Subject: Also, speaking of conquering the world...
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Posted on: 2016-11-06 17:34:00 UTC
The Cascadian Protectorate has historical precedent; it turns out that Cascadia is kind of good at conquering the world. We're currently doing it with assorted corporate empires - UPS, Costco, Weyerhaeuser, Paccar, Boeing, Microsoft, Amazon, T-Mobile, Starbucks... the list goes on. It wouldn't be terribly nice to turn that ability (and technology base) to warfare - but it also wouldn't be terribly hard. And, depending on how the United States breaks up, we could easily be the only nuclear-armed western successor state.
("Like, you know, an army or something"? That sounds like something Californians would say.)
Ooor, if you want a completely different spin on future history, have Cascadia be another piece of Vikingar! We have so much in common - rugged glacial terrain, terrible weather, chronic vitamin D deficiencies... Seattle traditionally was a very Nordic town, and we're currently very politically compatible. (An independent Cascadia today would rapidly become a very liberal social democracy, in Nordic style.)