Northern Oregon Province

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Provincial Government

Northern Oregon is organized as a federation. Executive power is vested in the provincial president, who is elected or appointed by a council of the chief executives of governments of the incorporated governments of the province for two year terms. Legislative power resides in a Legislative Council consisting of forty councillors elected by the populations of the incorporated governments apportioned by population.

Government services are limited, with most resources being allocated to the Northern Oregon Provincial Police and the Northern Oregon Highway Service.

The current provincial president is Ryan Schaaf of Hood River.

History

Population

The province's population in 2045 was 227,847.

Geography

The Coast Range runs from north to south along the Pacific Ocean. Much of these low mountain ranges are forested with evergreens such as Spruce, Fir, and Hemlock. The average mountaintop in the Coast Range rises less than 2,000 feet above sea level, though Mary's Peak, southwest of Corvallis, Oregon, reaches 4,097 feet above sea level. Along the coast, cliffs rise almost 1,000 feet high over the Pacific Ocean. The Triangle Lake Valley was a very ancient lake. Many small coastal lakes are scattered throughout the Coast Range.

The Willamette Lowlands are a narrow strip of land to the east of the Coast Range along the Willamette River. The Willamette River flows north into the Columbia River. The soil is rich in the Willamette Lowlands and the climate is mild. This region contains most of Nothern Nregon's population, including the city of Portland itself.

To the east of the Willamette Lowlands, the Cascade Mountains rise to 11,239 feet above sea level (Mount Hood). The Cascade Mountains provide a rugged landscape where many of the nation's highest peaks can be found. Mount Hood is the highest point in Oregon. Other high peaks include Mt. Jefferson at 10,497 feet above sea level, Three Sisters, over 10,000 feet above sea level, and Mount McLoughlin, 9,495 feet high. Many lakes can be found in the Cascade Mountains.

Covering most of eastern Oregon and extending into Idaho and Washington, is the Columbia Plateau. Thousands of years ago, the Columbia Plateau was formed by lava flowing from cracks in the earth's crust. Oregon's Wheat farms are found on the Columbia Plateau. Much of the Columbia Plateau is quite rugged, however, and mountains such as the Blue Mountains and the Wallowa Mountains rise in the northeast. On the Oregon/Idaho border the Snake River has cut Hells Canyon deep into the earth. The average depth of this gorge, located between the Wallowa Mountains and the Seven Devils Mountains in Idaho, is 5,500 feet.

Significant Facilities

Royal Facilities

Provincial Facilities

Class II Commonwealth States Within the Province

Flag of the The Republic of Portland.

The Republic of Portland
Capital: Portland
Admitted to the UKA: 2007
By far the most populous of the province's component Commonwealth states, the Republic of Portland contains the city of Portland and some surrounding communities. It is the most highly industrialized and wealthiest region in the entire UKA.

Flag of the League of Oregon Coastal Communities.
League of Oregon Coastal Communities
Capital: Lincoln City
Admitted to the UKA: 2007
A confederation of small towns along the Pacific Coast west of the Coastal Range's crest, the league's population makes its living from logging, fishing, ship building, and agriculture.
The league was part of the anti-Portland coalition in 2007 that overthrew the DeHaven-ruled Republic of Portland. It is patterned after the Puget Sound League in Washington Province.

Flag of the Confederacy of Corvallis.
Confederacy of Corvallis
Capital: Corvallis
Annexed to the UKA: 2008
With its control of most of the fertile Willamette Valley, the Confederacy has an economy based primarily on agriculture. Connected by rail to the best market in the UKA for its products, the farmers of the valley are the wealthiest of their kind anywhere. There are a number of newly created industrial concerns in the Corvallis area.
The Confederacy was a White Supremacist slave-owning state in 2007. As it was serving as a haven for bandits and slave raiders, it was invaded and annexed to the British North American Colonies the year after the Alaska League and its allies occupied Portland. Slavery was abolished and the bandits driven off or exterminated by Portland troops. The area soon became the bread-basket of the Portland industrial center to the north and the surviving population soon reconciled itself with Portland rule.

