Puget

Puget, officially the Commonwealth of Puget, is a federal state of the Federal Kingdom of Lower Columbia. Located in the west of the country, on Puget Sound, it borders South Fraser on the north, Nicholasia on the east, Oregonia and Willamette on the south, and Pacifica and Olympus on the west.

Admission to Lower Columbia
Uniquely among all Lower Columbian states, Puget was formed from two separate entities: the Commonwealth of Rainier, which was already a state at the time and whose state assembly consented to the merger, and the Province of Puget, which was formerly part of the Federal Republic of Gudland. This unusual origin was the result of a concession which the provincial government of Puget demanded from the federal government in Vancouver as a condition of its accepting the treaty of annexation by which all of Gudland's territory was to be ceded to Lower Columbia. The diplomats whom King Tristan sent to Vancouver to negotiate the terms of the treaty were skeptical that the state government in Kristborg would consent to the proposed lerger; however, the state government of Rainier was facing a budget crisis due in part to the Gudland War's effects on state revenues and infrastructure, and they seized on the perceived opportunity to rebuild Rainier's economy at Puget's expense.

Representation in Parliament
Puget's delegation in the Federal Assembly is the most politically diverse of all the states, as it is the only state to have members of all seven national political parties in the Assembly. It is also the only state with an independent member of Parliament, Assemblyman Jonas Coddison. In total, Puget has 70 Assemblymen, more than any state excapt Willamette.