Weekly Flag Challenge: Discussion & Entries
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The United States of the Internet
This was started by a community who wanted to make a fictional nation for their forum called the AHian Republic, after their forum AH.com. They started it in 2009. Through expansion to various other forums like CF.net and Betweentwowaves, it became the What-Iffian State, then through expansion to historical forums, then to all forums, becaming the Forumian Empire, after a "coup" by President Thande. Under the Emperor's guide the Forumian Empire grew to all websites but for search-engines, and through the massive money by some of its citizens, the search-engines was acquired. Thande himself was overthrew after the citizens blamed him for everything. The current President is Augustus Montes of the AHian Province. Through bribery and persuasion, it was agreed that the USI would become a recognized sovereign state.
The flag is designed to unite all Internetters. The blue represents modernity and the white represents the normal browser colour. The @ symbol is used everywhere, so it was used as the symbol.
This was started by a community who wanted to make a fictional nation for their forum called the AHian Republic, after their forum AH.com. They started it in 2009. Through expansion to various other forums like CF.net and Betweentwowaves, it became the What-Iffian State, then through expansion to historical forums, then to all forums, becaming the Forumian Empire, after a "coup" by President Thande. Under the Emperor's guide the Forumian Empire grew to all websites but for search-engines, and through the massive money by some of its citizens, the search-engines was acquired. Thande himself was overthrew after the citizens blamed him for everything. The current President is Augustus Montes of the AHian Province. Through bribery and persuasion, it was agreed that the USI would become a recognized sovereign state.
The flag is designed to unite all Internetters. The blue represents modernity and the white represents the normal browser colour. The @ symbol is used everywhere, so it was used as the symbol.
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*whistles* I am a benevolent dictator there...You semi-stole my idea! And it is a self-insertion fic
OK, I need someone to volunteer for the position of President of the United States of the Internet.
Yes, thank you. When I saved the image as a png it never showed the pickaxe!
Cool
Yep, you're in charge of the voting poll too.
Usually people try to fit all the flags and expo onto a single image too but that might not be possible in this case so putting each into a separate post under the poll is ok.
And remember to anonymise the flags in the poll - so Flag #1 not PosterX's Flag
Sure, that counts. But it doesn't need to have a specifically personal symbol on it. Everyone associates the swastika with Hitler's cult of personality, to pick an easy example, but it doesn't represent only Hitler. The green flag is another good example: it's supposed to represent Libya, but it's deeply associated with Gadhafi's regime. All that a flag needs to qualify is to represent some kind of personal cult.
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I might as well be first then
Standard of the Marshal of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Brief History of the Marshal:
Josip “the Marshal” Simovic, an ATL protégé of Josip “Tito” Broz, rises high in the League of Communists of Yugoslavia; following the 1974 Constitution when Tito was proclaimed President for Life of the collective Presidency of the Republic, Simovic replaced him as Marshal. On Tito’s death in 1980 he was offered the position as sole President of the SFRY but publicly declined to change the constitution gaining him cult status throughout the country.
His role as 8th Chairman of the League and Marshal kept him prominent in the collective Presidency of the Republic throughout the 80s and the early 90s [OTL the Chairman was removed from the Presidency c88] and indeed enabled him to act as de facto President.
The Marshal continued the policies of Tito in the Cold War in maintaining the Non-Aligned Movement and furthered Yugoslav federal unity with the establishment of the Socialist Republics of Vojvodina and Kosovo; he was often held personally responsible by the Yugoslav media for the ousting of Nicolae Ceaușescu of Romania, Todor Zhivkov of Bulgaria, and Enver Hoxha of Albania in the Purple Revolutions [ATL term for Velvet Revolutions in the Balkans]. Though not personally responsible he was instrumental in the subsequent Balkan Economic Alliance with Bulgaria and Albania that resulted in the brief Socialist Balkan Federation in 1993.
Marshal Simovic’s death in 1998 led to heightened ethnic tensions that threatened civil war. Though this is currently avoided it did end in the dissolution of the Balkan Federation.
The Standard:
The Standard is essentially a modification of the Standard of Members of the Presidency.
It maintains the arms but imposed on a red background (from the League of Communists flag) with the red star replaced by a white on purple star to represent the Order of Yugoslavia awarded to the Marshal in 1977 (incidentally alluding to the Purple Revolutions). Prior to 1988 it was unofficial with the Marshal using the separate flags of the League and Members of the Presidency but with the constitutional changes under the Marshal’s “Purple Communism” it was officially adopted as his Standard.
Standard of the Marshal of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Brief History of the Marshal:
Josip “the Marshal” Simovic, an ATL protégé of Josip “Tito” Broz, rises high in the League of Communists of Yugoslavia; following the 1974 Constitution when Tito was proclaimed President for Life of the collective Presidency of the Republic, Simovic replaced him as Marshal. On Tito’s death in 1980 he was offered the position as sole President of the SFRY but publicly declined to change the constitution gaining him cult status throughout the country.
His role as 8th Chairman of the League and Marshal kept him prominent in the collective Presidency of the Republic throughout the 80s and the early 90s [OTL the Chairman was removed from the Presidency c88] and indeed enabled him to act as de facto President.
The Marshal continued the policies of Tito in the Cold War in maintaining the Non-Aligned Movement and furthered Yugoslav federal unity with the establishment of the Socialist Republics of Vojvodina and Kosovo; he was often held personally responsible by the Yugoslav media for the ousting of Nicolae Ceaușescu of Romania, Todor Zhivkov of Bulgaria, and Enver Hoxha of Albania in the Purple Revolutions [ATL term for Velvet Revolutions in the Balkans]. Though not personally responsible he was instrumental in the subsequent Balkan Economic Alliance with Bulgaria and Albania that resulted in the brief Socialist Balkan Federation in 1993.
Marshal Simovic’s death in 1998 led to heightened ethnic tensions that threatened civil war. Though this is currently avoided it did end in the dissolution of the Balkan Federation.
The Standard:
The Standard is essentially a modification of the Standard of Members of the Presidency.
It maintains the arms but imposed on a red background (from the League of Communists flag) with the red star replaced by a white on purple star to represent the Order of Yugoslavia awarded to the Marshal in 1977 (incidentally alluding to the Purple Revolutions). Prior to 1988 it was unofficial with the Marshal using the separate flags of the League and Members of the Presidency but with the constitutional changes under the Marshal’s “Purple Communism” it was officially adopted as his Standard.
I don't know what it is, but my challenges never seem to draw entries. Let's see those personal cults, people!
They're just lulling me into a false state of security.
Seriously though, it's probably just that your Challenges require a little thinking time for the response to seem believable. I already had the Tito's successor idea in my head when I saw the FC so just required a little tweaking to get the flag right.
I actually had the idea fleshed out and the flag made the first night you posted the challenge. I've just been lazy and have procrastinated typing out exactly why the Mexiçotl Republic is so gaga over the half-Nahua illegitimate grandson of Joseph Bonaparte.
When is the deadline? I have an idea, but woun't have it finished until tomorrow afternoon.