Dankes, mate.
*looks at poll*
Bugger me, I wasn't expecting 50% of the votes
Weekly Flag Challenge: Discussion & Entries
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Dankes, mate.
*looks at poll*
Bugger me, I wasn't expecting 50% of the votes
Interesting challenge. A few questions:
What exactly do you mean by "sort of a South African Brazil"? Just a Portuguese-speaking country in southern Africa, or something more specific?
Is there any restriction on the date of the constitutional change?
Does the country in question have to be called "Republica da Africa Austral" both before and after the change, or just one of the two? A specific one of the two? Or neither of them?
What exactly do you mean by "sort of a South African Brazil"? Just a Portuguese-speaking country in southern Africa, or something more specific?
Is there any restriction on the date of the constitutional change?
Does the country in question have to be called "Republica da Africa Austral" both before and after the change, or just one of the two? A specific one of the two? Or neither of them?
Good questions.
1) by South African Brazil I mean a largish Portuguese speaking country that covers most of southern Africa (inc most of OTL RSA) similar to how Brazil covers much of Northern S. America. Basically bigger than OTL's Angola or Mozambique and not necessarily based in the those areas
2) No dates of the change as I think that'd be too restrictive
3) I'm not too bothered about the name per se I just felt it was a more realistic name and less likely to have people creating a slightly larger Angola or whatever.
In a world where Portugal focused it's colonial eyes on Africa rather than South America, the Southern section of the continent was composed of numerous Portuguese colonies.
In the 1920s, a wave of Engelist Revolutions swept the continent. The uprisings were suppressed in the British and French colonies; autonomy was granted to the Dutch colonies. Spain and Portugal meanwhile lost most of their African colonies.
The Socialist Republic of Austral Africa (SRAA) [República Socialista da África do Sul (RSAS)] started as a genuine socialist state, loyal to the teachings of Engels. However, within a decade the government became increasingly authoritarian. Descendants of Portuguese colonists were often persecuted, leading to a massive exodus throughout the 1930s. By the 1940s, only five percent of the populous was of European descent. All the while, the state became increasingly militaristic and isolationist. The people rose up in a second revolution in the tyrannical government was overthrown. A new, democratic, constitution was drafted, and the nation dropped "Socialist" from it's name, and adopted a new flag.
The first flag is simple in design. The black represents the people of Africa, while the red represents the blood of the revolutionaries, and the star to represent the promises of Socialism.
The second flag abandoned the colors of the former state. The white represents peace, while green represents the prosperity of the state. The octagon represents the eight liberties promised in the new constitution; right to vote, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly/association, right to a fair jury, right to private property, freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, and right to life.
In the 1920s, a wave of Engelist Revolutions swept the continent. The uprisings were suppressed in the British and French colonies; autonomy was granted to the Dutch colonies. Spain and Portugal meanwhile lost most of their African colonies.
The Socialist Republic of Austral Africa (SRAA) [República Socialista da África do Sul (RSAS)] started as a genuine socialist state, loyal to the teachings of Engels. However, within a decade the government became increasingly authoritarian. Descendants of Portuguese colonists were often persecuted, leading to a massive exodus throughout the 1930s. By the 1940s, only five percent of the populous was of European descent. All the while, the state became increasingly militaristic and isolationist. The people rose up in a second revolution in the tyrannical government was overthrown. A new, democratic, constitution was drafted, and the nation dropped "Socialist" from it's name, and adopted a new flag.
The first flag is simple in design. The black represents the people of Africa, while the red represents the blood of the revolutionaries, and the star to represent the promises of Socialism.
The second flag abandoned the colors of the former state. The white represents peace, while green represents the prosperity of the state. The octagon represents the eight liberties promised in the new constitution; right to vote, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly/association, right to a fair jury, right to private property, freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, and right to life.
King Helü of Wu
Banned
[FONT="]Estêvão da Gama, inspired by Bartolomeu Diaz's reports about the Cape of Good Hope, devised a plan to establish a re-supply post there. He managed to convince King John II that such a colony would be necessary if Portugal wants to explore further eastwards to India.
The plan was put into action by the beginning of 1491. After Estêvão da Gama's landing there in May 6, 1491, with his 3 ships and 400-strong crew. The local Khoisan People were friendly and willing to trade, which allowed Estêvão to sail back home with 350 people, leaving behind 50 people in what would be known as São João's Town.
