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Martin23230

Goldstein said:
I tried the yellow outline around the others and I liked how it looked, so I'm changing that.
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Great!

Goldstein said:
The shades of the symbols' backgrounds, they have a significance that gets lost if I alter them, and the yellow in them is sligthly darker to create a contrast that avoids confusion.
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Not great. It's always important to remember when designing a flag that you are designing a flag, i.e. a piece of coloured fabric that flaps around in the wind. On a computer you could make a flag that looks like a Dulux colour chart, but it would be completely impractical to actually sew in reality. That's why you standardise colours, and so having multiple shades of yellow on one flag would just be annoying.

Goldstein said:
As for Andorra's CoA, it represent historical feudal lords that ruled over the area, two of them not being present anymore IOTL, so as a symbol based on a historical account, I guess it serves just as well.
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That is true, but my line of thought was that a) your state of Andorra might not exactly correspond to the current territory, especially if it had lost it's unique head of state arrangement, and such might need a new symbol and b) the coat of arms of Andorra have varied a bit over the years, so it's not certain that the version you used would make sense.
 

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Martin23230 said:
Not great. It's always important to remember when designing a flag that you are designing a flag, i.e. a piece of coloured fabric that flaps around in the wind. On a computer you could make a flag that looks like a Dulux colour chart, but it would be completely impractical to actually sew in reality. That's why you standardise colours, and so having multiple shades of yellow on one flag would just be annoying.
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Multiple shades of yellow like Rwanda? Like the scores of sub-national flags that combine up to three shades of the same color? What's so impractical in something that is done in the real world, and how is it more impractical than sewing an average coat of arms?

EDIT: Nevermind. I've changed it to uniform yellow just to see how it looked, and the difference appears so subtle that the inclusion of two shades no longer seems justified.

Martin23230 said:
That is true, but my line of thought was that a) your state of Andorra might not exactly correspond to the current territory, especially if it had lost it's unique head of state arrangement, and such might need a new symbol and b) the coat of arms of Andorra have varied a bit over the years, so it's not certain that the version you used would make sense.
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You can see that the historical arrangements of the coat of arms of Andorra have all the exact same meaning and disposition of meaning. Mine is just another variation, in this case by virtue of its romboidal shape.
 
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Eckener

Nick Griffalco said:
I'll message you with my thoughts. Anyway here's the flag of Upper Hudson. The blue comes from the flag of New York, I would have included a tan band for the old flag of New York, but brown looked better
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The old flag of New York? Never seen that before.
I like how this looks.

Nick Griffalco said:
Also here's that alt-Darwinia Olympic flag. It has the torch eternal flame and all of the stars represent the nation's who have been touched by the legacy of the Olympics and of Ancient Greece as a whole
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LOVE this. A lot!
Though "stars represent the nation's who've been touched by the legacy of the olympics" sounds vague. Maybe the stars could represent the nations of the first olympics, or the last olympics prior to the event, or better possibly the first post-Event olympics. But overall love the look. I think the star in the center would be Greece.

Upvoteanthology said:
I think you should post the flags for this series on the thread itself, you're kinda spamming the thread with stuff for a scenario you never explained. :eek:
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Sorry to have been monopolizing. We started awhile back. The thread for the story is here (the story itself starts on page 8). Long story short, it's based of this novel where in the early 1900s Europe is replaced by some alien form of the continent. I don't actually care for all of the story itself, or rather, the deeper hidden plot, but the scenario has always intrigued me.
 

Sgtwolf00

I'm quickly going to bud into this conversation to bring you a flag based of the flag of the Russian SFSR from 1918–1937 and from 1937–1954 (link here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic)

This is the fictional flag of Communist Novgorod. It says in Russian something that I don't remember what it was :eek:. Something along the lines of Communist Republic of Novgorod.

Edit: Here's the smaller version of the flag.

Communist Novgoradian Flag (smaller version).png

Communist Novgoradian Flag (smaller version).png
 

What am I doing

Sgtwolf00 said:
I'm quickly going to bud into this conversation to bring you a flag based of the flag of the Russian SFSR from 1918–1937 and from 1937–1954 (link here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic)

This is the fictional flag of Communist Novgorod. It says in Russian something that I don't remember what it was :eek:. Something along the lines of Communist Republic of Novgorod.

Edit: Here's the smaller version of the flag.
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It says "United novgorodian a menshevik Antechamber". Not something that could be usually seen on a flag.
 

Sgtwolf00

What am I doing said:
It says "United novgorodian a menshevik Antechamber". Not something that could be usually seen on a flag.
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Well I use Google translate so it wasn't going to be accurate. My idea was that during the Feburary and October Revolutions the Mensheviks had to find a place of support and somehow they got enough support in the former Novgorodian area and were able to declare Independance from the Bolshiviek USSR. Note that this wasn't the original story, I made this maybe two years ago and I don't remember what the story was, probaly because I didn't make much of a story. I have another fictional Communit country in my folders that I'll upload in the next post.
 

