Osoyoos
This article is in reference to the former city in Cascadia. For the Cascadian former political faction, see Osoyoos (political faction).
Osoyoos was a major city within the heartland of metropolitan Cascadia in mid-to-late 2023 in what is now largely forested King County. The city bordered Seattle to the west and southwest, Vancouver to its west and northwest, Spokane Valley to its east, and Tri Cities to its southeast. At its peak, Osoyoos had an astonishing amount of tall skyscrapers as well as a stunning lake that holds a large amount of biodiversity. It also shared a large chunk of the Cascade Mountains with Seattle where both cities had a residential district. Additionally, Osoyoos owned five colony towns under its name. These towns are: Grande Furry, Baroque Works, Prythian, Vernon, and Ballstown, of which these various "colony towns" contributed to Osoyoos' growth as a economic powerhouse. Osoyoos was run by Mayor KARN4, his co-mayor Flatvent_One, and their large group of highly trusted councilors. Osoyoos was the hub of the far-right Osoyoos political movement that played a substantial role in Cascadian politics in the latter half of 2023. It was abandoned and dissolved following the Osoyan Exodus.
History
Humble Beginnings
Osoyoos was founded on July 7 2023, by KARN4. With his ambitions high, KARN4 had invited his two friends Alucart and Flatvent_One with them being the first citizens of Osoyoos. With only a small hideout in a hill, Osoyoos had built its first tower within its first day of its creation. After some time, Osoyoos had gained an additional amount of Citizens who were fleeing from another server. Shortly thereafter, Osoyoos had become one of the most active towns within Cascadia.
Annexation Of Snoqualmie
With the borders of Osoyoos expanding at a rapid rate, the city had found it to be very hard to expand southwards due to the small settlement of Snoqualmie; which was a small Cascadian town which now resides on the residential districts of Seattle and Osoyoos. KARN4 and another citizen by the name of chumpcharlie had later acquired Snoqualmie from its owner for around 500 gold. After acquiring, Snoqualmie was then dismantled and was later claimed over by Osoyoos and Seattle respectively.
The Osoyooan Tragedy
During the East Osoyoos Conflict, KARN4, who had been split up from his teammates, was engaging in a heated duel with an Indochinese player by the name of Nexus___. All of a sudden, he and another Osoyooan citizen named Acelly were both banned by then-moderator Fruitloopins on suspicion of cheating. After a few days, Osoyoos' future was starting to look uncertain. However, with the help of the EarthMC moderation team, KARN4 was found to be innocent and was later unbanned, resuming the rapid growth of Osoyoos.
Conflicts
The Battle Of OsoTri
The establishment of Osoyoos had caught the attention of the enemy nation of The Rocky Mountain Federation (RMF) known today as Rocky Mountain Brotherhood (RMB). With this, the RMF would send numerous enforcements to come harass the citizens of Osoyoos. One afternoon, numerous RMF players had come to harass and lure Osoyooan citizens out of their claim. Chumpcharlie, being fed up with the RMF players had used a wither rose trap on the south-east corner of Osoyoos to kill one of the hunters known as OnlyPico. After the death of OnlyPico, KARN4 and chumpcharlie had taken up their swords and went to fight the remaining players resulting in the deaths of two more RMF players (fire_344 and ECHO_69_69), OnlyPico had also died an additional two more times with another unnamed RMF player dying to fall damage while fleeing KARN4. After The Battle Of OsoTri, the RMF had stopped sending in players to harass Osoyooan citizens.
Dissolution and exodus
The buildup to the October Election was tense, and extremely chaotic, as the nation was divided between Osoyoos and a coalition between Social Democrats and Frontiersmen. Osoyoos championed being for invading Jefferson, making a better deal with the RMB, whom they were friendly with by this point, and heavily criticized the Frontier and Social Democrats for being "cowardly". On the other hand, the Frontier's candidate, Beamz30, simply went with the usual Frontier policies of the time, although being vehemently Anti-Osoyoos. The Social Democrat candidate, incumbent EmpressCorgo, also continued her usual policies of economic development, however adding pacifism, heavily criticizing Osoyoos for their imperialism and anti-democratic hinting, praising her and the Frontier's presidential ticket as "a vote for sanity". Heated discussions plagued the election, with Osoyan leaders hinting at undemocratic ideals, however possibly sarcastic. There was also another presidential candidate, named YoOscar, who was Osoyoos-Aligned, however did not gain traction and would go on to only get a tiny fraction of the vote.