When he came back in two years, he brought along with him livestock, cereal, fruit seeds,iron axes/spearheads, a governor (Álvaro Caminha), and some prisoners as well as expelled Jews from Spain. There he found the original São João's Town well and sound, with the inhabitants intermarried with the locals.
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[FONT="] The town gradually grew as a supply post as Estêvão's son Visco da Gama inaugurated Portugal's spice trade with India. Subsequent Portuguese expeditions into Africa had always been São João based, Portugal set up a string of trade towns along the coast of OTL Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique and Madagascar, and gradually seeped into the inland.[/FONT]
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[FONT="] Upset by Portugal's successes in the east, Spain behaved more jingoistic in Western Hemisphere, forcing Portugal to invest more into Africa. Portuguese Royalty's flee to Southern Africa during the Napoleonic Wars further strengthened Portuguese ties with the colony. This was helped by the liberal attitudes of Portuguese Viceroy Pedro, who supposedly said:”[/FONT] [FONT="]I know that my blood is the same colour as that of the Negroes.”[/FONT]
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[FONT="]However, the just like enlightenment ideas of Tsarina Catherine the Great, Pedro’s liberal ideas had limited influences on real policies, and sadly, the realities of Portuguese rule remained similar to the hybrid of Spanish colonies in Americas and British India: Influential land-owning European feudal lords ruling over a Half-European, Half-Khoisan(or half Bantu) peasant/farm workers’ class, with semi-independent black princedoms paying tribute to it. There were, however, more churches, more schools and hospitals than other European colonies. This ensured the half of the natives and almost all of the European immigrants to be Portugalized.
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[FONT="]When Constitutional Revolution broke out in Portugal, the upper class (and their friends in London and Wall Street) felt threatened by its liberal ideals, they declared for themselves the “Republic of South Africa”, though people preferred to add the word “Banana” before its title.
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[FONT="]However, changes in Mainland Portugal and their colonies still influenced South Africa, who never developed something as rigid and ideological as the OTL apartheid. In addition, the more “black” eastern regions of the country, without having a plantation-dominated economy, gradually Industrialised under foreign investments in labour-intensive industries. These positive economic changes paved way for gradual political change.
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[FONT="]And finally, when radical priests lead a revolution in 1980, the country adopted a new flag, with red symbolising different races of the country having the same colour in their blood, white for a new “clean” government, echoing Pedro’s words, white disk symbolising national integrity, white cross in the background for trading routes which enriches the strategically–placed country, and an Order of Christ Cross in the centre symbolising Christianity.[/FONT]
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The plan was put into action by the beginning of 1491. After Estêvão da Gama's landing there in May 6, 1491, with his 3 ships and 400-strong crew. The local Khoisan People were friendly and willing to trade, which allowed Estêvão to sail back home with 350 people, leaving behind 50 people in what would be known as São João's Town.
When he came back in two years, he brought along with him livestock, cereal, fruit seeds,iron axes/spearheads, a governor (Álvaro Caminha), and some prisoners as well as expelled Jews from Spain. There he found the original São João's Town well and sound, with the inhabitants intermarried with the locals.
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[FONT="] The town gradually grew as a supply post as Estêvão's son Visco da Gama inaugurated Portugal's spice trade with India. Subsequent Portuguese expeditions into Africa had always been São João based, Portugal set up a string of trade towns along the coast of OTL Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique and Madagascar, and gradually seeped into the inland.[/FONT]
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[FONT="]Flag of the Crowned Prince as Prince of South Africa[/FONT]
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[FONT="] Upset by Portugal's successes in the east, Spain behaved more jingoistic in Western Hemisphere, forcing Portugal to invest more into Africa. Portuguese Royalty's flee to Southern Africa during the Napoleonic Wars further strengthened Portuguese ties with the colony. This was helped by the liberal attitudes of Portuguese Viceroy Pedro, who supposedly said:”[/FONT] [FONT="]I know that my blood is the same colour as that of the Negroes.”[/FONT]
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[FONT="]Flag of the Kingdom of Portugal and South Africa
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[FONT="]In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the reactionary land-owning class of South Africa was more and more connected with British and American bankers, who influenced Sao Joao more intensively than Lisbon does.
