I'm not 100% happy with the design yet (hence why I was asking in the other thread!) but I mocked this up for a timeline that may or may not go anywhere, with a quintuple monarchy uniting Catholic southern Germany and Austria-Hungary under the Habsburgs. I borrowed the coat of arms from wikimedia and then tried to measure out the sub-flags. The large red stripe represents Austria, the green is Hungary, the light blue is Bavaria, the yellow is Lothringen (Lorraine), and the deep blue is Croatia. I'm very much open to suggests on how to make this better or for better ideas on how to incorporate these states vexillologically!
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Doesn't quite work for me.
Also relegates Hungary to an Austrian vassal on par with Lorraine which won't sit well. Why not use the full Dual Monarchy arms on a purple triband?
Something more akin to this version? (Emblem again off wiki) Or were you thinking the side-by-side version from the very last days of the Empire?
I'd allow the arms to overlap the purple.
How the arms appears depends on whether your POD is after the Dual Monarchy set up or before.
Think how and when your state forms.
Look at the flags and arms of that period and how and why they changed.
Thanks for the advice; off to do some heraldry research to see if I can improve on the design!
I don't think VI would much appreciate being represented by East Samoa's emblems.And here, an alternate flag of a US state of Porto Rico (Virgin Islands included):
In my TL, East Samoa belong to Hawaii, so the Eagle may be reported to others territories... Am I right no?
A Russia that embraces communism or socialism but also nationalism.
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Flag (colours taken from coat of arms)
The modified imperial eagle, featuring no crowns and holding the hammer and sickle.
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Flag (colours taken from coat of arms)
The modified imperial eagle, featuring no crowns and holding the hammer and sickle.
But I'll remove Saint George. This TL'russians may be nationalist, but are always communist.A Russia that embraces communism or socialism but also nationalism.
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Flag (colours taken from coat of arms)
The modified imperial eagle, featuring no crowns and holding the hammer and sickle.
Good point, but it'd be hard for me to remove it and still have it look good, my editing skills aren't that good.
Japanese New Zealand (based on the Maori flag)
Flag of Japanese America. The three flowers represent the three original colonies (Aleutian Islands, Nootka Sound, and San Francisco Bay).
I was going to suggest just using Inkscape to open the original vector and remove the shield object entirely, but then I tried that myself and learned that there's actually nothing beneath it on the eagle; just a black void. Guess it makes sense to cut corners when something isn't intended to be shown.
And now, this is a regional flag of a French Mauritius (île de France):
-the blue symbolizes the sky and the Indian Ocean
-the green symbolizes vegetation and hope
-the black symbolizes the period of slavery
-the white triangle symbolizes the Mont Piton
-the five-pointed yellow star symbolizes the people of many ethnics who came to establish in the island
-the blue symbolizes the sky and the Indian Ocean
-the green symbolizes vegetation and hope
-the black symbolizes the period of slavery
-the white triangle symbolizes the Mont Piton
-the five-pointed yellow star symbolizes the people of many ethnics who came to establish in the island
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