Cascadia

The most common Cascadian flag, made by devetec

### Description

Welcome to Cascadia you must have 1 City in the North America to join (preferably in the Western part of North America)

## **Overview**

Cascadia is a post-drewsade alliance based in the western part of North America. Cascadia is known for being generally neutral, fighting Sticklandia, and having a free and fair democratic process.

The alliance achieved North American hegemony on June 12th, 2022 by owning every NA top city. Logs show the Cascadia members Deci, William Tell, Baxter49, Brownie, da ork, Sir Nils Olav, Jukebox, I don't know, and Dylan held each city on this date.

## **Early History**

Western Nova was created by Brownie on the 17th of July, 2020. It was made to rival Sticklandia's influence in Western America and was used for an exploit where players could receive multiple alliance rewards in a day by swapping alliances. Nova, Nova America, and Western Nova used this to their advantage. This exploit, as well as the protection on small alliances like Sticklandia, were removed in updates. Accordingly, the existence of Western Nova began to be questioned by Nova America members. Brownie's political career in the Nova American Democracy failed to gain traction and so he decided not to rejoin them.

A power-play was made to form a new alliance, independent of Nova, in Western America. Brownie and Sticklandia's leadership began discussing plans for a merger. There was one notable holdout who originally suggested the merger but would famously back out. This was FamousPlan, also known as iamCheems (not that one). This became a triple-merger when a new alliance popped up called True North, and their leadership was brought to the table.

SvenBiscuit, who had been the leader of Sticklandia at the time, made a discord server for the new alliance on August 4th, 2020. After a brief debate the members decided to name the new alliance Cascadia after a bioregion in the Pacific North-West that stretches from Alaska to northern California. Various parodies of the Cascadian Flag, which feature a prominent Douglas Fir tree, would be used to symbolize the alliance.

After deciding to remain neutral, during the war between The Black Sun and Nova America, Cascadia quietly expanded east and south. Minor skirmishes occurred in California and New Mexico, where TBS members farmed their attack armies. After the Treaty of Redding, a dividing line was set in California and a non-aggression pact was signed, between TBS and Cascadia.

Cascadia had started a few border conflicts/skirmishes with The New California Republic, out of which Cascadia came out victorious and pushed NCR out of Washington and Oregon, eventually the conflict escalated and Cascadia decided to pop two northern borders of NCR, held by Caterr. The Y.S.S.R came to defend NCR along side FamousPlan, who had decided to remain in Sticklandia. Sticklandia would join the coalition and start a counter offensive to bring Cascadia down. This catastrophic event known, as the First Stick War, led to many members leaving and borders were not set up for over a week. Constant conflict with the Sticks, would leave Cascadia preoccupied for a long time. They may have been completely wiped out, but Sticklandia decided to betray and attack the Y.S.S.R and the NCR, which gave enough time to rebuild border armies. An NAP between NCR and Cascadia was also signed.

The Black Sun was destroyed by The Resistance and The Sakura Pact and Cascadia would expand east and south into new lands. An NAP was made between The Sakura Pact and Cascadia which would later, become an alliance, as Cascadia became closely aligned with Sakura's protectorate, The Albion Pact. Their first ally, however, was N.S.T.C, the main rival of The Resistance. This ended up being unnecessary, as The Resistance also offered an alliance, beginning Cascadia's period of neutrality, caught between the three world superpowers.

During World War III, Cascadia moved into empty cities in California, that had been taken from The Resistance by N.S.T.C including Los Angeles and San Diego. To avoid a war with The Resistance, Cascadia signed a territory agreement splitting North America down the Mississippi River.

   A Resistance member made a new alliance called G.U.M.S. in Mexico, which was supposed to belong to Cascadia in the GAWES deal. Cascadia traded Mexico City to the new alliance in exchange for Miami ,but was never given anything. Not wanting to push the issue to war, they left it alone.

On June 7th, 2021, after a period of inactivity, Tom Ganks randomly attacked Mexico City, taking it from The Resistance. The Cascadian leadership attempted to negotiate, but was met with silence. 3 days later The Resistance launched a massive invasion, attempting to wipe Cascadia out of the game. After 3 days of fighting, a ceasefire was called with Cascadia, proving themselves a hard tree to burn.

## **Period of Dormancy**

A second war with The Resistance began in September 2021, starting with the invasion of New York by Nkiru. Eventually, The Resistance and the Sakura Pact turned the tide and Nkiru was destroyed. Meanwhile Cascadia was pushed out of their last strongholds in Texas and the Midwest. A final stand was made in California, however the 10 members tournament allowed Eorlingas230 to destroy all remaining defenses in San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Kansas City, amassing millions of resources in profits from the update, while the Cascadians lost everything.

The alliance went quiet, and most members left for NSTC. Baxter49 founded BC Ferries, as a temporary 10 member alliance to gain treasury rewards, and began playing rivalries. Key members like SvenBiscuit, rubino77, and da ork also joined. Baxter also began a secret intelligence agency, with the ultimate goal of undermining the 501st Legion and destroying Eorlingas.

Eventually BC Ferries merged with The BELIEBers to unify Canada. Several skirmishes occurred with 501st, as well as The Resistance, though in the end, all bad blood between the remaining Cascadians and TR was put to rest, especially after 501st began indiscriminate attacks against both TR and the BELIEBers.