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[FONT="]When Constitutional Revolution broke out in Portugal, the upper class (and their friends in London and Wall Street) felt threatened by its liberal ideals, they declared for themselves the “Republic of South Africa”, though people preferred to add the word “Banana” before its title.
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Flag of the "Banana" Republic.
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[FONT="]However, changes in Mainland Portugal and their colonies still influenced South Africa, who never developed something as rigid and ideological as the OTL apartheid. In addition, the more “black” eastern regions of the country, without having a plantation-dominated economy, gradually Industrialised under foreign investments in labour-intensive industries. These positive economic changes paved way for gradual political change.
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[FONT="]And finally, when radical priests lead a revolution in 1980, the country adopted a new flag, with red symbolising different races of the country having the same colour in their blood, white for a new “clean” government, echoing Pedro’s words, white disk symbolising national integrity, white cross in the background for trading routes which enriches the strategically–placed country, and an Order of Christ Cross in the centre symbolising Christianity.[/FONT]
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King Helü of Wu
Banned
Entry
Estêvão da Gama, inspired by Bartolomeu Diaz's reports about the Cape of Good Hope, devised a plan to establish a re-supply post there. He managed to convince King John II that such a colony would be necessary if Portugal wants to explore further eastwards to India.The plan was put into action by the beginning of 1491. After Estêvão da Gama's landing there in May 6, 1491, with his 3 ships and 400-strong crew. The local Khoisan People were friendly and willing to trade, which allowed Estêvão to sail back home with 350 people, leaving behind 50 people in what would be known as São João's Town.
When he came back in two years, he brought along with him livestock, cereal, fruit seeds,iron axes/spearheads, a governor (Álvaro Caminha), and some prisoners as well as expelled Jews from Spain. There he found the original São João's Town well and sound, with the inhabitants intermarried with the locals. The town gradually grew as a supply post as Estêvão's son Visco da Gama inaugurated Portugal's spice trade with India. Subsequent Portuguese expeditions into Africa had always been São João based, Portugal set up a string of trade towns along the coast of OTL Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique and Madagascar, and gradually seeped into the inland.
Upset by Portugal's successes in the east, Spain behaved more jingoistic in Western Hemisphere, forcing Portugal to invest more into Africa. Portuguese Royalty's flee to Southern Africa during the Napoleonic Wars further strengthened Portuguese ties with the colony. This was helped by the liberal attitudes of Portuguese Viceroy Pedro, who supposedly said:” I know that my blood is the same colour as that of the Negroes.” However, the just like enlightenment ideas of Tsarina Catherine the Great, Pedro’s liberal ideas had limited influences on real policies, and sadly, the realities of Portuguese rule remained similar to the hybrid of Spanish colonies in Americas and British India: Influential land-owning European feudal lords ruling over a Half-European, Half-Khoisan(or half Bantu) peasant/farm workers’ class, with semi-independent black princedoms paying tribute to it. There were, however, more churches, more schools and hospitals than other European colonies. This ensured the half of the natives and almost all of the European immigrants to be Portugalized.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the reactionary land-owning class of South Africa was more and more connected with British and American bankers, who influenced Sao Joao more intensively than Lisbon does.
When Constitutional Revolution broke out in Portugal, the upper class (and their friends in London and Wall Street) felt threatened by its liberal ideals, they declared for themselves the “Republic of South Africa”, though people preferred to add the word “Banana” before its title.
(Banana) Republic of South Africa Flag
However, changes in Mainland Portugal and their colonies still influenced South Africa, who never developed something as rigid and ideological as the OTL apartheid. In addition, the more “black” eastern regions of the country, without having a plantation-dominated economy, gradually Industrialised under foreign investments in labour-intensive industries. These positive economic changes paved way for gradual political change.
And finally, when radical priests lead a revolution in 1980, the country adopted a new flag, with red symbolising different races of the country having the same colour in their blood, echoing Pedro’s words, white for a new “clean” government. Center disk symbolising national integrity, white cross in the background for trading routes which enriches the strategically–placed country, and an Order of Christ Cross in the centre symbolising Christianity.
Republic of South Africa Flag.
Estêvão da Gama, inspired by Bartolomeu Diaz's reports about the Cape of Good Hope, devised a plan to establish a re-supply post there. He managed to convince King John II that such a colony would be necessary if Portugal wants to explore further eastwards to India.The plan was put into action by the beginning of 1491. After Estêvão da Gama's landing there in May 6, 1491, with his 3 ships and 400-strong crew. The local Khoisan People were friendly and willing to trade, which allowed Estêvão to sail back home with 350 people, leaving behind 50 people in what would be known as São João's Town.
