Weekly Flag Challenge: Discussion & Entries

Lenapè Achimulsëwakàn Kèkayëmhès (Lenapi Republican Government)

An interesting Earth from universe Kappa-94-Up-Purple in the Chinese chronosector has the fleets of Zheng He bring eastern Eurasian culture and technology to the Americas before the western Eurasians had in our own universe. This discovery would also have the effect of China sending out more fleets, not just across the Pacific, but into the Indian Ocean as well. Here they would establish trading sites within the local nations. This would have the effect of holding off the Europeans from traveling to the Americas until 1534 by our chrono calendar. Since it was much easier to conduct trade with eastern Eurasia at the trading centers established in the Red Sea, especially in the Sinai region of Egypt at this time period.

Meanwhile, this meant the Native American Peoples, to be called the Yǔshaan Peoples as many Chinese came to believe the lands they discovered were the castaways from the Time of the Great Floods, were left to their own devices for the most part. Chinese traders, soldiers, and monks would come to the western coast of Yǔshaan spreading new ideas and goods to the native Yǔshaan Peoples. While medical technology of the time would spread throughout the continent, it was not as fast as the spread of diseases they brought over from eastern Eurasia. What did help was the Eastern Eurasians did not immediately, or in any coherent fashion, colonize Yǔshaan. This gave the native Yǔshaan Peoples time to build up immunities. The more advanced medical knowledge of the Chinese would also greatly facilitate this.

One Yǔshaan nation that would benefit from this is the Lenapi Republican Government. The native Yǔshaan Peoples in the location of our Canadian Provinces were devastated by the diseases that were brought over by the Eastern Eurasians. This caused much strife between many of the tribes and nations of the area, with several moving south into the Haudenosaunee territory, who themselves were dealing with many of the same issues. Eventually these migrating northern Yǔshaan tribes would settle in the area of the Lenape. Which was good fortune for them as it was concurrent with the arrival of many monks, folk practioners, and Confucian scholars traveling the lands of Yǔshaan. These men provided the Lenape with better medical and agriculture knowledge, which helped the Lenape grow more food and the scholars helped to stop conflict between the Lenape and the migrating tribes…

Flag: The Lenapi Republican Government flag is based on the folk belief that a Confucian scholar, He Heawassanock, came to the Lenapi and taught them the concept of Qi, the belief of a vital force forming part of any living entity represented as a vapor or wind. To get this concept across, He used two arrows, a pipe, and an ear of xaskwim (maize) to form the traditional Chinese character for qi. As He told the story he merged it with the Lenape folk story of Kahesana Xaskwim, Mother Corn. The field is brown representing the earth spread upon the Turtle for the people to live upon. The flag has the qi formed by the items He used and is set in the center of the flag. On both the left and right sides of the flag are little kahesana xaskwim figures representing the growth of corn further placing forth the idea of the energy of life that is given by mothers.
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*I'm sorry if I truly butchered any of the languages I used in this posting. Whether it is Chinese, Lenape, or my native English language.
 
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Flag Challenge 260: Let Your Freak Flag Fly!

Have another nifty future history challenge, this one inspired by Transmetropolitan! Because the times they are a changin' and social attitudes with them your challenge is to create a pride flag for some future ethnic group or social minority. Maybe it's something too small scale or cutting edge now to have a cohesive identity to rally around or maybe it's some wacky scifi thing that can only spring up in the coming future? I leave it up to you all, but for the sake of propriety and good taste please value interesting design and backstory over some desire to shock and offend your fellow members- I don't feel most people here need to be told this but I want to make sure all the bases are covered. All that fussiness out of the way just have fun and try to give it your all!

Submissions Open: Now
Submissions Close: Monday, December 20, 10:30 PM Central Standard Time Extended to that same time Friday if there aren't at least 3 entries by Monday, with the option to extend it past the holiday if necessary

Please remember to review the RULES, especially concerning flag size. For an image in a single-flag entry, the shortest side must be 600 pixels or less, and the longest side must be 1200 pixels or less.
 
CONGRATULATIONS to Born in the USSA for winning this week's challenge!

