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}}'''Osoyoos''', also known as the '''Osoyoos movement''', the '''Hivemind''', the '''Osoyoos Grand Fleet''' or sometimes the '''Radical conservatives''' were a reactionary political faction and movement in [[Cascadia]] that existed between August and October 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, quickly obtaining political prominence in Cascadian politics, acting as a third position challenging the traditional of the Cascadian Populist Era, namely the Social Democrats and the Populists. In the August 2023 presidential election, Osoyoos-aligned PhantomXYZ won the most first-preference votes, although lost to the incumbent center-left president EmpressCorgo. The Osoyoos political machine 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. Due to the tied election, the result was to be decided by a contingent election in the House of Representatives, however before the contingent election was to be held, a majority of Osoyoos's figures left the nation, and deleted their towns, and admitted their plan to plunder the national treasury if elected to power. 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. | }}'''Osoyoos''', also known as the '''Osoyoos movement''', the '''Hivemind''', the '''Osoyoos Grand Fleet''' or sometimes the '''Radical conservatives''' were a reactionary political faction and movement in [[Cascadia]] that existed between August and October 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, quickly obtaining political prominence in Cascadian politics, acting as a third position challenging the traditional of the Cascadian Populist Era, namely the Social Democrats and the Populists. In the August 2023 presidential election, Osoyoos-aligned [[PhantomXYZ]] won the most first-preference votes, although lost to the incumbent center-left president EmpressCorgo. The Osoyoos political machine 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. Due to the tied election, the result was to be decided by a contingent election in the House of Representatives, however before the contingent election was to be held, a majority of Osoyoos's figures left the nation, and deleted their towns, and admitted their plan to plunder the national treasury if elected to power. 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 == | == Foundation and History Pre-September Elections == | ||
=== Beginning and Political Emergence === | |||
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. | 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". | 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 unpopular 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". | ||
Early in their political history, there was a controversy that started surrounding their discord server they brung along with them when they joined EarthMC, named "Town of Morioh" at the time. The server had a few NSFW channels inside. The real issue outsiders took with this, however, was the lack of security surrounding them. The only security to keep possible minors from viewing the content inside was Discord's official protection, which only verifies that the user had set their account's age to over 18, something that is a cake walk to forge, alongside a "minor" role that the leaders would place on anyone they got wind of was a minor. The problem with both of these is that they did not prevent someone from lying about their age whatsoever, and as a result other Cascadians took issue. This culminated in a group chat argument between Osoyans and members of the Corgo Administration, where while Osoyans defended the security levels behind the NSFW channels, they eventually surrendered and deleted them that night. Regardless, this controversy would extend throughout the rest of their time in Cascadia and even after their secession, particularly with Frontiersmen trashing on Osoyoos for it. | Early in their political history, there was a controversy that started surrounding their discord server they brung along with them when they joined EarthMC, named "Town of Morioh" at the time. The server had a few NSFW channels inside. The real issue outsiders took with this, however, was the lack of security surrounding them. The only security to keep possible minors from viewing the content inside was Discord's official protection, which only verifies that the user had set their account's age to over 18, something that is a cake walk to forge, alongside a "minor" role that the leaders would place on anyone they got wind of was a minor. The problem with both of these is that they did not prevent someone from lying about their age whatsoever, and as a result other Cascadians took issue. This culminated in a group chat argument between Osoyans and members of the Corgo Administration, where while Osoyans defended the security levels behind the NSFW channels, they eventually surrendered and deleted them that night. Regardless, this controversy would extend throughout the rest of their time in Cascadia and even after their secession, particularly with Frontiersmen trashing on Osoyoos for it. | ||
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 [[ | === August Elections and Term === | ||
After this, Osoyoos would make their entrance to Cascadian politics in the August 2023 Elections. This election cycle was very unique, as in a total of 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 and get the most first-preference votes, however was beat out by incumbent Social Democrat EmpressCorgo. This was extremely unexpected to the rest of Cascadia, as it was predicted that PhantomXYZ would actually be one of the worst performing candidates in the election, due to being considered by many to be inactive. | |||
Throughout the August 2023 term, Osoyoos would focus on the RMB, as well as growing their faction outside of the original friend group. It was during this time that they gained extra members, including xHydre, Orbit2510, and YoOscar. They also grew closer with the Frontier faction, often spending time together in voice chats on the Frontier discord. Much of the term was marked by tensions with the RMB, the unpopular Treaty of Walterston, and Project Nation Shop. As a result, a large portion of the August term was relatively uneventful and quiet, however political stability still had declined since before the botched RMF buyout. | |||
== Late History and Secession == | == Late History and Secession == | ||
=== September Election === | |||
Unlike the August Elections, Osoyoos was able to put up their own presidential candidates this election, so as a result they put up Flatvent_One as their candidate. They also put up more representative candidates, most of which won, giving them decent portion of the seats in the House of Representatives. However, Flatvent_One would go on to lose the election to EmpressCorgo a second time, in a similar manner to the last election cycle, with Flatvent having the most first-preference votes, then being beat out by EmpressCorgo's final-preference votes, much of which was from the Frontier Faction, who had become wary of Osoyoos by this point. The silver lining for Osoyoos though is that two of them got to be in Corgo's cabinet, with Flatvent_One as the Secretary of Home Affairs, | |||
== Ideology & Organization == | == Ideology & Organization == | ||
Revision as of 00:31, 23 July 2025
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.
