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!!Cross Post Alert!! cross posted from both Reddit (kinda) and the alternate US state flags thread.

so yeah, i was crusin around on reddit looking for some good content when i came to a redesign of the Hawaiian flag posted by Eren_Jeager and i wanted to post it on here to spread the love and support for the flag:
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here is the link to the imgur where variants of the flag are: http://imgur.com/a/9HZso
and here is the original reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillolog...ian_flag_redesign_oc/?st=iw245w7i&sh=c7aea1c5

personally i love the flag and (of course) its better than the current design but i have to ask, what are your thoughts?
 
I have a request. It's for an entity known as the Federation of South Africa.

The FSA a sub-federation of 10 states (Good Hope, Stellaland, Griqualand West, Transkei, Ciskei, Natal, Transvaal, Orange Free State, KwaZulu and Gaza) and two territories (Walvis Bay and the Prince Edward Islands) within the much larger USAO (United States of the Americas and Oceania - no relation to Eurofed's timeline). The USAO spans all of the Americas from Greenland down to the Falklands, as well as Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, the Philippines, Britain, Ireland, and all the islands of the Pacific, except for the Japanese-controlled Northern Marianas. The states of the FSA are both part of the USAO, and autonomous relative to the rest of the union. This is mostly so they can do business and interact with neighboring African countries more effectively, independent of the rest of the Union. It's complicated. For the record, Britain and Ireland comprise a similar entity known as the Commonwealth of British States.

Anyway, my idea for the flag is that it look at least something like the post-Apartheid flag of OTL, but with some sort of indication that it's also part of the United States. All else I leave to your discretion.
 
I have a request. It's for an entity known as the Federation of South Africa.

The FSA a sub-federation of 10 states (Good Hope, Stellaland, Griqualand West, Transkei, Ciskei, Natal, Transvaal, Orange Free State, KwaZulu and Gaza) and two territories (Walvis Bay and the Prince Edward Islands) within the much larger USAO (United States of the Americas and Oceania - no relation to Eurofed's timeline). The USAO spans all of the Americas from Greenland down to the Falklands, as well as Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, the Philippines, Britain, Ireland, and all the islands of the Pacific, except for the Japanese-controlled Northern Marianas. The states of the FSA are both part of the USAO, and autonomous relative to the rest of the union. This is mostly so they can do business and interact with neighboring African countries more effectively, independent of the rest of the Union. It's complicated. For the record, Britain and Ireland comprise a similar entity known as the Commonwealth of British States.

Anyway, my idea for the flag is that it look at least something like the post-Apartheid flag of OTL, but with some sort of indication that it's also part of the United States. All else I leave to your discretion.
Sure, what is the history of the FSA / what countries had a major impact on it?
[Also, are its main symbols mostly those of OTL South Africa?]
 
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Sure, what is the history of the FSA / what countries had a major impact on it?
[Also, are its main symbols mostly those of OTL South Africa?]

The USAO already controlled the Americas and Oceania when it went to war with the fascist British Realm in the 1940's. World War III (1939-1946) was the final, cataclysmic confrontation between the United States and the British Empire, and began with an invasion of Australia by the forces of the British East Indies, following the Torres Strait Incident. British landings along the coast of Brazil in ’42 invited an American counter-invasion the next year. The fighting was brutal, and saw extensive contamination of the Kalahari with British chemical and biological weapons. After the decisive Battle of Bloemfontein, the back of the British Army was broken, but the Realm’s diehard “Special Branch” (basically the British version of the SS) began a guerrilla campaign against the occupying American forces, even as the British regulars began surrendering en masse. It wasn’t until the Fall of London in 1946 that the South African SB finally surrendered to the USAO forces. Following the end of hostilities, the US was more or less left to pick up the pieces in South Africa; the SB’s scorched earth policies and extensive use of WMD’s rendered South Africa more or less economically dependent upon the USAO – just as the British Isles had become. The USAO tried propping up an independent Federation of South Africa between 1944 and 1962, but it became clear that there was little will to keep the project afloat in South Africa, and more will to just join the Union. The FSA was repurposed and remade into a sub-federation, similar to what had already been set up in Britain and Ireland earlier in 1958. In 1980, Nelson Mandela becomes Prime Minister of the FSA.

As for the symbolism…like I said, it should have a “South African” look, but also seem like part of the US.
 
More flags! As always, read more at Pachamama Awakens!

Nanosocialist Flag/Flag of the Nanosocialist World Republic:
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Variant Nanosocialist Flag:

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Flag of the International Nanosocialist Cooperative:
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Flags of Musux Tawantinsuyu:
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Flag of the Argentine Nanosocialist Party:
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Flag of Pan-African Nanosocialism:
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Flag of the Nanosocialist Republic of Burkina Faso:
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Nanosocialist USA flag (not official):
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My unofficial WFC entry, which I cannot enter as I am the challenge maker!