When he came back in two years, he brought along with him livestock, cereal, fruit seeds,iron axes/spearheads, a governor (Álvaro Caminha), and some prisoners as well as expelled Jews from Spain. There he found the original São João's Town well and sound, with the inhabitants intermarried with the locals. The town gradually grew as a supply post as Estêvão's son Visco da Gama inaugurated Portugal's spice trade with India. Subsequent Portuguese expeditions into Africa had always been São João based, Portugal set up a string of trade towns along the coast of OTL Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique and Madagascar, and gradually seeped into the inland.
Upset by Portugal's successes in the east, Spain behaved more jingoistic in Western Hemisphere, forcing Portugal to invest more into Africa. Portuguese Royalty's flee to Southern Africa during the Napoleonic Wars further strengthened Portuguese ties with the colony. This was helped by the liberal attitudes of Portuguese Viceroy Pedro, who supposedly said:” I know that my blood is the same colour as that of the Negroes.” However, the just like enlightenment ideas of Tsarina Catherine the Great, Pedro’s liberal ideas had limited influences on real policies, and sadly, the realities of Portuguese rule remained similar to the hybrid of Spanish colonies in Americas and British India: Influential land-owning European feudal lords ruling over a Half-European, Half-Khoisan(or half Bantu) peasant/farm workers’ class, with semi-independent black princedoms paying tribute to it. There were, however, more churches, more schools and hospitals than other European colonies. This ensured the half of the natives and almost all of the European immigrants to be Portugalized.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the reactionary land-owning class of South Africa was more and more connected with British and American bankers, who influenced Sao Joao more intensively than Lisbon does.
When Constitutional Revolution broke out in Portugal, the upper class (and their friends in London and Wall Street) felt threatened by its liberal ideals, they declared for themselves the “Republic of South Africa”, though people preferred to add the word “Banana” before its title.
However, changes in Mainland Portugal and their colonies still influenced South Africa, who never developed something as rigid and ideological as the OTL apartheid. In addition, the more “black” eastern regions of the country, without having a plantation-dominated economy, gradually Industrialised under foreign investments in labour-intensive industries. These positive economic changes paved way for gradual political change.
And finally, when radical priests lead a revolution in 1980, the country adopted a new flag, with red symbolising different races of the country having the same colour in their blood, echoing Pedro’s words, white for a new “clean” government. Center disk symbolising national integrity, white cross in the background for trading routes which enriches the strategically–placed country, and an Order of Christ Cross in the centre symbolising Christianity.
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I don't know if this actually fits the parameters, but I already made the flags, so I might as well post it:
A stronger Portuguese focus on Africa meant that Portugal was able to enforce the claims made in the Pink Map, linking its colonies in Angola and Mozambique with a wide swath of the African interior (OTL Zimbabwe and most of Zambia and Malawi). In 1890 the British issued an ultimatum that the Portuguese withdraw, but they were unable to enforce it due to distractions on the continent and an unwillingness to go against an old ally with such a strong presence in the area. Soon after, the area was officially recognized by Britain and the other European powers as Portuguese South Africa (África Meridional Português).
As many of the newly acquired areas were considered suitable for white habitation, Portugal quickly set about to attracting settlers from Europe, especially Catholic ones, to the colonies, and then encouraging them to speak Portuguese and assimilate into the wider Portuguese society, with some degree of success. However, whites remained a small and isolated minority of the population, with the much larger native population generally either exploited or ignored. Portuguese assistance for the Boers during the Anglo-Boer war, hidden under the diplomatic veil of volunteering, helped those nations to independence, but also had the unintended effect of fueling desires for independence in Africa Meridional, which were further inflamed by an influx of republican exiles from the metropole after a failed revolution in 1910.
When Portugal was dragged into World War I on the side of the Central Powers it granted Africa Meridional autonomy as a dominion so that it would better be able to direct the war effort in Africa, but the dominion soon became dominated by nationalist factions who turned against the Central Powers, joined the Entente, and declared independence as the Republic of Africa Meridional. As a reward, the victorious Entente recognized the RAM's independence in the Treaty of Versailles and granted it the sections of German East Africa and Southwest Africa that it had captured as mandates.