On the night of October 22, the voting period had passed, and Sayerleft started to count votes. By XX:XX PM ET, she had completed the counting, and around 20~ people gathered in a nation-wide voice chat to watch the election results, including members from all factions. The election results were revealed by live messages in a dedicated channel, and Sayerleft had started the process of this at 8:00 PM ET. In the presidential results, first-preference votes had Osoyoos with a near majority of the vote, with EmpressCorgo and Beamz30 trailing behind. YoOscar's small voting pool was then redistributed, with one vote going to Flatvent_One, and one going to EmpressCorgo. Then finally, Beamz30 was eliminated, with every single vote of his going to EmpressCorgo, bringing EmpressCorgo and Flatvent_One to a perfect tie, requiring a house vote for one candidate to win.
Osoyoo's immediate reaction was of extreme anger, and they decided to hold a speech in their hometown of the same name, of which around a dozen came. It was revealed by Milgorn123 however that the platform the audience stood on was actually a carpet trap. Because of his actions, only a single person died to the trap, and he was later awarded with the Cascadian Medal of Freedom. In the voice chat, Osoyan leaders in extreme anger denounced Cascadia, complained about Cascadia's electoral system, the Single Transferable Vote, and announced their secession from Cascadia to start a nation in Africa, later known to be Chad, which happened immediately after.
Alucart, a leader within the movement, is widely known for declaring in a well known quote:
"Alrighty ya'll it's been fun while it lasted but imma be real, that election proved that some of you people are fake fellas. I'm out. Good luck on y'all's next election cuz you guys are gonna need it!"
The Osoyoos Secession happened throughout the night and into the next day. At 12:07:45 AM, the first town to secede, Mt. Constantinople led by Thither138 left. 30 seconds after at 12:08:11 AM, Baroque Works, Flatvent's town left the nation followed by Osoyoos itself just 3 seconds later. They were then followed by Grande Furry a minute later at 12:09:14 AM. At 12:22:20, Orbit2510 left the nation under Fairview. At 12:25:41, Alucart founded the first town of what would become the main metropolitan area of Chad, named "Akenuts" at the time of founding. After this, Rodekeel's town of Windhelm and Sierra Vista under YoOscar would leave later on.
A few Osoyan towns temporarily joined Nuevo_Leon, however most would very quickly leave to start the nation of Chad in central Africa. YoOscar under Sierra Vista seceded, however did not join Chad. A few Osoyoos-aligned players and mayors who were not as deep within the faction would stay, most notably xHydre, who would go on to found the Cascadian Communist Party with xStoicx, and later secede with NWT, fighting in the Cascadia-NWT War. Osoyoos proper would be rolled back a few days later by EMC Staff as per Karn4's request. By October 24th, the secession was completed, and Osoyoos would begin to build the nation of Chad.
Aftermath
Most of those within Cascadia were jubilant in response to Osoyoos's secession, believing them to have been a major threat to the nation's democracy and even security, as Flatvent had admitted they were planning to steal the entirety of the nation's bank if he had won, as they were seceding. Cascadia's population and activity Experienced a significant dip, with Cascadia's population experiencing a low of 178 from 280~, not experienced since the foundation of the nation itself. The fact that Osoyoos not only seceded, but left the region entirely, was seen as a major positive to Cascadia, as it prevented Cascadia from going into civil war and losing territory. The secession was said to be the second best possible outcome for Cascadia concerning Osoyoos, behind them quitting the server entirely. However, these views were not expressed by the government publicly as to avoid foreigners from viewing the events as government repression. Osoyoo's short but storied existence is often considered to be Cascadian Democracy's greatest test yet, one which Cascadia narrowly passed.
Though the nation kept growing after the secession, activity was lower and as a result, the October term was relatively uneventful excluding the merger of Jefferson into Cascadia. This would actually lead to Chad, who were made up of the seceded Osoyans, surpassing Cascadia in population for a very short period in December. However, by the time of the Wagner War Cascadia's population and activity increased back to pre-secession levels, and would continue to grow after that.
Many of the towns within Chad followed similar naming practices to their towns in Cascadia, with a capital called Osoyoos, Flatvent_One founding a town named Baroque Works again, and the same so for Thither138 and his Mt. Constantinople. The majority of Osoyoos who founded Chad would later seek revenge on Cascadia, accusing SayerQT of having rigged the election results in favor of EmpressCorgo, albeit unfounded. This resulted in them starting the Wagner War, eventually leading to multiple other nations such as Texas joining in. Chad would permanently decline in activity during the later stages of the Wagner War, eventually disbanding some time in spring of 2024. After this, they would resettle in Germany, eventually scattering or quitting the server throughout the rest of 2024.
Today
The area formerly known as Osoyoos is now largely unincorporated rural forest in King and Fraser counties.
