Osoyoos (political faction)

This Article is about a former political faction in Cascadia. For the now defunct town, see Osoyoos.

It should be noted that political factions in Cascadia are almost always unofficial, and often informal. While Osoyoos was a coherent political faction, and very centralized, it was not a political party officially in any way.

Osoyoos(Political Faction) was a now defunct political faction in Cascadia that existed between August 9th, 2023 and October 22nd, 2023, dying out when most of their faction seceded in reaction to the results of the national elections that were being revealed just that night. Their ideology followed ultra-nationalism, imperialism, jingoism, and hivemind collectivism. The nature of their ideology is essentially just the Minecraft equivalent to fascism. The faction started from the friend group that settled under the town of the same name, however grew quickly, eventually encompassing around a third of Cascadia's active population, though they'd get more in terms of electoral votes through heavy usage of vote-whipping. They reached their height in October of 2023, where in that month's elections their presidential candidate, Flatvent_One, tied with incumbent EmpressCorgo, with exactly 40 votes each according to final preference votes. Osoyoos left a legacy of causing Cascadia to go into a short but chaotic era in which the nation was extremely politically unstable and toxic, particularly concerning their feuds with the Frontier, another political faction within Cascadia at the time. After their secession, they would go on to form the nation of Chad, who would eventually start the Wagner War just two months later, and some members such as Karn4 would even go on to fight in the Great American War under North_Paso's Texas.

Foundation and History Pre-September Elections

Osoyoos was originally a town owned between a group of friends, founded on July 3rd, 2023. They had a whole discord of around 40-50 members to bring with them, although not all of them would join EarthMC. They were not politically active for their first month of activity, mostly due to having other priorities such as building up their town and colonies. Eventually, they would branch out and form what they'd refer to as "colonies", being towns formed by Osoyans, still connected to the main friend group. These include the towns of, but are not limited to Baroque Works, founded by Flatvent_One, Grande_Furry, founded by Nephi_UwU_oWo, and Mt. Constantinople, founded by Thither138.

This political inactivity changed around the time then Secretary of Defense RealLimpopo stole around 4,500 gold from the nation in a betrayal through a buyout of the Rocky Mountain Federation gone wrong. The Osoyans were incredibly angered by these actions at the time, leading them to urge the then President, EmpressCorgo to take military action through the proposal of founding a siege town called "PoopTown" on Banff's border, though the Corgo Administration opted to instead attempt to negotiate a repayment of the gold stolen. This eventually resulted in the Treaty of Walterston, a treaty to pay back those who donated to Cascadia for the purchase gone wrong at a rate of 50 gold per week. Regardless, Osoyans would continue to urge the Corgo Administration to "Grab them by the Rockies" and take military action on the RMB. Most of the communication between the Corgo Administration and representatives of the Osoyoos faction occurred in a group chat known as "True Based Cascadian Patriots".

After this, Osoyoos would make their entrance to Cascadian politics in the August 2023 Elections. This election cycle was very unique, as in total eight candidates ran for president, the most ever, a record not met until the July 2025 elections. What made this election cycle unique for Osoyoos however is that not a single one of them had been in Cascadia long enough to run for President, including the oldest member, Karn4. As a result, they chose to back candidate PhantomXYZ_, who would then go on to become a front-runner in the election, however was beat out by incumbent EmpressCorgo.

Ideology & Organization

Organization

Osoyoos was very collectivist, and as a result, tended to be more organized than the two other major political factions at the time. They voted in a very unified manner, employing heavy vote whipping from the discord they brought along with them when they originally came to Cascadia, even requiring some members to screen share themselves voting to leadership in order to make sure they voted correctly. As a result, SayerQT remarked about it during revealing the October election results, saying "Shout out to Osoyoos for all voting the same though, made it faster to calculate,". This vote whipping gave them a boost over other factions like the Frontier, who did not do this, at least not at nearly the same scale Osoyoos did. Generally, Karn4 and Flatvent_One were the two main leaders of the party, however Flatvent would be the one to run in Presidential elections. Outside of this, other lower, but still important leaders within the party included Alucart, Thither, and Ayashii[That's not probably not his name, but it's close enough].

Imperialism

Osoyoos was very imperialist, generally supporting the military expansion of Cascadia into an empire. This was particularly shown in their altercations with Jefferson, who was Cascadia's southern neighbor at the time. Osoyans hated it's leader, rocksthunder, and wanted to conquer his nation, although everyone outside of Osoyoos completely rejected this idea, simply suggesting that the status quo be upheld, being a close alliance to Jefferson. Regardless, altercations between Osoyans and Jeffersonians were not uncommon in the later days of Osoyoos, and harassment of rocksthunder in global chat was commonplace among osoyan leadership. Osoyoos also generally supported raising a PvP army to protect Cascadia from hunters, as well as help in war, such as against Jefferson.

Ultranationalism

In combination with imperialism, Osoyoos was very nationalistic, not just for Cascadia, but for their in-group as well.