Alternate history: the Secular Non Partisan Constitutional Federation of Cascadia

WORK IN PROGRESS.

(The above image comes from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Cascadia.svg.)

Shortly after the expedition of Lewis and Clark, a group of mainly classical liberal and minarchist minded settlers, along with some Native American refugees, started settling in the Northwestern United States, along with a number of people coming into western Canada, with the group crossing the U.S.-Canadian border, legally or not. Not wanting to be slaves of the central banks, a peaceful independence movement was formed by a group commonly known as the “Cascadians”, with an unclear name origin.

However, after they failed, they fought for their independence, and formed their own republic modeled after the U.S. republic and had a constitution similar to that of the U.S., but with stronger protections for human rights regardless of ethnicity or religion, included animal rights, prohibited income taxes (only sales taxes are permitted, and those are limited), prohibited the establishment of political parties, made it illegal to bribe public officials and agents, and is overall more restrictive on government.

After this, Cascadia virtually became a libertarian paradise, with some of the most personal and economic freedom in the world, and, other than border skirmishes with the U.S. and Canada, is a relatively peaceful and very stable nation.

After the formation of the Secular Nonpartisan Federation of Cascadia, aka, SNCF of Cascadia, or Cascadia for short, fought several border wars and near constant skirmishes with the U.S. and Canada, especially with Cascadian civilian militias assisting Native Americans and Native Canadians right up until the early 1900’s.

Cascadia’s borders expanded from Oregon in the South to Yukon in the North, and from Alaska in the west to Western Montana and Western Wyoming.

In the 1870’s, Cascadia bought Alaska from Russia. This investment paid off with Alaskan gold and oil. In 1917, Cascadia purchased the Virgin Islands from Denmark, and did the same to Iceland in 1968.

In 1965, the Cook Islands, in 1974, Niue, 1986, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands, and in 1994, Palau, became “associated states”, which gets them extra government services, and better defense and funding from Cascadia, along with allowing their nationals and citizens to visit Cascadia with no restrictions.
But, because their constitutions are too different from Cascadia, their governments have no voting rights to influence the Cascadian government decisions.

In the 1930’s, after Adolf Hitler kicked the central banks out of Germany and took power away from powerful Jewish businesspeople, the National Socialist German government asked the Cascadian government for support.

However, Cascadia’s constitution prohibited the government supporting human rights abusers, and Hitler tried to convince the Cascadians to support him simply for his opposition to the central banks on the basis that his government wasn’t evil compared to almost every other country in the world.

Because of the German government’s treatment of minorities and ideological brainwashing of the people, Cascadia never supported the German government at the time, seeing the authoritarian fascist National Socialist party as almost no better than the central banks or colonialist European governments.

When the European theater of World War 2 began, the Cascadian government hoped that Hitler will destroy the central banks, and when that happens, the axis powers and the Soviet Union will fight each other until they become so weak that Cascadia can destroy their governments and insert puppet governments.

However, when Cascadia was invaded by Canada (which later withdrew to support Great Britain) and the United States of America after false-flag bombings in the invading countries, Cascadia threatened to join the axis, but never followed through.

Right when the U.S. military made a serious push into Cascadia & break through the stalemate, it was December the 7th and Pearl Harbor was attacked, and besides, the Cascadians and even the majority of the American and Canadian public wanted to end the war.

This forced the Canadian and U.S. governments to sign the “border non-aggression treaty” with Cascadia, in which neither side is allowed to start violence and both sides must respect the border as a demilitarised zone, and may only send specific law enforcement agencies (the Federal Police for Cascadia, the Border Patrol for the United states, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for Canada) into this demilitarised zone, with the added on requirement that uniforms and vehicles be clearly marked (ie full color patches, no patches with subdued colors, and vehicles must have clear markings in contrasting colors).
It was originally proposed to allow no one into the DMZ, but because there already is too many people living near the border to evict, law enforcement is allowed into the DMZ as long as they do not cross national borders.

A “peace house” was built on the borders of Alberta and West Montana in Cascadia, Saskatchewan in Canada and Montana of the U.S.A. (the real-life location can be seen at about https://www.google.com/maps/@48.99962,-110.0044919,31m/data=!3m1!1e3). This is intended to be a symbol of peace, tolerance, forgiveness and harmony, between the countries, and where people can technically cross borders with no trouble or worries.