Flag Challenge 53: VOTING POLL

[Eigenwelt]

Originally Posted by Eigenwelt

Weekly Flag Challenge 53: So you say you want an evolution...

Your challenge, should you accept and submit, is to show the evolution of a current national flag from its present version to a new version after a change in government. This could be a regime change, revolution, election, abolishment/institution of a monarchy, etc.

Submissions should include a minimum (and recommended) two flags. Before and after. Please submit your flag(s) as one image. This can be a diagram showing the evolution, or simply two flags stacked horizontally or vertically with a small separation.

The submission deadline is midnight (GMT) Wednesday, September 7th. (9/7/11)

Good luck to all the entries!

(submission posts forthcoming)

[Eigenwelt]

Flag of the United Kingdom of England, Wales and Northern Ireland

[Eigenwelt]

Following the attempt of a faction of alien space bats to influence the events on earth once more, Prince Alois of Liechtenstein is mind controled into leading a Coup d'Etat against his father to gain control of the principality. Upon assuming the throne, He declares himself king, establishing an autocratic Kingdom.

After a few months of sometime erratic rule, King Alois declares war on the Czech Republic and Slovakia to regain the lands once held by the House of Liechtenstein within their borders. Fearful of the real threat of invasion if the government follows through (especialy considering the lack of actual soldiers in the kingdom), a grassroot movement (dubbed the Skiers Revolution) quickly overthrow the ruling government and establish a republic.

Meanwhile, the alien space bats move on to San Marino.....

[Eigenwelt]

After being seperated for some time in the 21st century, the regions of Wallonia and Flanders are to be joined together forcefully by a German-led European Empire at the end of the same century.

[Eigenwelt]

And I set myself to work yet again to work out something new, this time getting rid of one of the worst European flags: The Belarussian flag! When Belarus' current government falls apart, maybe... The Belarussian People's Republic makes a bit of a comeback!

[Eigenwelt]

The scenario is basically the Arab Spring heats up in the Arabian peninsula and the Sauds are ousted, after which the new government sets about liberating the people of Yemen and Bahrain, who had been protesting and revolting for their rights parallel to the Arabians.

[Eigenwelt]

In 2013, under the influence of a few members of the Communist Party, China annex Macau, Hong-Kong, becomes a bit democratic and was renamed People's Federation of China.

In 2015, under threat of a communist revolt in Taiwan, RoC's rulers agree to join the Federation. The Great Union of China, a semi-democratic superpower, is born.

[Eigenwelt]

1 Apil 2015: Following months of unrest, a coup was triggered when the San Marino football team lost 26-0 to Liechtenstein in a Euro 2016 qualifying group. Power was seized by the Revolutionary Anarchist Atheist Football and Angling Club. Henceforth, the state was to be known as 'Il Marino', dispensing with the religious 'San'.

The new flag contained the traditional '3 mountains' device, with the crown removed; the device was set within an Anarchist co-operation symbol. These were placed on a central stripe of the traditional San Marino blue, with an upper and lower stripe of black, the Anarchists' colour.

[Eigenwelt]

The Nordic People's Communion (or Communion [1] of Nordic People's Republics)

- There is an extended Russian Civil War between Communists, Czarists, and other Republicans
- The Weimar Republic undergoes Communist Revolution
- The Communist Movement [2] spreads to Denmark and Sweden, and then to Norway [3]
- The ideal to create a European People's Communion fails due to nationalist sentiment but results in a pan-Scandinavian union and a mostly successful attempt to merge the Scandinavian languages/dialects into a common Nordic.

[1] ATL term for a Communist Union or Federation
[2] A common symbol used is the cogwheel
[3] the Royal Families flee to Iceland, and Britain, under British Protection)

[Eigenwelt]

