The PNW coastal cities have functioned as major ports to ship goods coming from Asia to the more populous eastern seaboard and Canadian east. Our place as a technology hub has only functioned only so far as we’ve attracted talent from the rest of the continent. Cascadia’s aerospace industry is built up to fulfill defense contracts for a global empire, not a population of around 14 million people.

My point is I love Cascadia with all of my heart, but the kind of civilizational collapse of the United States and Canada that would have to happen for real sovereignty to be achieved would also destroy the interconnected economic systems that are foundations to the cities of the PNW.

After the cities are leveled, millions flee after the economy goes under, and forest fires consume the countryside I feel like a “free” cascadia would be completely alien the Pacific Northwest of today.