(Independence flag of Africa Meridional, combining the arms of Angola and Mozambique.)
Whites dominated the new nation, while the black majority were denied political and social rights. Eventually an official policy of "separação" was implemented in 1950, making segregation and discrimination official and strengthening the government in its pursuit of each. The black community started a campaign of resistance against separação, strengthened by struggles for independence by the black inhabitants of the Meridional mandates, opposition to separação and support for the resistance from Africa Meridional's neighbors and foreign powers, and divisions among the white governments of the various regions as the central government became increasingly right-wing and nationalistic.
Fueled by the Cold War, by the late 1970s the conflict flared into a full-blown civil war, with the white central government and the right-wing governments of the Orange Free State and Zanzibar on one side, and the black resistance, Marxist movements, and the left-wing governments of Bechuanaland and Mapungubwe (formerly Transvaal) on the other side. By 1995, the war had reached a stalemate, with the whites controlling the densely populated coasts and Zambezi River, and the blacks controlling most of the interior of the country. Western powers and the UN finally brokered a peace agreement that called for a new constitution, renaming the country to the Republic of Meridia. A democratic government with the principle of majority rule, but with assured rights and representation for the white minority, was enacted.
A new flag for Meridia was introduced. The pattern at the hoist represented the waters of Amélia Falls (OTL Victoria Falls), location of the new federal capital, as well as the ideal of the two races living together in harmony. The tricolor combines the green color of the old government and the gold favored by the resistance, and bears stars representing the Southern Cross, a unifying symbol in that it is above all Meridians regardless of race.
A stronger Portuguese focus on Africa meant that Portugal was able to enforce the claims made in the Pink Map, linking its colonies in Angola and Mozambique with a wide swath of the African interior (OTL Zimbabwe and most of Zambia and Malawi). In 1890 the British issued an ultimatum that the Portuguese withdraw, but they were unable to enforce it due to distractions on the continent and an unwillingness to go against an old ally with such a strong presence in the area. Soon after, the area was officially recognized by Britain and the other European powers as Portuguese South Africa (África Meridional Português).
As many of the newly acquired areas were considered suitable for white habitation, Portugal quickly set about to attracting settlers from Europe, especially Catholic ones, to the colonies, and then encouraging them to speak Portuguese and assimilate into the wider Portuguese society, with some degree of success. However, whites remained a small and isolated minority of the population, with the much larger native population generally either exploited or ignored. Portuguese assistance for the Boers during the Anglo-Boer war, hidden under the diplomatic veil of volunteering, helped those nations to independence, but also had the unintended effect of fueling desires for independence in Africa Meridional, which were further inflamed by an influx of republican exiles from the metropole after a failed revolution in 1910.
When Portugal was dragged into World War I on the side of the Central Powers it granted Africa Meridional autonomy as a dominion so that it would better be able to direct the war effort in Africa, but the dominion soon became dominated by nationalist factions who turned against the Central Powers, joined the Entente, and declared independence as the Republic of Africa Meridional. As a reward, the victorious Entente recognized the RAM's independence in the Treaty of Versailles and granted it the sections of German East Africa and Southwest Africa that it had captured as mandates.
(Independence flag of Africa Meridional, combining the arms of Angola and Mozambique.)
Whites dominated the new nation, while the black majority were denied political and social rights. Eventually an official policy of "separação" was implemented in 1950, making segregation and discrimination official and strengthening the government in its pursuit of each. The black community started a campaign of resistance against separação, strengthened by struggles for independence by the black inhabitants of the Meridional mandates, opposition to separação and support for the resistance from Africa Meridional's neighbors and foreign powers, and divisions among the white governments of the various regions as the central government became increasingly right-wing and nationalistic.
Fueled by the Cold War, by the late 1970s the conflict flared into a full-blown civil war, with the white central government and the right-wing governments of the Orange Free State and Zanzibar on one side, and the black resistance, Marxist movements, and the left-wing governments of Bechuanaland and Mapungubwe (formerly Transvaal) on the other side. By 1995, the war had reached a stalemate, with the whites controlling the densely populated coasts and Zambezi River, and the blacks controlling most of the interior of the country. Western powers and the UN finally brokered a peace agreement that called for a new constitution, renaming the country to the Republic of Meridia. A democratic government with the principle of majority rule, but with assured rights and representation for the white minority, was enacted.