The Weltreich


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The growing conquest of the world by the Third Reich was, in eyes of many, inevitable. Their advent of nuclear and biological weapons made them unstoppable. In only a few years, the governments of all opposition were targeted with Karmesinrot-13, an advanced bioweapon that decimated the population of their capitals, with nuclear warheads aimed at all major city centers. Ultimatums were given: Surrender or Die. Some resisted; after five nations found themselves utterly annihilated, the rest gave in quickly. This domino effect saw the world fall. The integration of the economically declining Italian Fascist Empire into the Reich was the beginning of the Weltreich in its true form. Soon enough, nations were being made to begin "Nazification" of their populace, and soon National Socialism was officially the dominant ideology of the world. Soon enough, nation-states were carved upon the Earth through force, genocide and mass deportation seen as acceptable means. In the case of the Americas, "Mestizia" was divided into four states, and "Anglia" remaining as yet uncontrolled. And Africa? It became a matter of which tribe accepted National Socialism fastest, resulting in the extermination of all their enemies up to a pre-determined border. On July 7, 2007, when the Fuhrer of the Europan Federal Reich announced the annexation of all nations deemed "ideologically pure", thus turning the Weltreich from a military and economic agreement into a singular state, the globe cheered with wondrous applause.

The flag of the Weltreich is a black banner for fascism, and for the solidarity the "Enlightened Master Races," of whom the Aryan is sovereign, and the gold represents purity and enlightenment. The symbol is the sigil of the Weltreich itself, a modification of the Reichsadler of the German Reich, with twin fasces for the unity of (most of) mankind in both Hemispheres, a victor's wreath to represent victory against National Socialism's enemies, and the replacement of the swastika (now the symbol of the German people) with the Odal rune, signifying the inheritance of the Reich to all of the world, to all of "Humanity's Fatherland."

The Coalition of Free Peoples

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The Coalition of Free Peoples is the antithesis of the Weltreich, and consists of all territories not under Nazi control, namely East Asia and "Anglia" (AKA the former US and Canada). Originally, it began as an underground movement, moving various untermensch peoples out of the nations and to either Japan (the new de facto rival of the Germans, at the time a nearly self-sufficient state) or one of the Former-US Republics (the only place where race mixing of any kind is allowed). This group also had aims to prevent their integration to the growing Weltreich, happily deemed to be not yet ideologically pure, drawing recruitment from nations that refused to indoctrinate their youth, and these efforts only grew after 7/7/7. There efforts to prevent this integration and to ensure the freedom* of their countries is where the groups name originally derived from: Vigilantia Aeterna. Once the Nazis began to play hardball and started to suppress the VA's efforts, anarchism began to creep into their rhetoric. For a time, VA was underground, a guerrilla group fighting oppression, and it was in this phase that they became far more radical, loathing all authority, and becoming the utter opposite of National Socialism, believing in the breaking down of linguistic and cultural borders, total deregulation of the market, and the weakening of any form of government. International Anarchist is a term the group wore with pride. Using brilliant scientific minds that had hidden away from the Nazis, eventually the VA created their own nuclear weapons and bioweapons, and, most importantly, a missile defense grid. Taking control of Pacific Rim, the Coalition of Free Peoples is the only state aside from under-industrialized Nazi vassals that can oppose the Weltreich. However, war only occurs through proxy, via terrorist groups in both nations, as total war could spell the end for all Mankind.

The flag uses gold and black, inverted to show their opposition to the Weltreich, with the VA's symbol prominent, itself inspired by the stars forced onto Jews during the Greater War, with Jewish intellectuals being founders of the organization. The 12 stars represent the 12 founders, red representing all lost in the battle against the Nazis, as well as rebellion. Black, as with the Weltreich stands for solidarity, but is paired with red to show the CFP's conviction in their resistance.
 
hey fellow(ish) vexillologists and flag lovers! around 3 weeks ago i posted a rather bad flag of Latvia which looked like this:
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and as many pointed out...that was not a good idea, so i created a re-design and i hope you all like it:
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Colors: red: 136-0-21
Symbolism: the red stands for, wait for it...THE BLOOD OF THOSE WHO FOUGHT FOR THEIR FREEDOM!!!...sorry i couldn't help my self, and the top left canton corner is the current Navel ensign and represents the Baltic Sea and the white represents the peace and prosperity of the nation after independence from the Soviet Union (USSR) in September 6th, 1991
Changes: as i said in the last one, the current flag looks to much like Austria's and even the symbolism and legend behind the flag is basically the same so i looked to change it, and the first time it didn't go so well so i decided to make a re-design and to me it turned out pretty well so i want to know your thoughts?

ok now, the next 3 in my "New World Flags" will be: Malaysia, Mauritius and Mexico and they will come out when i get home (if i remember) and as pre-usual in this series: I hope ya like!
 