FORMATION OF THE GREATER KOREAN REPUBLIC
Years 2012-2022


2012: Kim Jong-Un becomes leader of North Korea, announcing the creation of a new weapons program to expand North Koreas “defenses” against any aggressor, causing major power outages all along the east and north, as well as creating a even more repressive regime than his father.
2013: Massive environmental damage along its eastern cost line due to a failed nuclear test lead to the deaths of thousands and the failing of the crops in the north. The UN imposes harsher restrictions on trade with the North Korean regime, with China finally suspended any monetary aid or trade to North Korea. Over the next few months millions starve in the streets due to failed crops across the nation, leading to mass rioting amongst the civilian and even military populace. South Korea, aided by the US and Japan begins send troops along its northern most border, fearing a attack by Kim Jong-Un in order to stave off North Koreas collapse.
2014: Rioting finally reaches Pyongyang , after Kim Jong-Un sold much of the remaining grain into Russia, to gain more money for his assault on South Korea, perceiving the buildup of troops along the DMZ as a act of aggression, and attacking now would “unify ay dissenters back into the glorious regime“. As thousands storm the streets, tired of Kim’s actions, clashing with Kim supporters, usually violently, Kim orders the military to fire upon both sides to restore order. Much of the military, tired, underpaid and starving in many places themselves, finally rebel, joining the rebelling citizenry against Kim’s loyalists, resulting in Kim and much of his families capture as they storm his palatial residence.
Military leaders form a Military Junta, and some of their first acts is to reestablish trade relations with UN members, the deformation of the Juche system, releasing many dissenters from prison or hard labor, and to bring back talks with South Korea on first the end of the DMZ, and later reunification and rebuilding of their country.
2015: Over the next year the Military Junta, led by General Chang-Uk , opened the country to foreign aid, became disarming their stockpiles according the UN sanctions and the physiological rebuilding of their nations people, aided by South Korea. Kim Jong-Un is put on trial, along with over family members and party politicians (with the exception of Kim Jong-Nam and Kim Sul-Song , who fled the country prior to Pyongyang’s fall). Also, in a joint conference between Chang-Uk and Eun Wang (first female president of South Korea), they announce, following the next year, the creation of the National Unification Council, a cooperative government between the two nations , represented by both leaders, and other members, in order to smooth unification between the countries, whilst aiding the reconstruction of the North in order to avoid a economic crash when they unify.
2016: The Nation Unification Council becomes the united governing body of the Korean peninsula, but still retaining equal representation in the UN. Thousands of North-South Korean families are reunited during this process, whilst South Korea aid in the construction of new infrastructure and agrarian processes into the North. Most of the Kim family have received life sentencing, whilst the remaining members (Nam and Song) are arrested in Luxemburg, sent back to the Korean peninsula, and forced to giver over their fathers secret holdings to help reconstruction, are stripped of their citizenship and deported to China, before disappearing from records all together.
2017-2019: Half the DMZ by now has being removed, enabling large influxes of transported goods and people to enter the North and South. New rail lines are established, booming influx of food and other produce to the North. Environmental campaigners however have pointed out the damage being done to endangered species living in the former DMZ zones, where many had recuperated their losses due to low human presence. The NUC establish most of the DMZ as a nature reserve, whilst “contained” lines are used for transport and tunnels dug for rail lines in order to both keep animal populations up, and , in the long run, boom tourism to the areas, and Pyongyang becomes a nominee for the 2026 Olympics.
Rampant unemployment however causes some concern, as many Northern military servicemen have being made redundant. However, the NUC established the “post military economic program“, giving former military work whilst studying, or entry into the tourist industry. Also, the NUC realized they now had a native military force with the remaining militaries of both nations, and asked the US to begin withdrawing now they had their own protective forces, a idea the US readily agreed too due to budget restraints.
2020-2021: The NUC holds its first trial election between all citizens off the Korean peninsula, whilst the last US forces leave the peninsula, with the exception of those applying for “nationalization” in Korea, due to both having families there, and the economic breakdown of the dollar in the global economy, resulting in the US losing international power. Also the NUC holds its first conference with its immediate neighbors, to deal with growing tension between China-Taiwan, the military situation in Japan now the US are withdrawing there, and the question of Tibetan independence.
They also unveil that by first formal election in 2022 (a month after both the Military junta of the North and Presidential Republic of the South formally dissolve, with the NUC acting as transitional goverment until the election day), they will formally unify the Korean peninsula back into a single nation, named “The Greater Korean Republic“, establishing Seoul as its national capital (Pyongyang becoming a Special City), and held a contest design for the new flag, expressing it to represent the united Korean people, as well as both the history of the peninsula and its future.
2022, March 1: The formal establishment of the Greater Korean Republic.

[Eigenwelt]

Evolution of Lithuania-Belarus state.

[Eigenwelt]

Here's a new flag for Zimbabwe, from a timeline where Mugabe gets overthrown and a true multi-party democracy is installed. The old ZANU-PF-based flag is replaced by a new one influenced by the Movement for Democratic Change.

[Eigenwelt]

All flags are now uploaded. Please commence voting.

(...to the two people who voted before the thread was finished: tsk tsk.)

[Marc Pasquin]

on this thread, do we simply vote or can we say why we did so ?

[Eigenwelt]

Once all the submissions are added to the thread (and they are), I don't have any issue with discussion here.

It's been done in the past.

[Marc Pasquin]

just wanted to say I voted for zimbabwe because I thought it was the most realistic evolution in my opinion. Simple yet effective.

[JJDXB]

Bumping this up to the top

[oddboy]

This challenge has me really torn. I like 1: UK, 8: Nordic Peoples, and 10: Litova. They also dominate the current votes...

[Thoughtless Miscreant]

How long does voting last for?

[Iserlohn]

Yay! Fourth place!