Weekly Flag Challenge: Discussion & Entries

[Akkismat]

OPTION C: THE COMMONWEALTH OF SUMMERSET


History:

The English colonization of South America started with the establishments of several companies at the beginning of the 17th century with the sole tasks of establishing settlements and starting up trade.

One of these colonies was the town of New Leicester, which was to become the most important trading haven for goods for and from Europe, Africa and even Asia.

After the unification of all territories of the different charter companies into the United West Indian Company (UWIC) around 1720, the city of New Leicester became the new capital of all the South American territories. After 34 years the UWIC was disbanded and all the territories were handed over to the Crown of England.

After the different French Wars (1767-1804) the English ceded considerable territories in South America to the French and Portuguese, but they were able to hold on to their core colonies of New Albion (capital Henrytown), Pennshire (capital Gouldinghill) and Summerset (capital New Leicester).

In the 19th century these colonies became independant Dominions within the English Empire, but retained the English Emperor as monarch.

Eventually only the Commonwealth of Summerset would hold on to tight relations with the English Empire, as the Dominions of New Albion and Pennshire would become Socialist Republics in the 20th century, denouncing the English Emperor as monarch.

Today the Commonwealth of Summerset is the economical powerhouse of South-America and politically it is slowly coming out of England’s shadow, as it is gaining more and more prestige on the global political theatre.

Description:

The official state flag of Summerset is a combination of the flag of the English Empire and it’s own civil flag. This civil flag has a green border and a green cross (of Saint Lazarus) with in the middle the minor Coat of Arms of Summerset.

Symbolism:
Green cross of Summerset: Stands for the Saint Lazarus’ Cross in acknowledgment of the Serene Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of the Holy Lands, who was crucial for the survival of the early settlements in South America.

Red Cross of the English Empire: Stands for the Saint George’s Cross of England.

Red Crown of the English Empire: This Imperial Crown was attached to the old flag of England when the English Empire was proclaimed by King Henry IX (Emperor Henry I Braveheart).

Minor Coat of Arms of Summerset: The CoA displays the Golden Rose, a native yellow rose of South America, which is the national symbol of Summerset.

Flag Ratio

-1:3

 

[Iserlohn]

OPTION A: Reino de Pamtico

The area today part of the Kingdom of Pamtico was originally settled by Spain and called Pamtico Colony (named after a native tribe in the south of the colony) and remained one of the most loyal Spanish colonies until the end of the Third World War, which raged from 1903 to 1909. After the war an enthusiastic independence movement arose in the few remaining Spanish colonies, including Pamtico.

The revolution, led by the Andrónico Zamora Orellana, ultimately succeded, Pamtico was independent and crowned Andrónico Zamora Orellana as the first king of the young nation, taking the regal name of Sancho I of Pamtico and forming the Orellana dynasty.

While the first flag was inspired by the Spanish merchant flag the Pamtico adopted a new flag in 1964 after a long debate.



Symbolism:

The two blue bars for the rivers (left) and the Atlantic (right) as well as royality, beige for the cotton (an important Pamtico export good) and the compass rose, showing the past as a colony as well as the strong maritime tradition they have themselves.

 

[Sovereign12]

Country C

The Republic of Southumbria was initially a bit of a joke. When Amerigo Vespucci was exploring the southern continent of the New World he had discovered the river and named it after St Francis (São Francisco River). When the Pope had divided up the New World giving the continent of Morgania* to the English, they had subsequently sent out their own explorers. When the New Humbra River (OTL São Francisco River) was rediscovered mapped by William Turner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Turner_(ornithologist) in 1531 the glare from the waves reminded him of the shimmering of those of the Humber Estuary in Northumberland. On his expedition to map the land and collect bird samples he had marked several good places for trading posts or colonies, and along the coastline he had written Southumberland. While it was just a simple amusement to Turner, the people who would subsequently make copies of his maps kept printing this as the regions name.