Apologies for the delay and a big thank you to BitUSSA for charging ahead with the new challenge!
 
CONGRATULATIONS to Born in the USSA for winning this week's challenge!

Apologies for the delay and a big thank you to BitUSSA for charging ahead with the new challenge!
No worries I just wanted to get this one rolling since people will be busy with the holiday before too long
 
If anybody's having trouble coming up with ideas here are some avenues I considered when I came up with the challenge:
  1. Generational conflict gets so bad they're marching in the streets
  2. AI or uplifted animals really want their rights you guys
  3. The poly community (or some other sexual minority*) wants to crusade against social stigma.
*Nothing sordid, of course. If anyone tried to put forward like a pederasty flag or something gross I won't include it in the poll. I'm leaving this thing pretty open but there are certain things that are and should remain unacceptable.
 
"What Once Was Dead Shall Live Once More": The Rise of Neo-Orphism
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Neo-Orphism is a eclectic neo-pagan movement that grew to power in the later 2020s. It's rise can be traced to the various climate accidents of the 2020s including the 2023 Gulf Coast Floods, Hurricane Lucio in 2025, and the 2028 Midwest Tornado Season. Various doomsday cults rose during this time, the Millenarianist Church of Dixie, the Sovereign Order of the Xanthic King, Gaia Liberation Army, the Atlantean Esoteric Society, the Order of Knights of the Barracks of Saint Daniel of Jerusalem and Babylon, and the Children of Thanos. Neo-Orphism was originally seen as a doomsday cult, but it eventually grew into a religion that now has a large amount of converts in the nations of Cascadia, Canada, the United States, Mexico, Spain, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Panama, and Cuba.

Theologically, Neo-Orphic adherents believe that death and rebirth are a natural part of life. To this end, follows appeal to the psychopomps (Hermes, Orpheus, Anubis, Charon, Valkyrie, and Saint Peter) to take them to the afterlife and into the Court of the Zagreus (Zagreus decides where you end up in the postressurected world, judging you for your life and deciding what you will be reborn.) and they appeal to the Gods of Death and Rebirth in his court, including Osiris, Persephone, Hades, Jesus, Dionysus, and Baldr, to appeal to Zagreus' judgement.

Neo-Orphism is actively suppressed in various nations around the world, including in the People's Republic of China, Italy, Grece, Turkey, Kurdistan, South Africa, Hungary, the United States, the Nordic Union, Greenland, the Vatican City, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Russia.

The chief "rival" of Neo-Orphism is Ragnarökism, which is a Norse Neo-Pagan religion that has most of its adherents in the Scandinavian nations and worships Baldr, Hoenir, Magni, Modi, Njord, Vidar, Vali, and Hod. It believes that the world is in a Post-Ragnarök state and the people of the world must act accordingly.

The flag of Neo-Orphism contains four colors. The Purple represents the Court of Zagreus, the Red represents the blood of those who are being reborn, the Black represents death, and the White represents life. The harp represents the psychopomps that bring the living to be reborn.
 
The Natural Born Alliance is a protest group calling for the banning of artificial uteruses and similar in vitro devices designed to alleviate or replace in vivo pregnancy. They are often pejoratively named "wombies" or "wombles", but prefer terms such as "wombborn", "InVivists", etc. Some extremists have taken to bombing shipments from the lunar factories, once shutting down the Kennedy Elevator for 2 weeks and causing the unacceptable deaths of 15 human, 17 gelf, and 51 robot workers. This severely hampered the political ambitions of the group; Tycho Crater, with its large robot population, has even added the group to its terrorist list.
The group has often been accused of having anti-gelf opinions, partly due to the reliance of the various gelf clans on in vitro reproduction, and anti-robot opinions due to the NBAs focus on human reproduction. These accusations are strongly denied by the current leadership however a large minority of the organisations included in the NBA also wish to ban any geneering in general as being unnatural.

The Flag
The base is a horizontal triband of black, orange, and yellow, a condensing of the original spectrum of human skin tones.
Upon the flag are two green rings, one inside the other: the symbol of the NBA representing both people within the human womb and within the Earth.
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Still holding out hope for at least one more! In the interest of robust participation and giving people some time for the holiday I'm leaving this open through the end of the month!
 