As Eor began to play less and less, the members of the Legion lost their drive. Although the Cascadians did stand against the Legion, it was largely through boredom with the game, and the unbroken will of N.S.T.C that their ending was rather lackluster.

## **Revival**

After rebuilding in the BELIEBers, the Cascadians were grateful for the hospitality shown by TubularTOUCAN and have maintained peaceful relations since departing. Though the separation was painful, the game was finally ready for Cascadia to return.

Baxter49 enlisted the help of his old Albion friend Legassassin1234, who surprisingly actually joined, and bribed Deci into being a new member, with a ton of def%. A few other friends and allies came, as well as the traditional members. The new alliance has so far been successful, as its members have managed to occupy every top city in North America.

This was much easier, due to the quiet nature of the post-501st landscape. Cascadia's past enemies have been preoccupied, and the game in general is stagnating. Sticklandia is still located in Africa far away from Cascadian affairs. The Resistance is losing a war to Roma, and 501st Legion has disbanded.

Unfortunately, exclusion from the dominant United Asia coalition made the revived Cascadia's position uncertain. After a long period of apparent death, however, Cascadia showed the game that trees eventually grow back.

## **10 Member Update**

After the balance changes of August 9th 2022 gave a 50% bonus to daily alliance rewards for all players in 10 member alliances, coupled with a huge increase on territory taxes, Cascadia faced the loss of hundreds of thousands of gold per day to keep up its expansive North American territory, while the players fell behind in resource collection. While N.S.T.C stubbornly maintained their large playerbase, and the Sakura Pact decided to have a civil war, Cascadia followed the example set by the Resistance, Bad Boys Club, and U.E.R, opting to dissolve into several 10 member alliances loosely bound by a common discord server and friendship.

    The alliances were as follows:

* Cascadia still led by Brownie with a territory encompassing Western North America
* The Kingdom of Nkiru led by zmmiz controlling the East Coast of North America
* Sticklandia aka "BELIEBing Sticks" aka 🐟 led by Deci, controlling the top cities of South and Central America
* Good Boys Club led by Baxter49 controlling Italy

## **Decline of the Cascadian Alliances**

Due to a combination of generally declining player activity, as well as Deci leaving South America and somewhat quitting, the Cascadian alliances began losing ground. G.U.M.S. including many former members of the Resistance filled the void in Mexico and South America. At some point, looking for battle medals due to the passivity of the game state, DIYSlinky attacked Nkiru and Cascadia, revealing the weakness and inactivity of both alliances.

Good Boys Club, Terceiro Comando, and Bad Boys Club formed a tenuous coalition, however due to conflicts between Anzee the gamer and Oi several wars were fought between GBC and TC. Eventually, BBC disbanded the coalition and attacked both its former partners. Terceiro Comando and the weakened Nkiru merged to become "The Confederacy" as renamed by Athena. This did not improve the situation, because of the Great North American Retard War, which broke out over the East Coast. Anzee attacked G.U.M.S. and P.R.D. intervened to both help their TR friends, as well as try to establish their own territory on the east coast of America. Cascadia lost California to BBC and Good Boys Club was also too preoccupied by their opposite alliance to help in this conflict. In February 2023, an official C.S.I.S. operation was organized hoping to improve the perilous situation of the Cascadian alliances.

Due to inactivity, Good Boys Club merged with Bad Boys Club and briefly held down Europe. Initially Terceiro Comando was meant to join but anzee the gamer backed out. During the Lubec coup many players left and wars were started against most major alliances. Europe was eventually cleared by ex-Resistance and Sakura players.

## Guerrillas

Following the collapse of the Bad Boys Club in Europe in August 2023, Baxter49, Oi, Rubino77, and Dragonblitz returned to Cascadia. After the events of the The Great North American Retard War, the continent had become dominated by U.S.S.A. and G.U.M.S. Cascadia had been wiped down to two glitched cities held by Brownie and was in no position to make a territory. Skirmishes began in the Cascadian heartland with some fighting spilling in South America.

***The Cascadian Guerrillas***
 Sir Nils Olav
 caterr | M.I.A.

A war with G.U.M.S. in September 2023 ended with a return to the status quo. Cascadia had some support from Euro Ascendancy, made from the former Sticklandia alliance and run by DIYSlinky. In November, relations with U.S.S.A. broke down and Cascadia withdrew from North America.

1. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/citieswar/comments/lpwk7v/tr\_and\_cascadian\_agreement\_gawes/
2. ↑ https://maxos0097.wixsite.com/cwnews/post/baxter49-resurrects-cascadia
3. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/citieswar/comments/upwuoe/alliances\_situation\_map\_may\_15\_2022/
4. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/citieswar/comments/uhrp5k/rejoice\_the\_great\_tree\_has\_risen\_once\_again/
5. ↑ https://maxos0097.wixsite.com/cwnews/news-center/channel-b/cascadia-claims-north-american-hegemony
6. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/citieswar/comments/wk1d9h/cities\_war\_updates\_august\_9\_2022\_territory\_tax/
7. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/citieswar/comments/10z7mt8/waltuh/
8. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/citieswar/comments/15lh6rg/i\_dont\_like\_what\_im\_seein\_these\_days/

*Last Updated September 16th, 2022*