A new flag for Meridia was introduced. The pattern at the hoist represented the waters of Amélia Falls (OTL Victoria Falls), location of the new federal capital, as well as the ideal of the two races living together in harmony. The tricolor combines the green color of the old government and the gold favored by the resistance, and bears stars representing the Southern Cross, a unifying symbol in that it is above all Meridians regardless of race.
PoD: The settlers that claim independence in Africa are not the Dutch Boers but Portuguese Rendeiors, mostly political prisoners fleeing from prison camps in Mozambique.
A native uprising against Britain in 1901 allows the alliance of Rendeior Republics to win the Anglo-Transval War and gain control over all of South Africa. Unfortunately for their former allies, once they had control, they, too, turned on the natives. The United Republic of South Africa (formerly Free State of Transval) is the new name of the state after apartheid was ended in 1994 and equality between the Portuguese whites and the Zulu blacks began in earnest. In recognition of the moment in the nation's history, the shield of KwaZulu was added to the front of the state flag, with African colors.
P.S. Guess who didn't read the "has to be Portuguese" part until the last second
A native uprising against Britain in 1901 allows the alliance of Rendeior Republics to win the Anglo-Transval War and gain control over all of South Africa. Unfortunately for their former allies, once they had control, they, too, turned on the natives. The United Republic of South Africa (formerly Free State of Transval) is the new name of the state after apartheid was ended in 1994 and equality between the Portuguese whites and the Zulu blacks began in earnest. In recognition of the moment in the nation's history, the shield of KwaZulu was added to the front of the state flag, with African colors.
P.S. Guess who didn't read the "has to be Portuguese" part until the last second
A União do Sul - The Union of the South
The Union of the South was formed mainly from Portuguese colonies in southern Africa, together with parts of former German and British possessions. For much of its first 60 years of existence it was a strongly male dominated Kingdom, denying women the right to vote, to hold property or to initiate divorce proceedings. As the rest of the world moved toward sexual equality, the Union became something of a pariah in the Community of Nations, its only ‘ally’ being theocratic Republic of Deserveret.
Pressing for reform, the Sapphogette Movement spawned a violent wing, which undertook a bombing and assassination campaign. With the ‘freedom front’ receiving ever increasing arms and financial support from many nations, the Union descended into a civil war which neither side look capable of winning. Eventually the world’s No.1 superpower, The United Sisterhoods of America, intervened and thus was the Union eventually transformed from a monarchy into a gynarchy.
The flag adopted by the monarchy bore the head of the Lion. The flag created by the gynarchy bore the lion’s ‘little sister’, a black cat.
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The Union of the South was formed mainly from Portuguese colonies in southern Africa, together with parts of former German and British possessions. For much of its first 60 years of existence it was a strongly male dominated Kingdom, denying women the right to vote, to hold property or to initiate divorce proceedings. As the rest of the world moved toward sexual equality, the Union became something of a pariah in the Community of Nations, its only ‘ally’ being theocratic Republic of Deserveret.
Pressing for reform, the Sapphogette Movement spawned a violent wing, which undertook a bombing and assassination campaign. With the ‘freedom front’ receiving ever increasing arms and financial support from many nations, the Union descended into a civil war which neither side look capable of winning. Eventually the world’s No.1 superpower, The United Sisterhoods of America, intervened and thus was the Union eventually transformed from a monarchy into a gynarchy.
The flag adopted by the monarchy bore the head of the Lion. The flag created by the gynarchy bore the lion’s ‘little sister’, a black cat.
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In competition size:
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Thank you, you are "a diamond in [our] dull grey lives" (with apologies to Tim Rice).
Some quite lovely entries
A little clean up is all that is needed really
Still plenty of time to create a valid entry
And once again, mine look like crap. lol
A little clean up is all that is needed really
P.S. Guess who didn't read the "has to be Portuguese" part until the last second
Still plenty of time to create a valid entry
Poll should be up by c3pm GMT (in 4.5h) unless anyone wants the deadline extended.
Forgive an easily confused old soldier, but my calendar implies that today is neither a Wednesday nor the 25th July.
Dang
Should have been Tues 23rd. In my copy&paste haste I must have added wrong
I'll blame it on the heat
EDIT: If there's a clamouring for later entries because of this mistake, please let me know and I'll cancel the current poll
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