeakably beautiful ecosystem. The planet was actually colonized second by the CCR, which opted to choose the less desirable planet Claris as their base. Claris isn't a bad planet by any means but compared to Cascadia, it doesn't compare.
The CCR is a very highly technologically advanced society. They place a high emphasis on science and technological research. While their fleets may not be as massive as Dragonia or Kaledon, their technology not only bridges the gap between the relative powers but surpasses them in many aspects. CCR ships have energy weapons, shields, advanced reactors and other systems that make even their smaller ships a threat to larger ships. This technological advantage extends to all forms of the CCR, including their entire military apparatus.
One of the most curious things about the CCR is that they are actually an offshoot from the Divine Dragonian Empire. In the year 2375 large amounts of Dragonians began to leave the homeworld after the Dragonian High Command started to consolidate their power and exert even more influence than they already were over the lives of Dragonians. Many acedemics, scholars, works and other general citizens who were disgusted with the erosion of personal liberties and the more tightened grip the Empire was securing on the people left on massive colonization flotillas funded by private companies and set out to chart their own path in the galaxy. Upon setting up on Cascadia some 4 years later, the people formed a Congressional Republic where the voices of all provinces were heard, not just the military. The CCR is formed upon the best tenants of the Dragonian Constitution and Charters with an emphasis on personal liberty and responsibility. The CCR citizenry possess a staggering amount of personal weapons making it easy for the CCR to draw up additional manpower for conflicts however this has never proven to be needed as the all volunteer CCR military has no shortage of recruits. This is on display for all to see during the start of the Circum-Arania War with the Dragon Protectorate. There were lines crossing entire cities of citizens volunteering to join the military to defend their republic. 
The most funded portion of the military is the CCRN, or the Cascadian Congressional Republic Navy.
Although the CCR have made a point to have no contact with Dragonia as they know that they will try to re-integrate them into the empire or to subjugate them for their technological advances they have come in contact with them on several occasions. They have captured a number of Dragonian ships and have the crew of said ships almost overwhelmingly have chosen to serve the CCR over Dragonia, which led the CCR to believe that the Dragonian Unity isn't as strong as they like to believe.
The CCR was very interested in the Dragonian Civil War and they actually see the AcDragonians as a branch off of them on some level even though they are completely different nations with different customs. The CCR did eventually make official contact with AcDragonia and they did become trading partners. The CCR was actually who provided AcDragonia with some of the technology and knowledge required to begin their advanced weapons program which is producing things like the Asteroid Destroyer and their in development man portable energy rifle.
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