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Changes: as i said in the last one, the current flag looks to much like Austria's and even the symbolism and legend behind the flag is basically the same so i looked to change it, and the first time it didn't go so well so i decided to make a re-design and to me it turned out pretty well so i want to know your thoughts?

Better, much better.
 
THE HELIX

Founded by former Imperial scientist, Gideon James Mercer (now known as “Lord Mercer” by his followers), the Helix came close to destroying the Empire during the Helix Wars (8742-8815), as part of their overall agenda to finish what their Fleshbender “gods” started 45 million years ago: the total eradication of the human race, and the transformation of the entire galaxy. After stumbling upon the arcane knowledge of the Fleshbender race’s dark science, Mercer fled to the Exile Reef – a region of space on the Imperial frontier, where various dissidents, fugitives, exiled noble houses and other rejects of the Empire had taken refuge. Here, he found fertile ground for recruitment – the scorned gravitated to Mercer’s promises of revenge against the Empire, and the desperate and downtrodden were intoxicated by his promises of power and immortality.

This banner was carried by the billions of twisted mutants who made up the Helix’s genocidal, black-clad legions (enhanced by gene therapies, surgeries, mutagens and performance-enhancing symbiotes – all products of Mercer’s knowledge of the dark arts of genetic engineering and nanotechnology), as they despoiled and depopulated entire star systems, “recycled” entire populations of innocent sophonts (humanid and otherwise) into grotesque new planetary ecosystems, and basically did to the Empire what the Japanese did to Nanking. The Empire actually had a numerical advantage over the Helix, but the average Helix trooper was far superior to the average Imperial soldier, and the Helix's extensive use of biological warfare further served as a force multiplier.

And even two thousand years after their defeat by the Empire, the Helix continues to curse the galaxy. Having retreated to their strongholds in the Exile Reef, Helix militants frequently pop up in Imperial space, mostly to cause as much havoc and chaos as possible, to distract the Imperials while Mercer searches for Fleshbender artifacts. And amongst the serfs and other downtrodden masses within the Empire, the Helix continues to attract followers. The Exile Reef itself has become a nightmarish realm where Mercer’s madness is law. All attempted Imperial expeditions to the Reef have ended in disaster, so the region will likely remain an open, rotting wound for the foreseeable future.

The flag’s symbolism is simple. The double helix represents the main tool with which the Helix destroys the old to birth the new; the red color of the double helix represents the bloodshed needed to achieve their goal. The white symbol is actually a stylized glyph of a Fleshbender (Eversorhominis tyrannus), the bygone alien gods of the Helix; its position over the double helix symbolizes Fleshbender dominion over all life, and the white color of the glyph on the flag’s black background is meant to evoke the splendor and power of the Fleshbenders across all of creation. The text on the flag is supposedly a message – a decree – that Mercer encountered while delving into the knowledge of his masters; it was apparently left behind millions of years ago for some sentient lifeform to find, and reads “destruction is the most divine means of creation”.

No two Helix flags looked the same. Many were made of cultured human flesh instead of cloth, with bio-luminescent organs arranged to serve as the symbols. Others were simply black rags with blood and bone dust smeared on them. Helix soldiers also had these symbols printed on the black uniforms and balaclavas that they wore – which often could barely contain their horrifyingly mutated forms, or were fused to their skin over time.
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Well, that's terrifying. Is this super-space-ISIS from another work of yours?

Indeed. Only instead of magical sky-daddies, the Helix worship actual beings with science that is easily confused with magic.

