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Evalina Persons

Evelina Persons is the founder of Milk A Cow! Born in 2001, Evelina is the daughter of Brand and Perry Persons, and grew up in the household of Victoria Kazmarazz. Evelina’s parents both work as servants to Ms. Kazmarazz and have for more than twenty-five years each. A precocious young girl, Evelina took to heart the Cascadian […]

An early Farnsworth device featuring a scene from Alison McGovern's The Martian Adventure

Farnsworth

The Farnsworth is a mass telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. It was created and popularized by Cascadian inventor Philo Farnsworth in 1926. Sometimes referred to simply as the “Farn” or “Farny”, it become the dominant mass-media device in the world in the 1940s and 1950s.

Filthy Lucre Magazine

Filthy Lucre Magazine is a news magazine from Cascadia which focuses on money, making money, maintaining money, and spending money. They are a staunch proponent of free-market capitalism and an idolator of greed. It can be found at: http://filthylucremagazine.com/ Filthy Lucre is a competitor to Big Think Magazine, Marketwire, Censure Praise & Rumour, and Waka-Krangere […]

Nathan Chambers stands at a podium with the Cascadian emblem, addressing the nation.

First Minister

The position of First Minister is the highest position of government within the Independent Sovereignty of Cascadia. The First Minister holds the title of Head of State and Head of Government for the nation-state of Cascadia. The role is elected to serve five-year terms by the popular vote of the people and forms a government […]

Frog and Lily Pad

The Frog and Lily Pad is one of the most famous bars in the city of Pørtland in Cascadia. It is the oldest continuingly-operating bar in Cascadia, having been founded in 1632 and still in operation today. It is rumoured to be the founding location of The Iron Hammer in 1667.

Workers build stone public housing as a woman official oversees the 1890s construction site.

Great Housing Crisis of 1895

In 1895, in the city of Pørtland, a group of building-lessors gathered together and decided to engage in what was termed “The Big Squeeze” in which they would systematically raise rents on their sub-tenants to squeeze from them every conceivable cent. The Big Squeeze resulted in a 400% jump in the unhoused population in the […]

Heaven of Earthly Delights a juliana van ordayle novel by Morena Arshagouni

Heaven of Earthly Delights

Heaven of Earthly Delights is a series of erotic novellas about Juliana van Ordayle. The series is written by novelist Morena Arshagouni and published by the publishing division of Sassy Lass Entertainment. In the books, van Ordayle is a spy for the United States of New England who is pulled between her puritan upbringing, her […]

Independent Sovereignty of Cascadia

The Independent Sovereignty of Cascadia, commonly referred to as Cascadia, is a nation-state in the NW area of North America. Founded upon the idea of open markets, religious liberty, and respect for the environment, Cascadia is one of the most economically powerful and technologically advanced countries in the world. The country is governed by a […]

The Symbol of the Iron Hammer

Iron Hammer

The Iron Hammer is a fabled secret society tasked with the protection of Cascadia against all enemies foreign and domestic. Origins of the Iron Hammer Iron Hammer is said to have its origins at a bar known as the Frog and Lily Pad in Pørtland. A man and woman gathered together in the bar, meeting […]

Middle-aged man with curly hair and headphones speaking into a studio microphone.

Joe Franklin

Reportedly born and raised in the United States of New Spain, Joe Franklin arrived in the Sovereignty of Cascadia sometime in 1999, shortly after which he was hired by Waka-Krangere Radio to host a late night local news broadcast, The Last Word.  Famously, after a particularly slow January news day, Joe dispensed with that night’s […]

Johannes Morgen

Johannes Morgen was a scientist and medical researcher who founded Morgen Genentech in 1977. The son of a Cascadian mother and a German father, Morgen found his way to medicine by way of an early preoccupation with the way that the vital systems of the body work. Morgen’s curiousity led him to start Morgen Genentech […]

Maya men and women in traditional dress gather around a throne in a stone courtyard.

Kingdom of the Maya

The Kingdom of the Maya is a nation-state to the south of the United States of New Spain and to the north of Chorotega and the west of the Miskito Kingdom. In October 2015, the Kingdom was invaded by New Spain, who still occupy the northern third of the Kingdom.

Madeline Gabriel looking at one of her famous buildings

Madeline Gabriel

A famous Cascadian architect and the foremost leader of the Post-Modernist School of architecture.

Morena Arshagouni

Morena Arshagouni is a writer of serialized romance and erotica who came to prominence with the underground success of her Tales of the Green Bar series. Other prominent stories series include: What She Felt When…, Heaven of Earthly Delights, and Dreams of Winter. Her age is a closely guarded secret, but she is thought to have […]

mr darling

Mr Darling is a DJ, signed to the Circa22 Label, and known for his Dark House concept albums and his impromptu concerts. His debut album, Darker Magic, was released in 2012. His second album, A Day in the Death, was an album which envisioned the final 24 hours of the life of Henrietta Jean, one […]

Aerial photograph of dense forests, winding rivers, and Nakoma Mountain in the background.

Nakoma Mountain

A large extinct shield volcano due east of Pørtland, but within the Pørtland Autonomous Government Zone. The land surrounding the mountain is held in trust, one of the largest in the area, and is the location of a number of unsolved mysteries, disappearances, and murders.

Nathan Chambers First Minister of Cascadia - Empire Universe

Nathan Chambers

Current First Minister of the Independent Sovereignty of Cascadia.

Never Before Starring Anna Moreau - Empire Universe

Never Before

A drama series starring Anna Moreau. A high-concept show, the series was based around the character of Nera, who it is revealed has a rare brain disorder that prevents her from feeling any emotions. In the first episode, she undergoes a medical procedure that restores this ability, but something goes wrong and instead of feeling […]

Olivia d’Haviland

Olivia d’Haviland is the current Overborgmeister of Pørtland. She is currently serving the second year of her fifth term in office. Meister d’Haviland is known for her no-nonsense style of discourse, for her eviscerating criticisms of her opponents, and for her sometimes colorful personal life which has put her numerous times on the cover of […]

Once Upon A Time In Adelphia

Once Upon A Time In Adelphia is a drama series starring Anna Moreau. The series featured Anna Moreau playing the character Windwood “Windy” Lincoln. Windy Lincoln was a detective with a troubled past on the trail of the Breadcrumb Killer. The series ran for three seasons in which Lincoln played cat and mouse with the […]

Overborgmeister

The Overborgmeister is the title given to the mayor of the Autonomous Governmental Zone of Pørtland.

Paralux Unlimited

Paralux Unlimited

The Paralux Conglomeration came to life in 1974 as the brainchild of two young physicists tinkering on a side project. In a Pørtland, Cascadia garage Toshe Marinos and Jasper Taylor devised an ingenious method for storing blood without refrigeration. Until 1985, Paralux was run jointly by the two founders who served as Co-Executive Officers. Toshe Marinos took over […]

Paroma

Paroma is an artificial intelligence developed by Paralux Unlimited. Paroma’s name is a portmanteau that stands for “Paralux Operations Matrix”. Paroma is said to serve as essentially the OO (Operations Officer) of the company.

An image from Cascadia Plot 27, where the government of Cascadia is rumoured to hold evidence of alien life

Plot 27

In the skógr near the edge of the Nakoma Mountain Trust, this section of land is rumoured to be the home of proof of extra-terrestrial life held in a secret storage facility by the Cascadian government. Officially, the plot is owned by the Government in a special use trust with access to the plot being […]