

After that, any and all overseas provinces gained by the mother nation within the same colonial region are acquired by the colonial nation. This also applies overseas if Maya or Inca colonize Australia or New Zealand (in Oceania), the colonized land will still remain under their direct control, even though it is geographically located overseas.Īssuming that the country's capital is outside the colonial regions, then if said country colonizes and cores five overseas provinces in the same colonial region, (regardless of whether they are part of a state or territory) a colonial nation will form. For example, if the Maya or Inca (in Mesoamerica and South America, respectively) colonize North America, the colonized territory will remain under their direct control. In order to allow a country to spawn colonial nations, its capital must not be located within a colonial region. There are twelve colonial regions in the game, 11 in the Americas (7 in North America, 4 in South America) and 1 covering Australia and New Zealand.Īs long as the conditions are met, any nation in the game except former colonial nation formables can spawn colonial nations, from large and wealthy empires like Ming or a united Bharat to small and poor minor nations like Iceland. The New World and Oceania are divided into several ‘colonial regions’ for the purpose of forming colonial nations. The three defining and most prominent natural elements of Cascadia are the water resources, the green forests, and the snow.Colonial regions in the new world (America and Oceania). The flag characterizes the natural beauty of the bioregion of Cascadia. Unlike many flags, this is not a flag of blood, nor of the glory of a nation, but a love of the bioregion our ecological family and its natural boundaries the place in which we live and love.īasically, the flag consist of three horizontal stripes, and a Douglas fir in the middle of it stands vertically. The flag conveys something far more tangible than an abstract concept of demarcation of space the flag captures that love of living communities in our bioregion. It was pretty much an abstract concept reserved for radical geographers and hip sociologists. Prior to the design and its popularity, the idea of Cascadia–specifically the bioregion.

I had this vision of a flag where the Cascadian landscape came to mind. One day as I sat on a hill with my companion. I was deeply homesick for the forests of Cascadia, specifically the Willamette Valley forests I grew up around. Though I totally love the people, cultures, and landscape of Eastern Europe. When I was a graduate student studying in Eastern Europe. I designed the Cascadian flag, aka the Doug, way back in the mid-1990s. Symbolism and conception in Cascadian FlagĪlexander Baretich who designed the flag in the mid-1990s. The tricolor flag of Cascadia has a strong affinity with nature either of its colors symbolizes a different natural element of the Cascadian bioregion. It was Alexander Baretich-a native of Portland, Oregon-who first designed and created the Cascadian flag The name of Doug flag, is taken from Douglas fir appears on the flag.