The setting in question is a large sci-fi setting that I've been working on called "M11", and is primarily set in the year 10583 AD. But to truly understand the Helix, you need to go back 45 million years ago. In the M11 timeline, we - Homo Sapiens - are actually the second incarnation of a far older species that also originated on Earth. These were the Precursors (cliche name, but hey, it works). They were identical to us in every way, and built a massive empire that spanned the entire galaxy. The Fleshbenders were passing through the Milky Way when they found this "First Empire", and were thoroughly pissed. The Fleshbenders had been on an eternal crusade through the cosmos to reshape everything they could find, and found the First Empire's terraforming activities to be a blasphemy. They totally destroyed the Precursors, and "recycled" the survivors into all manner of post-human wild animals, livestock, works of art, building materials, living tools and sex toys. Entire post-human ecosystems were created using Precursor matter. And the Fleshbenders even spent 10 million years painstakingly removing any trace of humanity from Earth, just as a final "fuck you". After ruling the Milky Way for many millions of years, the Fleshbenders left, and in the intervening eons between the fall of the First Empire and today, most of the post-human ecosystems collapsed. But some of them survived, and within that minority, a smaller minority even began the long evolutionary path to regaining sentience; these new people would come in all shapes and sizes, most of which wouldn't remotely resemble you or I. And something stranger happened: the Precursors suddenly began re-evolving on Earth, becoming, well, us. Now, flash forward to the 81st century. Gideon Mercer is a scientist attached to an expedition to one of the Third Empire's many, many worlds. He stumbles into a strange chamber in a Fleshbender pyramid (a mile tall, and made entirely out of diamond-hard blocks of human bone - the Fleshbenders left these things on every planet they visited, including Earth), and essentially gets his mind raped by a Fleshbender AI, which floods his brain with 0.1% of the Fleshbenders' total scientific knowledge. But that 0.1% essentially made him a sorcerer. And he started seeing things the way his new masters would. In addition to the legions of disenfranchised enemies of the Empire, he used his new knowledge to recruit some of the sub-god, kaiju-like organisms that the Fleshbenders used as beasts of war, and as he plundered Fleshbender sites in the Exile Reef, his knowledge increased and soon the sorcery analogies started becoming more and more literal.

The Helix then began replaying the same horrors that the Fleshbenders inflicted upon the Precursors. Though what the Fleshbenders did with a surgical scalpel, the Helix did with a rusty butcher's knife. They armed themselves with weapons that the Empire stopped using thousands of years ago, and cobbled together a massive fleet by weaponizing ramshackle civilian starships. When cornered or faced with imminent defeat, a Helix trooper would inject him/herself with a syringe full of mutagens that would cause their bodies to essentially become giant bombs that exploded with acidic blood and shards of bone shrapnel, or would transform them into beasts that rampaged until the ceaseless mutations became unsustainable. The Helix would often crucify their prisoners on four-armed Fleshbender-shaped crosses; the bones in the person's arms would be reduced to cartilage, wrapped around the top "wings" of the cross, and nailed to those "wings"; for the bottom two "wings", the victim would have their rib cage torn open, their lungs pulled out the back, and wrapped around the lower wings; a gene therapy would slowly cause the poor bastard's spine to fuse with the cross, until eventually removal would become impossible. And this would all happen to you if you were lucky.

So yeah, I put a lot of thought into making the Helix as terrifying as possible. I think a setting is only as interesting as its villains.
 
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But to truly understand the Helix, you need to go back 45 million years ago. In the M11 timeline, we - Homo Sapiens - are actually the second incarnation of a far older species that also originated on Earth. These were the Precursors (cliche name, but hey, it works). They were identical to us in every way, and built a massive empire that spanned the entire galaxy. The Fleshbenders were passing through the Milky Way when they found this "First Empire", and were thoroughly pissed. The Fleshbenders had been on an eternal crusade through the cosmos to reshape everything they could find, and found the First Empire's terraforming activities to be a blasphemy. They totally destroyed the Precursors, and "recycled" the survivors into all manner of post-human wild animals, livestock, works of art, building materials, living tools and sex toys. Entire post-human ecosystems were created using Precursor matter. And the Fleshbenders even spent 10 million years painstakingly removing any trace of humanity from Earth, just as a final "fuck you". After ruling the Milky Way for many millions of years, the Fleshbenders left, and in the intervening eons between the fall of the First Empire and today, most of the post-human ecosystems collapsed. But some of them survived, and within that minority, a smaller minority even began the long evolutionary path to regaining sentience; these new people would come in all shapes and sizes, most of which wouldn't remotely resemble you or I.

Have you ever read 'All Tomorrows' by Nemo Ramjet?
 
Second Byzantine Empire
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The Second Byzantine Empire was founded in Anno Domini 1619 during the Tenth Crusade after the liberation of Constantinople from the dying remnants of the Ottoman Empire. The Tenth Crusade was launched in 1611 by the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania and the Holy Roman Empire in response to the ongoing Ottoman Civil War so that the Turk and Islam could be driven out of Europe. The first Emperor was Maximilian von Hapsburg, former Archduke of Austria and brother of Emperor Mathias, Maximilian fought as a major leader during the liberation of Romania and led the recapture of Constantinople himself in 1618. Maximilian was crowned Emperor along with his wife Empress Olga Romanov. Together they would start the Byzantine Hapsburg Dynasty and would rebuild Eastern Rome into a glorious state that would defend the interests of both the Catholic and Orthodox Church. From The Sun Will Rise: Mary I of England has a Son.
 
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