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Osoyoos, also known as the Osoyoos movement, the Hivemind, the Osoyoos Grand Fleet or sometimes the Radical conservatives were a reactionary political faction and movement in Cascadia that existed between August and October 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, quickly obtaining political prominence in Cascadian politics, acting as a third position challenging the traditional of the Cascadian Populist Era, namely the Social Democrats and the Populists. In the August 2023 presidential election, Osoyoos-aligned PhantomXYZ won the most first-preference votes, although lost to the incumbent center-left president EmpressCorgo. The Osoyoos political machine 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. Due to the tied election, the result was to be decided by a contingent election in the House of Representatives, however before the contingent election was to be held, a majority of Osoyoos's figures left the nation, and deleted their towns, and admitted their plan to plunder the national treasury if elected to power. 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
Beginning and Political Emergence
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 unpopular 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".
Early in their political history, there was a controversy that started surrounding their discord server they brung along with them when they joined EarthMC, named "Town of Morioh" at the time. The server had a few NSFW channels inside. The real issue outsiders took with this, however, was the lack of security surrounding them. The only security to keep possible minors from viewing the content inside was Discord's official protection, which only verifies that the user had set their account's age to over 18, something that is a cake walk to forge, alongside a "minor" role that the leaders would place on anyone they got wind of was a minor. The problem with both of these is that they did not prevent someone from lying about their age whatsoever, and as a result other Cascadians took issue. This culminated in a group chat argument between Osoyans and members of the Corgo Administration, where while Osoyans defended the security levels behind the NSFW channels, they eventually surrendered and deleted them that night. Regardless, this controversy would extend throughout the rest of their time in Cascadia and even after their secession, particularly with Frontiersmen trashing on Osoyoos for it.
August Elections and Term
After this, Osoyoos would make their entrance to Cascadian politics in the August 2023 Elections. This election cycle was very unique, as in a total of 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 and get the most first-preference votes, however was beat out by incumbent Social Democrat EmpressCorgo. This was extremely unexpected to the rest of Cascadia, as it was predicted that PhantomXYZ would actually be one of the worst performing candidates in the election, due to being considered by many to be inactive.
Throughout the August 2023 term, Osoyoos would focus on the RMB, as well as growing their faction outside of the original friend group. It was during this time that they gained extra members, including xHydre, Orbit2510, and YoOscar. They also grew closer with the Frontier faction, often spending time together in voice chats on the Frontier discord. Much of the term was marked by tensions with the RMB, the unpopular Treaty of Walterston, and Project Nation Shop. As a result, a large portion of the August term was relatively uneventful and quiet, however political stability still had declined since before the botched RMF buyout.
Late History and Secession
September Election
Unlike the August Elections, Osoyoos was able to put up their own presidential candidates this election, so as a result they put up Flatvent_One as their candidate. They also put up more representative candidates, most of which won, giving them decent portion of the seats in the House of Representatives. However, Flatvent_One would go on to lose the election to EmpressCorgo a second time, in a similar manner to the last election cycle, with Flatvent having the most first-preference votes, then being beat out by EmpressCorgo's final-preference votes, much of which was from the Frontier Faction, who had become wary of Osoyoos by this point. The silver lining for Osoyoos though is that two of them got to be in Corgo's cabinet, with Flatvent_One as the Secretary of Home Affairs,
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 the Social Democrat and Frontier factions, 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 faction, 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, Orbit2510 and Nephi_UwU_oWo earlier on.
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. However 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.
Christian Nationalist Faction
A section of Osoyoos, nearly all of which residents in the now-defunct town of Mt. Constantinople were devout Orthodox Christians. As a result, these people, mainly Thither138 and Ayashii, would promote a christian take on the Osoyan Ideology, mainly to promote Orthodox Christianity within Cascadia. However, due to the fact that enforcing theocratic principles is both unconstitutional and impractical in the settings of Cascadia and Minecraft, this would lead to very little in terms of actual difference of policy.