As England set up more colonies along the coast and along the various rivers, at home things were changing rapidly. Queen Elizabeth married Lord Robert Dudley after his wife finally past away in 1559 from a long battle with breast cancer**. In 1581, Prince George, the Queens only son, married Amy Siannan FitzGerald the only daughter of Gerald FitzGerald, 15th Earl of Desmond, and Lady Joan FitzGerald, Countess of Ormond. Lady Amy FitzGerald was well loved by everyone in Ireland and came to be practically worshipped throughout all the British Isles when she became Queen. ***

It was in 1672 that formal Union was announced throughtout the British Isles when King William V assumed the throne. Later in 1772, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland came to head a Personal Union with Greece.****

In 1842 King Henry IX, aka the Strange, had become more and more heavy handed in his treatment of the colonies. Heavy taxes and numerous conscriptions to fight his wars in Europe finally brought it to a head for the people in Southumberland as well as the rest of the colonies on Morgania. After seven years of fighting in the jungles and inaccessible savannahs, the rebels won their independence. They modeled there nation on that of Greece which had set up a Democratic Republic after their Revolution of 1836.



Flag:
The flag is based on the marks the Southumbrian rebels would place on trees. These were vertical lines made around a section of tree trunk to mark the men who died fighting in a particular area. A white ribbon would be affixed to the tree representing Jesus Christ looking after the men’s souls. The majority of these rebels were of English, Irish or Scot descent, although large groups of Welsh, Greeks, Morg-Indians, and Free-Africans were included.

Colors:
-Dark Blue symbolizes all the nights Southumbrian women had to worry about their sons, brothers, and husbands during the War of independence.
-The Sky Blue symbolizes the open spaces of Morgania that helped the Southumbrians to fight off the British.
-The white represents peace and also the benevolent protection of Jesus Christ.


* Somewhere a cartographer placed the name of Morgan Le Fay on his map in the southern continent and Guinevere on the Northern continent of the New World. Which over time became Morgania and Gwynevera as the names caught on.

** Some researches have proposed that Amy Dudley actually died of a Trichinosis infection located in the underlining muscle of the breast.

*** Many scholars mark this as the begining of the union for all three lands of Ireland, Scotland, and England-Wales.

**** Greece won its independence in 1703 after the Ottomans lost the War of the Balkan Wall to Russia and the Austrians.

 

[ah-sue]

OPTION C – The Dominion of New Wessex

The name of the Dominion derives from the large number of settlers from that part of England often referred to as ‘Wessex’. The first settlements were the brainchild of Sir Francis Drake, one of England’s most prominent 16th century seafarers and explorers, a fact recognised when New Wessex created a new capital city in the 1950s and named it Drakeston, chosen ahead of Adrianton (Drake having taken holy orders and becoming Pope Adrian VII in 1592).

Between 1747 and 1751 the colony of New Wessex took part in the negotiations leading up the establishment of the United Colonies of America, but upon the formation of the latter (1755) it chose to remain separate. Dominion status was achieved in 1881 when the flag illustrated was adopted. New Wessex has twice rejected through referenda proposals (1936 and 1981) to replace the flag with new designs omitting the Union Flag of the United Kingdom of England & Ireland.


The flag bears the Union Flag in a top left canton on a gold background defaced by a red Wessex Wyvern,

 

[vended]

Can I make a suggestion for the next challenge ?

A flag for a country in the future where Bahá'í Faith is predominant (or in an FTL world where it spread way more than OTL)

Basically the Baha'i 's symbols is the nine-pointed star, although they also use the five pointed star..

19 is also a symbolic number, there is 19 months of 19days in the baha'i calendar). There is a calligraphy of "the greatest name" for god, but I don't know if it's ok to represent it in something such as a flag.

Baha'is are adept of non violence in such a way that "it's better to be hurt than hurting someone else" so white seem a good color for a baha'i flag.
Purple as it is symbolic for spirituality seem also a good color, but it's only my opinion (and I like purple ^^ ).



Is it a proper suggestion ?

 

[doramider7]

Good after-noon!

Spitfiremk1, don't forget to post your preferred suggestion in the other thread soon. The contest goes for seven days after that post, which makes it easy for every-body to track.

In any case, here are my current suggestions:

- Choose any national-flag that you dislike and design a better one.
- Improve a Soviet-Socialistrepublic flag.
- Improve a United-States of America State flag.
- A colony on The Moon.
- A colony on Mars.
- &etc.
- Alternate United-Nations.
- A colony that is under-water.
- Design a flag for a location that does not have one.
- A future China.
- A united Korea.
- An alternate split (for example North and South Korea, or East and West Germany). May be past, present or future.
- A flag for your-self.
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Flag of Burgundy
Flag of a Brazil being colonized by Dutch
Flag of the reunited Kingdom of Arnor and Gondor

 

[Akkismat]

The Republic of Kipchakstan

The Republic of Kipchakstan

HISTORY:

POD: Toktamysh is able to win the battle at Kunduschka against Timur.