Flag of the Barony of Willamette.
Barony of Willamette
Capital: Pleasant Hill
Joined the UKA: 2010
The barony's economy is almost exclusively agricultural.
Founded in 1989 by a bandit gang leader, Chuck Garcev, who realized that his best chance of survival was in a settled, stable community. By 2003, Garcev had secured enough land and earned a reputation for reliability, that his neighbor to the south, Duke James Morris of Roseburg acknowledged Garcev as Baron of Willamette. Willamette voluntarily joined the British North American Colonies at the suggestion of Duke James, at the same time as the Duchy of Roseburg.

Flag of the Confederation of the Warm Springs Indian Nations.
Confederation of the Warm Springs Indian Nations
Capital: Warm Springs
Annexed to the UKA: 2011
The nation's economy is based on agriculture, trade, and logging. The Indians of Warm Springs are famous as merchants, caravan guards, and horse traders.
Located in north central Oregon, just south of Mount Hood is the 644,000 acres homeland of the Warm Springs Indian Nations. This reservation is home to eight bands from three separate tribes that function as a unit. The Warm Springs (formerly known as the Walla Walla), Indians lend their name to the former reservation that was the nucleus of the confederation. They are represented by four bands, the Taih, Wyam, Tenino and Dock-spus. The Wasco are from the Dalles, Dog River and Ki-gal-twal-la bands. One band of the Northern Paiute is the remaining tribe.
Of the three nations, the Wasco or Wascopam is a very very small tribe about which little has been written. This small size is not uncommon amongst tribes in the Pacific north west. The Northern Paiute stretch across central and western Oregon, northeastern California and southwestern Idaho. Their southern cousins can be found in Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and southeastern California. The name Paiute means either "True Ute" or "Water Ute" pointing to an ancient relationship with that tribe. The Warm Springs are better known by their former name -the Walla Walla. The Walla Walla have traditionally lived in northern Oregon and southern Washington.
The Confederated tribes of the former Warm Springs Reservation were one of the most dangerous and implacable of the early foes of the Portland Governments, even before the 2007 conquest. The Indians raided the settled lands West of the mountains for plunder and slaves to sell to those groups living further to the east. An invasion by Colonial troops in 2009 turned out to be a near disaster, with the Royal Army being severely defeated near the town of Warm Springs. A second, much better prepared invasion in 2011 resulted in the submission of the tribal governments to the Colonial government on highly favorable terms, to the Indians! Admiral Ffolkes rightfully saw the advantages to having a well organized and powerful ally between the Portland metropolitan area and the sea of hostile bands to the east. The Indians found themselves united into a much larger market and were given a great deal of autonomy and gained the protection of the increasingly powerful Royal Army. Both sides gained a great deal from the agreement.

Flag of the Hood River Republic.
Hood River Republic
Capital: Hood River
Joined the UKA: 2007
The Hood River Republic's economy comes from timber sales, some agriculture, and trade along the Columbia River valley.
The republic joined the anti-Portland coalition in 2007 and was one of the initial Commonwealth states. It has remained a backwater ever since, content to be left alone in peace, especially after the annexation of Warm Springs brought an end to most of the raiding that had plagued the area since 1985.

Flag of the Prineville City State.
Prineville City State
Joined the UKA: 2012
Capital: Prineville
The city-state's economy is based almost exclusively on ranching, with regular cattle drives to the railhead near Bend.
A small community that managed to survive by ranching and some trade, Prineville found itself slowly dying, being nibbled to death by never ending raids by bandits and slavers. When the British North American Colonies expanded southward, the city threw itself under their protection. Shielded under the Portland umbrella, Prineville has been making a slow and steady comeback.

