Any queries about the challenge? Or is it clear enough?
And for those new to this thread the Rules can be found on page 1.
And for those new to this thread the Rules can be found on page 1.
Er, there's only one official challenge, created by the previous challenge's winner. The Professor posted his for the week on this page; it's the quoted block of text
You're right. Wrong thread. Sorry.
I have no idea where you had this stored, but thanks a ton !
They're thumbnails. On our wiki, you can click any thumbnail to enlarge it. And keep clicking until you get to the source file. (Same principle as on Wikipedia and so on.)
I've experimented with larger thumbnails, but the more leeway I gave them, the more horrible it started to look. The tables started feeling overwhelming and adding unintentionally to the length of the whole page.
I've thought about that, but it would be too much of a hassle to move everything and to rework the table in order to include the voting threads and whatnot.
I'm afraid I'm not going to change that.
HerrWasser said:Flag Challenge #173: Freedom is Slavery
Design a flag for a totalitarian, 1984-esque, one-party state of the dystopia. It can arise from a form of communism,
fascism, or some other ideology that existed somewhere in history or in some alternate timeline. A detailed history
of your totalitarian experiment is recommended, although it is not required.
P.S. You are free to create a flag for a pre-existing dystopia, as long as it has no official flag already.
Submissions Open: Now
Submissions Close: 17th September, 2017
Voting Closes: 24th September, 2017
This reminds me of that weird thread about "dirigism" that popped up a few months ago and was parodied by RVBOmally.The Republic of Mankind Ascendant
Die Republik der Übermenchheit
Reipublicae Homines Excultus
"In 1889 Friedrich Nietzsche suffered a collapse. Having faced several before and ultimately perishing after more in 1902, this fact is often glossed over by historians. However, we who have studied Nietzsche note that it was following this that his writings saw a shift in their tone. Will to Power and The Ascension were far more aggressive and revolutionary than the others before it, and far more political, The Ascension outright outlining how a state could be created that would ensure the creation of the overman, and Will to Power critiquing modern political systems as a primary fault for mankind's lack of progress. As economic turmoil weakened the German state, Nietzche's new writings fed the discontentment, and grew in popularity before simmering back down, though various Neitzschean groups would come to mark the political sphere, drawing disillusioned Marxists as well. And of course, the trend would only rise further with the failure of the Reich to secure victory in the Great War..."
- Nietzsche: Study of a Madman by Mark J. Stuart, 2003 documentary"We shall rise! We shall throw off the slave morality that yokes us, we shall rise above nations, above faith, above ideology. We shall form new morals and beliefs based upon our own will to power! The pursuit of glory shall be our quest, and ambition shall be our guide! And on this day we will end the foolish human order that keeps us restrained, that attempts to smother us as a mass, that attempts to drive us all to nihilistic mayhem by refusing to know the death of God before it is too late! We shall build a new order for us, mankind ascendant, we overmen! We shall build a global nation that will determine its own existence, that shall end the long night and discover purpose without divine presence. We will forge this nation, forge ourselves, into something greater than any mortal has ever known! Our hammers of will shall take iron and blood and shall beat it against an anvil of comprehension, crafting a blade of revolution that will cut away the last of the slave states!"
- The Forge Speech, Herman Müller, 1933"Life in the Republic of Mankind Ascendant, or simply 'the Republic', as its inhabitants know it, is an enigmatic place. No outsiders, 'slaves' and 'untermensch' as they call us, are allowed in unless one can prove devotion to the cause of revolution and belief in Nietzchean Ascensionism, a task that no spy has successfully done, and thus our only knowledge comes from defectors and the few aerial missions that have not been shot down. These things we do know: their indoctrination of the youth is total, educating that they, the overmen, Homo excultus, are a mentally evolved species that has come above humanity, that while physically the same, they are superior in nearly all ways, given that their moral system has meant that science is pushed further through inhumane testing, supposedly resulting in a healthier and stronger people. Enlistment in the military is required, but as the military regime physically monitors and officially owns all forms of business, be that legal, medical, recreational, or even artistic, it is better to say that all citizens are part of the military, or that the military is itself the state. Regardless of profession, however, all citizens learn combat skills to a degree most nations would rule as elite, and defectors have claimed that all citizens pass one final test in the execution of a traitor, or a voluntary suicider who they are told is a traitor. This test acts as a form of graduation, and graduates are normally in the age range of sixteen to nineteen depending on natural abilities. It is at that point that education in other fields is opened, the trainees picking hobbies those studies will align with to focus on for their free time. Due to this, obedience is high, and even most defectors are advanced in age, when their zealotry begins to fade. Children betraying or even executing parents that stray beyond the demarcation of cynical and traitorous, and even occasionally the inverse, is not unknown, especially if the state wishes to test their loyalty as proof that the parent or child did not influence them. Given that the state's purpose is to ensure the ascension of all, monitoring of each and every citizen is constant, with cameras and listening devices in every home and vehicle, though their laws are few beyond the 'absolute moral truths' that their 'overman perspective' creates, namely the illegalization of murder, theft, permanent injury, and treason to the state, both politically and ideologically. However various acts of assault, rape, and harassment, are entirely legal, even to children. Some, of course, would note that such things would permanently harm a child, at least psychologically, but the ascensionists believe that, while a child is given more protections, sparing children from all harm would only weaken them and hinder their development of their own morality, values, and purpose. This is, of course, one of many cases where the regime has taken its own radical applications of Nietzchean ideology on topics and concept the man himself never wrote of. Most nations, especially Forrenzist ones that possess morality police, would find the Republic a disgusting place as the aforementioned laws create a place where sadomasochism, pornography (including of minors), blood sport, and drug abuse are rampant, and envy and jealousy are almost encouraged as all attempt to gain as much personal power as they can, without endangering the state. Mental analysis of defectors have found nearly all to have developed into sociopaths, and even decades after leaving, sociopathic tendencies remain."
- The Forge is Hell, by Amber O'Connor, 2011"A river of fiery will shall carve the path of truth in the long night of nihilism. It's guiding star is the hammer, blade, and anvil, representing the self-driven rebirth of mankind as the overmen."
- Department of Artistic Endeavors, official statement on the meaning of the Republic's flag
This reminds me of that weird thread about "dirigism" that popped up a few months ago and was parodied by RVBOmally.
Thiudiska Rikijan
The 19th century saw the rise of Pan-Germanicism across Europe. Among Pan-Germanicists, there was a growing interest in studying the Proto-Germanic language in an attempt at reviving it, which was accomplished by the turn of the century through comparative linguistics, helped along with funding from wealthy Pan-Germanicists. With the revival of the Proto-Germanic language, called Thiudiska ("Thedish", from the old Germanic word for people or nation), many followers of the greater Pan-Germanic movement across Europe formed communities where Thiudiska was the lone language spoken. The goal being to develop it as a language suitable for daily use, such as in newspapers, books, government etc. A comparison can be made with the revival of Hebrew in OTL and the early Israeli community in Palestine formed by Zionists.
A fascinating flag with an equally fascinating story, well done!
Updated the Novist Flag to fit the black=totalitarian theme
Oh, and reminders that flags should be within 400x800px!