Summary

The largest nation of North America, the Dominion of Canada is the instrument of a resurgent Great Britain looking to regain its lost empire.

Includes: All of Canada minus Vancouver Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island; parts of North and South Dakota

Borders: Alyeska to the west; Cascadia to the south, along the Frazier River; Intermountain to the south, along the Missouri River; Lakes to the southeast, along the Red River of the North; Quebec to the east (and west, via Newfoundland and Labrador)

Capital: Ontario

Language: English

History

After the Jacksonian War of Independence cost Britain Quebec and all of its Atlantic colonies, most of the United Kingdom’s power in North America remained in Canada.  Britain countered by mandating a massive population and industrialization boom in Canada’s remaining provinces.  Its long-term goal was to shift the balance of power in North America away from the new kingdoms an back towards Britain through Canada.

To increase its population on the continent, Britain offered massive land grants and tax incentives to citizens willing to relocate to and develop such provinces.  Accompanied by a migration of loyalists out of newly-formed Jacksonia and Quebec, the population of British controlled Canada exploded.  The Dominion waited while further wars of independence and civil wars tore the nations of North America into smaller and smaller entities, interceding where it could.

The British allied with the secessionists in the Jacksonian War of Secession, which gave rise to the Dixie Alliance.  But the greatest shift in power happened during the Great War, when the Tripartite Alliance of Britain, France, and Russia joined with the Dixie Alliance, Texas, and Canada to defeat the Central Powers of Europe and North America.

In the armistice, the Dominion won back Labrador and Newfoundland, but more importantly forced Jacksonia to break apart into three kingdoms.  Aside from losing a bit of land south of the Frasier River to the upstart kingdom of Cascadia, Canada was the definitive victor in the Great War in North America.

Since the war, the Dominion has continued its pressure against the three Jacksonian kingdoms.  Success there has been mixed.  Lakes is openly defiant, New England congenial, but Intermountain is all but broken, and has ceded large tracts of land to Canada, giving it a deeper thrust into North America than it’s ever had before.  After nearly two hundred years, the British-Canadian plan to divide and re-conquer North America is certainly bearing fruit.

Rulers

The House of Windsor.

Relations

The Dominion of Canada has no allies among the American kingdoms it borders.  It has found allies of convenience in nations to the south of its immediate neighbors, and uses these connections to put pressure on nations it wishes to see collapse.