Hate to break it to you but, First of All I want Oregon and Washington, you can have California, second, the bread basket is farther east than what you described. Places like Iowa, Nebraska, the Dakotas, those places are the 'breadbasket' areas, the Great Plains area.Khell_Sennet said:My nation would occupy western Canada and America, specifically it would be all of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, and California, the western half of Montana (border running from the bottom right corner of Alberta to the top-right corner of Wyoming), the south half of Albera and British Columbia (Everything south of Whitecourt), and that coastal peninsula of Mexico drawing the border straight south from Yuma. If possible, I'd also like the Hawaiian islands, but that's a secondary concern (for now...).
Definitely my new nation, Nova Orsa would be a dictatorship to begin, and transition into a monarchy (my family being instated as the royal family, friends becoming the nobles). The state religion would be atheism, with no rights being given at the start, they would be introduced slowly as the laws are written in a clear and indisputable manner, unlike the loose, vague laws we have now.
Economically, we would be the breadbasket of North America. We have the farmland, the forests, the fish and a significant resource of crude oil. The oil would be for national use only, the rest can be exported.
The Pacific Northwest is good for timber industry and fishing, although California has quite the farm area, as does the Willamette Valley of Oregon, and Eastern Washington has many fruit orchards, montana is Cattle country and Nevada isn't really good for anything. But I'm not familiar with Canadian territory though.
But seriously, Oregon and Washington are mine.