Sgtwolf00

Here it is, The Red Bear Republic! Inspired by the Wargame Red Dragon logo, I made this along with the Novgorodian flag and some others a while back so I might as well slowly upload them. I don't contribute to this site enough. Note that the dimensions might be off since I've just done a quick job re shaping the flag. So don't freak out!


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Mac Gregor

Goldstein said:
Out of the three current superstates, Oceania was, if not the first to adopt its final and perfected form, the first to materialize. Its precedent can be traced to the Allied Nations of the Second World War. It was a decade later, after Stalin's betrayal, that its remainder would become more and more closely integrated during the course of the Third World War. First Called the Oceanic Alliance due to its maritime vocation, it mainly comprised the republics of the Americas and the British Commonwealth of Nations. The process of integration icluded a single military, a transnational presidency, the use of the Dollar as a single currency and the unification of the measure systems. Even if it presented itself as the last beacon of democracy, from the beginning of its existence most of its guarantees had been curtailed by a constant state of emergency, and life standards only decreased for the course of the war, even more so when said war became atomic in nature and economies and infrastructures crumbled. The Historicist doctrine that would become the base of Oligarchical Colectivism would originate in New York City by the works of Emmanuel Goldstein, but it would initially find most of its adherents in the British Isles, as a splinter faction originated in both the Labour and the Conservative parties, preaching a form of Socialism that represented the aristocratic ethos and moral hygiene they claimed to be at the heart of English civilization and that would invigorate the whole of Oceania. A truly English Socialism.

Eurasia can be traced to the old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and can be identified as such after the Soviets overran continental Europe in the early 50's. It was the now reviled Stalin the first who talked about an Eurasian Union, but it soon became clear between several disaffected groups of the CPEU and its new European collaborators, many of which had read Goldstein's works, and which included a great deal of reconverted Nazi sympathizers, that the increasingly paranoid and erratic Stalin had bitten more than he could chew, and that a great effort was at stake of being lost. If Eurasia, with its enormous cultural disparities, wanted to keep itself together, it needed a greater clarity of goals and more efficiency in the pursuit of regimentation, in the adoption of closed elites, in the elimination of dissidence. Stalinism was not enough; rebellion had to become impossible. Moreover, subjecting itself to the caprices of a madman weakened survival chances: party rule had to be total but collective, uniform but decentralized. The poisoning of Stalin unleashed the last big round of purges, whose survivors furiously called for a new revolution led by a new vanguard, a new majority. A New Bolshevism.

Eastasia was the last one to appear, out of the chaos of the Chinese Civil War and the bleeding Eurasian-Oceanic battlegrounds of the Japanese Isles. Again, Goldsteinist thought made a resolute faction of both the Chinese Communists and the Nationalists to realize they had much more in common than they thought. By the mid 50's, they were already pulling the strings of both sides of the war in the shadows, while stablishing direct line with the Japanese Goldsteinists, themselves influenced by a weird mix of the teachings of Nichiren Buddhism, Mencius and Ikki Kita. As a result, the body of doctrine espoused by the United Army of East Asia, when it was first named as such, was incredibly syncretic, but it appealed enough to far-right and far-left sensibilities to slowly sweep the dozens of antagonizing factions it faced through the chaotic East Asian Theatre. And of course, in spite of its syncretism, it followed to the letter the spirit in which the world was falling. The same fanaticism, the same hierarchical Collectivism, the same sadistic worship of power. The same Obliteration of the Self.
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I love it.
 

Magnificate

This is extracted from the canton of one of the proposals for the new New Zealand flag. I think it's brilliant:

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EDIT: If I were a New Zealander I wouldn't like any of the new proposals that made it to the referendum stage and I've voted for retaining the original flag. But, I've got my favourite design that didn't made it to the poll:

https://www.govt.nz/browse/engaging...ag-your-chance-to-decide/gallery/design/27735

So simple, so evocative! Good job Matthew Clare!
 
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Kibbutznik

Sgtwolf00 said:
I'm quickly going to bud into this conversation to bring you a flag based of the flag of the Russian SFSR from 1918–1937 and from 1937–1954 (link here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic)

This is the fictional flag of Communist Novgorod. It says in Russian something that I don't remember what it was :eek:. Something along the lines of Communist Republic of Novgorod.

Edit: Here's the smaller version of the flag.

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The proper term for "Communist Republic of Novgorod" would be "Комунестическая Республика Новгорода". That last word on the flag is the femenine version of "at the front", so not very sure what you're trying to achieve with its usage.
 
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