That's a strange choice or colors.
Can i ask why purple?
Two reasons actually: Firstly it's associated with Royalty, and secondly, because it's a colour rarely seen on a flag.
That's a strange choice or colors.
Can i ask why purple?
Nice assortment! I assume Mary I having an heir with Phillip is the PoD?
It seems like Argentina is a Canada analogue in this TL, which is interesting.
Rather hard as the sun symbol suggests 1800s but the dominance of English over Scottish Arms suggests no Stuart inheritance so has to be late 16th.Thanks.
You can pretty much take a wild guess as to the PoD.
Rather hard as the sun symbol suggests 1800s but the dominance of English over Scottish Arms suggests no Stuart inheritance so has to be late 16th.
Better than your original, though I prefer the OTL one as the waves accent around the sun.First flag here: the West Indies Federation, which was a short-lived union of British Caribbean colonies from 1958 to 1962. This is technically just an update on an older version I made a long time ago, so I wouldn't really call it 'new'.
I do prefer the otl one with its curvier letters. Sorry!On the same note, the next flag here is for the Caribbean Community, a supranational organization meant to foster economic integration and cooperation among its members across the Caribbean. Again, I had an older version of this flag, but I decided to replace it with a new one that was more accurate to the IRL flag.
Very nice!To complete the Caribbean theme, here's a flag for a Caribbean Union, in which (almost) all of the Caribbean islands are united under a single government (excluding Cuba and Hispaniola); you can assume that it's an ATL evolution/merger of both the West Indies Federation and the Caribbean Community. And again, this is an older flag of mine, a copy of a design I found somewhere but can't remember where, but it's such a good design that it didn't really need any changes made to it.
Yeah, I agree.Moving across the pond for a little bit, here's a recreation of the original proposal for the Republic of Nigeria's flag, before the contest judges removed the sun badge on it to get the Nigerian flag that we see today. I have no idea why they removed it, as it gave the flag a bit of character and flavor that made it stand out from the designs of its neighbors.
Much better!Further west from Nigeria, here's my take on the flag of the Central African Empire under the rule of 'Emperor' Bokassa I... well, technically, it was his 'Imperial Standard' but who's going to fuss about that detail? Besides, Bokassa's original design is... well... not really good. It's not horrible, truthfully, but it feels kinda lazily done, with both the eagle and the sun sharing the same yellow color with only a black outline distinguishing the eagle from the sun behind it... yeah, it had something going for it, but flubbed it with the lack of colors. Hence, why I dropped the black outlines and replaced them with a red disc to break up the yellow.
I'd lighten the blue stripe for better contrast with the red and green.Going south to the Congo Basin, here's my take on the People's Republic of the Congo - and to be clear, this is Congo-Brazzaville, not Congo-Kinshasa... well, according to OTL, anyways: my personal alt-history map has both the RotC and the DRotC merged together as one United Republic of the Congo (plus the Central African Republic/Empire and several other Equatorial Africa states), so there really isn't much of a difference to be had here, hence my addition of the green-blue diagonal band to make that clear.
I do prefer the otl one with its curvier letters. Sorry!
I'd lighten the blue stripe for better contrast with the red and green.
An alternative was making the eagle black.
My iffy entry:
The European Union - Confederation and Association
The exit of the United Kingdom from the then European Union had a cascade effect on inter-European politics. 75 years later there are now 2 parts to the European Integration Project - the core Confederate Members of the European Union and the peripheral Associate Members of the European Union.
The core Confederation, commonly called the European Union following the late US President Beavis's jokes about "the Confederacy", exists as a federal political union with a common currency, parliament, security force, etc.
The Associate Members are grouped in a series of Associations each having varying levels of integrated services with the EU core. These are the Atlantic Association, Mediterranean Association, Northern (or Baltic-Nordic) Association, and the Eastern Association.
The general EU flag remains but a new one created for each Association and the Confederation.
The EU Confederal Flag was inspired by the historical imperial flags of Europe, specifically France and the Holy Roman Empire, due to its resemblance to a larger Frankish Empire.
It is composed of a two headed eagle representative of the past and the future, each talon clutches a lightning bolt to symbolise the energy and zeal of the Project and the willingness to defend it. Upon the chest is a shield bearing the EU circle of stars. All is in EU colours of gold and blue.
You should know how it goes by now: more flags to present, yadda yadda:
First flag here: the West Indies Federation, which was a short-lived union of British Caribbean colonies from 1958 to 1962. This is technically just an update on an older version I made a long time ago, so I wouldn't really call it 'new'.
On the same note, the next flag here is for the Caribbean Community, a supranational organization meant to foster economic integration and cooperation among its members across the Caribbean. Again, I had an older version of this flag, but I decided to replace it with a new one that was more accurate to the IRL flag.
To complete the Caribbean theme, here's a flag for a Caribbean Union, in which (almost) all of the Caribbean islands are united under a single government (excluding Cuba and Hispaniola); you can assume that it's an ATL evolution/merger of both the West Indies Federation and the Caribbean Community. And again, this is an older flag of mine, a copy of a design I found somewhere but can't remember where, but it's such a good design that it didn't really need any changes made to it.
Moving across the pond for a little bit, here's a recreation of the original proposal for the Republic of Nigeria's flag, before the contest judges removed the sun badge on it to get the Nigerian flag that we see today. I have no idea why they removed it, as it gave the flag a bit of character and flavor that made it stand out from the designs of its neighbors.
Further west from Nigeria, here's my take on the flag of the Central African Empire under the rule of 'Emperor' Bokassa I... well, technically, it was his 'Imperial Standard' but who's going to fuss about that detail? Besides, Bokassa's original design is... well... not really good. It's not horrible, truthfully, but it feels kinda lazily done, with both the eagle and the sun sharing the same yellow color with only a black outline distinguishing the eagle from the sun behind it... yeah, it had something going for it, but flubbed it with the lack of colors. Hence, why I dropped the black outlines and replaced them with a red disc to break up the yellow.
Going south to the Congo Basin, here's my take on the People's Republic of the Congo - and to be clear, this is Congo-Brazzaville, not Congo-Kinshasa... well, according to OTL, anyways: my personal alt-history map has both the RotC and the DRotC merged together as one United Republic of the Congo (plus the Central African Republic/Empire and several other Equatorial Africa states), so there really isn't much of a difference to be had here, hence my addition of the green-blue diagonal band to make that clear.
Now the difficult part for me is figuring out how to merge together the eclectic political histories of the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Central African Republic into one coherent timeline...
Anyways, that's all for now. Until next time!