After this victory he is able to strengthen his territories and subsequent rulers from his house hold on to the lands (without falling into disarray due to for example civil wars).

Although some lands are lost to the Great-Russian Empire and Ottoman Empire in subsequent eras, the core areas of the Khanate of the Golden Horde was able to balance itself quite ably into modern times as a strong
bufferstate between it's neighbours.

Although the Kipchaks have been occupied for some time during the last century by the Teutonians, Ottomans, Suleymanids and the Great-Russians, they have been able to become eventually an independant nation after the fall of the Great-Russian Empire in the 1960's.

DESCRIPTION:

The flag uses the gold color fo the Golden Horde banner and the crimson color of the House of Toktamysh.
Among the symbols used in the flag are the crescent and 5 stars, pointing out to the Islamic heritage of the nation and it's 5 major Islamic centres.
The red disk and ornamentation of the crescent come from the Mongolic heritage of the original Golden Horde.

 

[Iserlohn]

The Qipchaq Free State

POD: The Battle for Lipnic ends in a phyrric victory for the Moldavians like OTL, however the losses for the Great Horde are lower.

Even though the power of the Great Horde was already fading the khans of the Qipchaq prove themselves lucky. After aligning with the Ottomans in 1486 they substained Polish and Muscovite attacks and were able to get into deep trade relations with Novgorod.

In 1639 the Muscovites made an agreement with the Great Horde guaranteeing the weakened state's independence in exchange for abandoning the Turks which was agreed upon by the current Khan Dawlat Murtada and his advisors.

Under the protection of the Muscovites the Qipchaq survived and were able to keep their old traditions, even though the Khan was forced to tolerate Orthodox Christians within his domain after 1713.

On the 12th September 1901 the Qipchaq Free State was declared after Muscowy and the Qipchaq Khanate lost the Great European War against France and its allies. The young republic adopted it's present day flag two months later.


The Flag

The flag has a ratio of 1:1 and has a green field with red pales. A yellow steppe eagle with a stylized moon and sun above him serves as the charge.

Regarding the symbolism of this flag the steppe eagle stands for the Qipchaq people sharing their homelands with this bird of prey and the sun and the moon are historical Mongol symbols for eternity. It should be of further note that the eagle carrying both sun and moon represent the people's efforts to their homeland. The colours represent Islam (green), wealth (yellow) and passion (red). Gold was scrapped from the new flag to avoid references to the rule of the khans.

 

[Sovereign12]

Birinqilk Tatalgin Qirim (The Ascendancy of Crimea)

POD: Fire Of Moscow in 1571 kills Ivan the Terrible’s family. Ivan the Terrible’s body never found.

In May 1571, the 120,000-strong Crimean and Turkish army led by Khan Devlet I Giray, bypassed the Serpukov fortifications on the Oka River, crossed the Ugra River and rounded the flank of the 6,000 strong Russian army. The sentry troops of the Russians were crushed by the Crimeans. Not having forces to stop the invasion, the Russian army receded to Moscow. The rural Russian population fled to the capital placing a burden on the city.

The Crimean army devastated unprotected towns and villages around Moscow, and then set fire to the suburbs of the capital. Due to a strong wind, the fire quickly expanded. The towns people, chased by fire and refugees, rushed to northern gate of the capital. At the gate and in the narrow streets, there was a crush. The army, having mixed up with refugees, lost order, and general prince Belsky died in a fire. Within three hours, Moscow burnt out completely. With the Crimean army battlelust up they took the city to further destroy it. Ivan the Terrible's family were found dead inside the stables from severe burns and smoke inhalation. Ivan the Terrible himself was never found or heard of again. The Ottomans placed into slavery 190,000 Russians. Contemporaries counted up to 150,000 victims of the invasion in 1571. Papal ambassador Possevin testified of the devastation: he counted in 1580 no more than 10,000 inhabitants of Moscow, although in 1520 the Moscow population was about 35,000.

After burning Moscow, Devlet I Giray, supported by the Ottoman Empire, developed the plan of the idea of rebuilding Moscow as a city of Crimeans. The next year, the army and slaves brought up from the Ottoman Empire began rebuilding the city. The remaining Russian inhabitants were kicked out of the city into the wilderness beyond to start small farming villages.