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The year is 2362. The lunar surface was colonized by the United Nations in the late 21st century under a charter that specified the moon would be used as a research base and staging center for extra-planetary exploration. After several decades, mineral deposits vital to the production of extra-planetary propulsion were discovered below the lunar surface. With this discovery private corporations began their own settlements and the original charter was abandoned by the most powerful and influential members of the UN in a race to lay claim to these resources.

Much like the colonization on Earth, governing these settlements proved to be exceedingly challenging. By the early 2200’s no Earthly nation held power over any of the lunar settlements. Several of the privately held colonies severed ties with all but the most brutal of government regimes of Earth. These companies employed mercenaries for security and operated lunar penal colonies for those nations they were helping enrich. Unlike the penal colonies of the past on Earth there were no revolts or revolutions for basic rights and self-governance primarily because life on the lunar surface led to considerably shorter lifespans and a weaker people due to the low gravity environment. Security personnel did not suffer such deterioration since they rotated to Earth before the low gravity environment impacted them.

The people on these lunar penal colonies began referring to themselves as Lupens and developed their own cultures. They began to fly the Lupen flag and it was a symbol of deep pride. In fact, cities on Earth and Martian colonies began to see Lupen flags fly as small numbers of colonists won their freedom and traveled to Earth or Mars to live very different lives than those on the moon.

The flag consists of a black field representing the lunar sky.
The “young” waxing crescent represents birth and the “old” waning crescent represents death.
The red sand drained in the blue hourglass represents the short life of the Lupens in service to their Earthly overlords.
 
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The year is 2362. The lunar surface was colonized by the United Nations in the late 21st century under a charter that specified the moon would be used as a research base and staging center for extra-planetary exploration. After several decades, mineral deposits vital to the production of extra-planetary propulsion were discovered below the lunar surface. With this discovery private corporations began their own settlements and the original charter was abandoned by the most powerful and influential members of the UN in a race to lay claim to these resources.

Much like the colonization on Earth, governing these settlements proved to be exceedingly challenging. By the early 2200’s no Earthly nation held power over any of the lunar settlements. Several of the privately held colonies severed ties with all but the most brutal of government regimes of Earth. These companies employed mercenaries for security and operated lunar penal colonies for those nations they were helping enrich. Unlike the penal colonies of the past on Earth there were no revolts or revolutions for basic rights and self-governance primarily because life on the lunar surface led to considerably shorter lifespans and a weaker people due to the low gravity environment. Security personnel did not suffer such deterioration since they rotated to Earth before the low gravity environment impacted them.

The people on these lunar penal colonies began referring to themselves as Lupens and developed their own cultures. They began to fly the Lupen flag and it was a symbol of deep pride. In fact, cities on Earth and Martian colonies began to see Lupen flags fly as small numbers of colonists won their freedom and traveled to Earth or Mars to live very different lives than those on the moon.

The flag consists of a black field representing the lunar sky.
The “young” waxing crescent represents birth and the “old” waxing crescent represents death.
The red sand drained in the blue hourglass represents the short life of the Lupens in service to their Earthly overlords.
I'm into it! Two more days on the clock if anyone else has one they're cooking up!
 
Poll is up! I gave it a week so the winner doesn't have to come up with something during the first week of the new year

Flag Challenge 260: Let Your Freak Flag Fly!- Voting

Have another nifty future history challenge, this one inspired by Transmetropolitan! Because the times they are a changin' and social attitudes with them your challenge is to create a pride flag for some future ethnic group or social minority. Maybe it's something too small scale or cutting edge now to have a cohesive identity to rally around or maybe it's some wacky scifi thing that can only spring up in the coming future? I leave it up to you all, but for the sake of propriety and good taste please value interesting design and backstory over some desire to shock and offend your fellow members- I don't feel most people here need to be told this but I want to make sure all the bases are covered. All that fussiness out of the way just have fun and try to give it your all!
 
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