Flag of the Hermiston National Socialist Republic.
Hermiston National Socialist Republic
Capital: Hermiston
Annexed to the UKA: 2012
Hermiston's economy is based on trade and manufacturing. Several arms plants produce military hardware in the city, and it sits at the junction between trade routes leading north into the Hanford Republic and south towards Boise and Utah Provinces. It also serves as a railhead for shipping livestock raised on the surrounding ranches.

Flag of the Umatilla Confederation of Nations.
Umatilla Confederation of Nations
Capital: Cayuse
Joined the UKA: 2013
The nation's economy is based on horse, cattle, and sheep ranching.
The Umatilla Nation elected to join the commonwealth both to gain allies against the inevitable raiding and lawlessness on its borders, and to gain better access to markets for its livestock.

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City State of La Grande
Capital: La Grande
Joined the UKA: 2013
The city-state's economy is based on ranching, particularly the raising of horses. On of the Royal Army's stud farms is situated on the east side of La Grande.
Faced with bandit attacks and slave raids from all sides, the leaders of La Grande enthusiastically followed their Umatilla Indian Nation allies into the Commonwealth.

Flag of the Powder River Republic.
Powder River Republic
Capital: Baker
Annexed to the UKA: 2013
The republic's economy is based on ranching, particularly of sheep. The wool produced there is exported to the textile mills of Portland.
The republic found itself with the Royal Army on its northern border, with the Portlanders wanting to secure a trade route southeast through southern Idaho and into the Mormon State of Deseret. Given a strongly worded "suggestion" that an annexation WOULD take place no matter what, the president of the republic quickly agreed that joining the Commonwealth was a good idea.

Flag of Malhuer County.
Malhuer County
Capital: Ontario
Joined the UKA: 2013
The county's economy is based on ranching, particularly of sheep. The wool produced there is exported to the textile mills of Portland.
Having seen all the significant states to the northwest enter the Commonwealth, both Malhuer County and Nyssa jointly requested admission in the fall of 2013.

Flag of the City State of Nyssa.
City State of Nyssa
Capital: Nyssa
Annexed to the UKA: 2013
The county's economy is based on ranching, particularly of sheep. The wool produced there is exported to the textile mills of Portland.
Having seen all the significant states to the northwest enter the Commonwealth, both Malhuer County and Nyssa jointly requested admission in the fall of 2013.

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Town of Oakridge
Annexed to the UKA: 2012
The town's economy is based on logging and a paper mill.
The tiny independent town joined the Commonwealth at the same time as its allies, the Barony of Willamette and Duchy of Roseburg.

Crown Administered Territories Within the Province

Three Sisters Military Administrative District
Administrative Post Location: McKenzie Bridge
Annexed to the UKA: 2012
The area's economy, what little there is, is based on fur trapping.
Once a favored hiding area for bandits and slavers, the Three Sisters area is now a lightly inhabited backwater. Rugged, scenic, far from the railroad, and without good farmland, the king has proposed creating the first of the Kingdom's national parks there. Parliament, not wanted to spend any money on the idea, has been content to leave in its current torpor.
John Day Military Administrative District
Administrative Post Location: Condon
Annexed to the UKA: 2013
Most of the population of the district are nomadic herders, the so-called John Day "Indians".
With the John Days having been beaten into submission by a conflict that has lasted decades, the area, arid and only suitable for grazing, is slowly being settled by ranchers along the well-protected Columbia River Gorge. Only a few hundred settled people live in the vast tract, most within a few miles of the Portland National rail line that skirts the south edge of the gorge or around the administrative center and trading post at Condon.
Wallowa Military Administrative District
Administrative Post Location: Enterprise
Annexed to the UKA: 2013
With market and rail access to the west along the Portland National Railroad line, the Wallowa district is slowly being settled by ranchers attempting to expand into available grazing lands. There is growing sentiment in Parliament that the district should be partitioned between and annexed by the Umatilla Indian Nation, the City-state of La Grande, and the Powder River Republic. Such a move is likely before the end of the decade.

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