In 1852 the Polish led Armies of the Baltic invaded the Crimea Khanate. While the Armies of the Baltic won numerous battles in the first years of the war, the entrance of the Persian Empire on the side of Crimea and the Ottomans, eventually weakened them so much a call for peace was made. It was 1859 by the time all hostilities ended and a treaty was passed. Ironically, while the war was over the populous of Crimea was so disrupted and starving that a uprising took place in the capital. The Khan and his family were murdered by the followers of Şahin Ahmet, known as the Ascendant, before he announced that Crimea was to enter a new age and took rulership of the country.

The Ascendancy has ruled the country with a heavy hand ever since. While some good has come from their rule such as religious freedom* and equality for women, the totalitarian theocracy has continually been blamed for the deaths of millions over the past 150 years. Their extreme zealotry, militantism, and being one of the global super powers to possess nuclear weapons**, along with the Franco-Italian Empire and the Industrailist Republic of the Ind***, has only enhanced the fear that the rest of the world holds for them.


DESCRIPTION:

The flag below is from the Battle of Giza during the Great Eurasiatic War. It can be found in the Museum of Culture in Sarai.

-The golden field represents all of the peoples and lands that the Golden Horde and Crimea has ever held.
-The blue color is the color of the Ascendancy.
-The black color is the darkness that all God’s children must journey through to reach Him.
-The symbol in the middle is an alternate evolution of the same Tamga that the Golden Horde and Crimea used in OTL. Where it was originally used as a stamp or brand for cattle ownership, the Ascendancy uses it as the symbol of the peoples’ enslavement to Allah.
-The crescent in the black wedge represents the ever watchful Eye of Allah. It is also representative of the Islamic religion. The two oblong crescents**** that are part of the Tamga represent Chritianity and Judaism.
-The flag is edged with golden silk which represents the holy embrace of Allah.
-The three tin bells at the lead edge of the flag each represent the three Abrahamic faiths, similar to the cresents.





* Three Moderate powers also possess Nuclear Weapons: Kingdom of Ayutthaya, Dai Nippon Teikoku, & the Confederation Ireland, Scotland, and England (CISE)
** Religious freedom does not necessarily mean actual freedom. The Ascendants believe that Islam, Christianity, and Judaism are all ways to God. Yet, if anyone breaks the laws of their own religion, they are seen as blasphemers and in collusion with evil forces, prompting swift and deadly action. (see Chapter 17 – Secret Police, the Eyes of Allah)
*** Also known as the I.R.I., but most other nations use the derogative term, “the Eeries”.
**** While the crescents are not the symbols that Christianity and Judaism themselves esteem, the Ascendancy sees the two religions as slightly obtuse, older ways to Allah. Hence, for any governmental symbology the two oblong crescents, not quite as perfect as the Islamic crescent.

 

[Lord Grattan]

The Republic of Nogaistan
HISTORY:

POD: Among the fragmented remnants of the Golden Horde following the Toktamysh - Timur War was the Nogai Horde. The horde, as the Khanate of Nogai, was able to assert its territorial integrity successfully during the turbulent 15th and 16th Centuries. Also, its capital, Saraychyq, grew to be an important trade center along the Europe to China trade route.

Though under the rule of the Ottoman and later Russian Empires during the 18th and 19th Centuries, the Nogai region emerged as an independent republic in the 1922 as a result of Russia's dismemberment according to the so-called "Peace of Kiev" at the conclusion of the Great Transcontinental War.

DESCRIPTION:

The flag uses the gold color of the Golden Horde banner. Among the symbols used in the flag are 2 swords - symbolizing valor and defense of liberty - and 4 white crescents on a green disk - symbolizing the Nogai people's Islamic heritage. The red edge of the disk recalls the Mongol heritage of the original Golden Horde.

 

[Iserlohn]

And the winner is Akkismat; congratulations!

And to the other two contestants, you also submitted really good entries.

 

[Akkismat]

Thank you, Iserlohn, for the congrats.

I know I am supposed to come up with a suggestion, and I wouldn't mind making one up, but I took the liberty of wading through this thread looking at all the previous suggestions (see below).
Among my favorites were suggestions 18, 43, 46 and 52.

For the sake of speeding up the next challenge, I will choose the next challenge tonight, but I wondered what most of you would like the most.

