Cascadia is made up of the Western halves former States and Provinces of Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and the North Coast of California. The division was based along the Cascade Mountain Range. Home to the largest trading port on the West Coast, the Seattle Metroplex, Cascadia is one of the wealthiest states in the Union. Though they have elected to make Olympia the official capitol, few would argue that its most dynamic cultural, political, and economic center is anything other than Seattle. While one of the larger states, it is the most narrow state in the union relative to its total area, extending from the North Coast of the former state of California, to just outside of Juneau, Alaska, Cascadia is the dominating power of the Pacific North West. Cascadia has one arguably the s