• 1 _ Benkarnell _ A flag used by fans of a sports team in a fictional or alt-historical country

• 2 _ Benkarnell _ A flag for a guerrilla movement that adheres to a fictional, alt-historical, or dead ideology

• 3 _ Benkarnell _ A personal standard for a head-of-state possessing an obsolete or unusual title - a modern archon, First Consul, high king, Big Brother, etc. - of any country

• 4 _ Benkarnell _ A new or alternate flag for any place that is currently uninhabited, whether it has a flag in OTL or not

• 5 _ catboy637 _ A United Republic of Germany before 1980.

• 6 _ dilbert719 _ Create a flag for an independent nation of Alsace-Lorraine

• 7 _ fabrondi _ Flag of Burgundy

• 8 _ fabrondi _ Flag of a Brazil being colonized by Dutch

• 9 _ kirrix _ If you look at world and the current astronomical amount of resources it would take to make permanent homes elsewhere in the Solar System, chances are you'll realize that space colonization will likely begin with corporations attempting to get at mineral rich asteroids. The challenge would be to design the flags of the colonial companies that are set up to do so, as well as a brief blurb describing the company (ie. country/countries of origin, if they have sponsorship of a government, etc.).

• 10 _ Nymain1 _ Republican flags that don't include banded stripes of colour (e.g. Tricolours, Bicolours etc)

• 11 _ OAM47 _ Flag of a North American Union that also has UK and Ireland as equaly important areas.

• 12 _ Rubberduck3y6 _ Flag of an American successor state: Any country which was created (at least partly) out of US territory.

• 13 _ The Professor _ NonOrange Netherlands

• 14 _ The Professor _ Danish North Germany

• 15 _ The Professor _ Bohemian Austria

• 16 _ The Professor _ A different Patron Saint of England

• 17 _ The Professor _ Surviving Aquitaine/Gascony

• 18 _ The Professor _ An ATL Japanese Prefecture - create a flag, complete with kamon, for somewhere that either wasn't under Japanese control or was lost OTL.

• 19 _ The Professor _ Atlantis / Lemuria / Mu Reborn! - create a flag for a land that arises from the ocean and is settled/claimed by a neighbouring country.

• 20 _ The Professor _ Design a flag for Doggerland (or whatever you call it)

• 21 _ The Professor _ Design a flag for another British Isle (a la Tarrantry)

• 22 _ The Professor _ Islandia has undergone revolution: design its successor's flag

• 23 _ The Professor _ Design a flag for one of the fictional countries in Yes Minister

• 24 _ The Professor _ Design a flag for Babar's Kingdom

• 25 _ The Professor _ UK scraps the Union Flag

• 26 _ The Professor _ Political Parties of Alternate Countries

• 34 _ The Professor _ The Literal Micronations: design a flag for the Little Folk (Smurfs, Gnomes, whatever) of a country

• 35 _ Transparent Blue _ Choose any national-flag that you dislike and design a better one.

• 36 _ Transparent Blue _ Improve a Soviet-Socialistrepublic flag.

• 37 _ Transparent Blue _ Improve a United-States of America State flag.

• 38 _ Transparent Blue _ A colony on The Moon.

• 39 _ Transparent Blue _ A colony on Mars.

• 40 _ Transparent Blue _ Alternate United-Nations.

• 41 _ Transparent Blue _ A colony that is under-water.

• 42 _ Transparent Blue _ Design a flag for a location that does not have one.

• 43 _ Transparent Blue _ A future China.

• 44 _ Transparent Blue _ A united Korea.

• 45 _ Transparent Blue _ An alternate split (for example North and South Korea, or East and West Germany). May be past, present or future.

• 46 _ Transparent Blue _ A non-boring flag of Libya.

• 47 _ Transparent Blue _ A communist Chinese flag that actually looks Chinese.

• 48 _ Transparent Blue _ The 'Pacific Union'.

• 49 _ Transparent Blue _ The East African Federation.

• 50 _ Trovador _ The Technocratic Union: create a flag for a nation that sucessfully becomes a Technocracy and a Major Power - it can be in any nation and with any definition of "technocracy".

• 51 _ Trovador _ Alternate national animal: change the national animal of a country and make a flag of such nation with the alternate animal on it - for example, a Germany with a Bear rather than an Eagle, or a Scotland with a Wyvern rather than a Lion.

• 52 _ Trovador _ The Filibuster Republic: the XIX century was full of ambitious adventurers, personal armies and unstable non-civilized regions. The result of these things was some very short-lived and unusual nations, such as the Republic of Sonora, the Republic of Acre and the Kingdom of Sarawak. Create a flag for a (OTL or ATL) "Filibuster" state that manages to survive - it doesn't have to survive until present day, but must exist for over 30 years.

• 53 _ vended _ A flag for a country in the future where Bahá'í Faith is predominant (or in an FTL world where it spread way more than OTL)

• 54 _ Whanztastic _ British Federation Flag (with no Union Jack on it?)
• 55 _ IsraFrance _ Flag of Liberia! Not our Liberia, TTL Liberia is a very very very losse confederation of iislands in the lower pacific near NZ run by pirates.
• 56 _ Lord Grattan _ The Hanseatic League grows into a more cohesive and centralized union, design a flag for it.
• 57 _ Lord Grattan _ Design a flag by twice clicking "random article" in the Navigation Box on Wikipedia and then combining the elements (colors & symbols) of the two most closely related (local, regional, subnational or national) flags.

p.s. I know some of the suggestions above have been already used for some challenges already, but I am a bit too lazy now to wade through the other thread to look which ones specifically.

 

[Sovereign12]

Number 38 the Moon might be interesting. Personally, I will try a flag for any of them.

 

[IsraFrance]

Here's another idea, maybe for next time

Flag of Liberia!
Not our Liberia, TTL Liberia is a very very very losse confederation of iislands in the lower pacific near NZ run by pirates. Liberia have no real rules beside not attacking the capital and flag ship, he does nothing more than representing Liberia at times of need nd taking care of border control, He is quite loved to no know attack was made by Liberian ships

The flag was made due to Liberia's long Rivalry with the French and NewZeland navi, due to most of the islands being French or NewZealnd's before the pirates took over. At first the border control just let any ship with the jolly roger in, but France and NZ figured that out, so the Liberians had a new idea, they would have many similer flags with pirate symbols of all sorts on the ship, with only one of them really being checked. At that point France and NZ gave up trying to take over Liberia by force and started funding rising pirates who want to takeover Liberia from the inside. And ever since, any Liberian Pirate waves his flag proudly on the crows nest.

 

[Lord Grattan]

Two suggestions that I made up-thread:

Here are 2 challenge ideas:

A. The Hanseatic League grows into a more cohesive and centralized union, design a flag for it.

B. Design a flag by twice clicking "random article" in the Navigation Box on Wikipedia and then combining the elements (colors & symbols) of the two most closely related (local, regional, subnational or national) flags.

Here are 2 samples from the Flag Thread:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=2146888&postcount=7191

https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=2145657&postcount=7167

 

[IsraFrance]

Here is my entry for the new contest for Japanese south Kamchatka perfecture (it has a very low population so the whole peninsula is just two perfectures)
The symbol is just something random I made up, the blue sides represent the seas on both it's sides, and the white represents snow or something i guess.

Thanks a TON for akkismat for fixing my flag up because I'm too cheap for PS

 

[Akkismat]

Flag for Japanese East Africa

After WWI and the capture of German East Africa by a joint Japanese-British expedition, a large part of Deutsch Ostafrika was granted as a League of Nations territory to Japan.

This flag has a Kamon which has a very stylized continent of afrika: the five-sided central figure. The arrow stands for the Japanese presence in East-Afrika.

 

[Sovereign12]

Flag for South Madagascar

The forced marriage of Emperor Meiji of Japan to Queen Ranavalona III of Madagascar was seen as a good way of the Progressive (Westernized) faction of Japan to quickly join the Europeans as colonial and world powers. While it brought them quickly into conflict with the European powers, especially France, the further opening of Japanese markets to the West soon smoothed over any trouble for the next fifteen years. Of course before the marriage could be proposed certain people in Madagascar and in Japan had to be removed. So was created the Office of the....


The flag is a gray-turquoise field bisected my a sigmoidal line. The two halves of the field represent the Pacific and Indian oceans, with the line as a gentle wave. The kamon is a Nautilus and an Argonaut joined together in such a way as to form two smaller ones of each. The magenta color of the kamon represents the mixing of bloodlines between Japan and Madagascar.

 

[Rubberduck3y6]

Flag of Hawaii Prefecture. Blue for the Pacific Ocean, white for peace and pink/red for the island of Hawaii. The mon is a hibiscus, the prefectural flower with the eight central segments representing the eight main Hawaiian Islands.



PS: Sorry about the poor quality.

 

[rvbomally]

Vietnamese prefecture from an Axis-wank scenario. Fairly straightforward, mixes elements from the Japanese and Vietnamese flags.