Weekly Flag Challenge: Discussion & Entries

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PRINCIPALITY OF CRIMEA GOVERNMENT-IN-EXILE

Crimea became a Principality within the Kingdom of Ukraine as a result of the Great Eastern War. Over the period of a decade or so, the existing ethnically Russian majority within the Principality soon became a minority (albeit a significant minority of some 35%) due the exodus of many of the ‘Russians’ and the Ukrainian policy of assisted immigration into Crimea of ethnic Ukrainians. But the defeat of the Ukraine in the brief but bloody war with the fascist Union of All the Russias (UAR) led to the annexation of Crimea by the UAR.

The terms of the peace treaty required that the Ukraine recognised the transfer of Crimea but it did not prevent them from covertly supporting the creation and existence of a ‘government-in-exile’ of the Principality of Crimea. This organisation had its headquarters in Berlin, despite repeated protests from the Union of All the Russias.

(The emblem is taken from the Coat-of-Arms from Our Timeline's Crimea)

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Sovereign12

Okay, didn't think it has be this long since I had entered a challenge. Yet, after searching through the thread, the last time I had done so was March 20, 2012. Last time I had won one of these was a year before that.

Any way, here is my submission for the newest challenge:



Holy Republic of Saint Disney

(...And in the early days of Armeggdon, Miracles Happen. The Hunchback had resumed the Court of Miracles under the sea and one by one the Princesses came to place God's Judgement upon Humans - New Beginnings 1:1 ©)

“The plagues had devastated the world in the year of our Lord 2014. It appeared like a common cold at first, but inside of three months it had escalated into various forms of Hemorrhagic fever. Most mammals were affected by it: cattle and other ruminants would be dead within two years. Cats and Dogs survived slightly longer but ultimately passed from the earth. Wolves and coyotes lasted a bit longer, but birth defects caused by the viruses got them in the end. Almost all mammals died, except the mice.

Mice were everywhere feeding on unharvested grains, foods in supermarkets, food warehouse goods, and the corpses of the dead. As they fed, their numbers grew from over breeding, soon the storages of food were slowly depleted and they sought other sustenance. Swarms of mice started to strip trees and bushes. When the many areas were denuded of vegetation they started to hunt. Birds were safe for the most part, especially water fowl like ducks, which could get away from the land for a while.

People were mostly gone by this time, but some groups that remained were those holed up in the glass encased Apple stores. The hordes of mice could not chew through the glass walls of the building unlike the concrete of other buildings; poisons and traps placed on the roofs and in the basements kept most of the rodents out. As the mice consumed most of the accessible food, they began to turn on themselves. Within two weeks most of the mice were dead, soon plants were growing again as spring came. People could venture out of their glass fortresses and start again.

Four years after the first of the plagues, a message went out to the few survivors that had electricity, that there was Sanctuary in Cupertino, California; specifically, the old Apple Inc. corporate headquarters. Many took this as a sign that their salvation was at hand. Word pasted from enclave to enclave on the Call. With iPhones, iPods, and iPads in hand the migration to Apple preceded.

After most had gathered, they found their numbers in the thousands. Not all were Applephiles, but all who heard the Call came. Many an Engineer, Coder, and Researcher had survived at the headquarters. All had lost loved ones to the plagues, but they had survived the hordes of mice by developing iBabels. The iBabel was original developed as international translators, but so much subsonic and supersonic noise was emitted objects nearby would vibrate horribly. So, when the need arose the designer, Job, set these sonic mouse traps outside the Sanctuary, causing the mice to attack each other when they came to close to the Sanctuary.

(And Job said to God, "My Ears had heard of You, but now my i’s have seen you." With these final words Job let flow his last iTune and ascended to heaven. - the book of 2 Job 3.14 ©)

Everything was fine for the next month, but as California is known to do, a massive earthquake occurred. It was the Big One everybody had been waiting decades for. It didn’t cause the coast to fall into the ocean as Hollywood depicted, but it was so severe and massive that the San Francisco Bay area actually sank into Earth. Cupertino was being submerged under the bay. The people at Apple were lucky, they had warning of the impending deluge, as hordes of mice that had repopulated Fremont and San Jose fled south. All notice a strange attribute of the mice. Each ear, on every mouse, had one small bite resembling the Apple logo on their home and sanctuary. Taking this as a sign of deliverance, most ran south, following the mice and to escape the coming flood.

While the plagues had disappeared by this time, poor nutrition, physical and mental hardships had its toll on the people. They followed the mice down the 101 to the outskirts of LA. What they found was worse destruction then they had seen since the beginning. Los Angeles was a smoldering mass of broken concrete, melted steel, and burning wood. The group from Apple continued their journey, following the swarm of mice. After passing by the burning Dodger’s Stadium they found themselves trudging along Interstate 5.

(And then, as One, they shouted “Who shall lead us?”. Then they heard the Voice of the Siri sing out as One, “Here am i!” - The book of iJones {Chap.10, verse 23} ©)

Days of traveling south through all this devastation was starting to tire them out. Then they lost sight of the swarm of mice. Some began to panic and ran head long into the night. The others followed worried for their friends or nervous to be alone. Running through some trees, most stopped before the first undamaged building they had seen in days. One girl of 15 recognized the building from memories she had of the place from a previous visit years ago.

The grass was over grown and trash was strewn everywhere. Trees had large, fallen branches and several cars had been in a fire, blackening the nearby walls, but she knew they looked upon Disneyland.

Slowly the crowd moved into the park. Compared to everything they had seen the park was in fantastic shape, and there, smiling right at them, was the face of the Mouse. They knew that it was Saint Disney that had sent the swarm of mice to bring them to this Eden. This Magical Kingdom. The people could finally sleep without worry...

(Where once God had cast Humans out of Eden for eating of the Apple, now He has restored Man by way of the Apple and His prophet Saint Disney to save them from Armageddon… - the book of Marvels 616:SL ©)

- Excerpts from the Third Testament of the Holy iBible©
Buena Vista iPublishing Anaheim, HRSD 2198

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The Professor

The Professor

Here's my entry

Flag of the Terre d'Yxnay aka Panie d'Yxnay aka Yxnain

The state is a feudality ruled by the Grand Pan on the outskirts of the ruins of Paris.
Saint Peter and his menagerie feature heavily in the local art.
The flag is based on the traditional arms of the Pan - a golden castle surmounted by 3 stars

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The Professor

The Professor

Surprised there wasn't more entries but I seem to have won.
So have at the new competition

The Professor said:
Flag Challenge 111: The Commonwealth

Your mission is to design the flag, and outline brief history, of a state popularly known as The Commonwealth.
The state was previously dominated by a single ethnos but this has now been (mostly) corrected by recent constitutional changes.

Notes and restrictions
- fantasy elements allowed
- the state can have a longer title but cannot currently include an ethnonym ie Lilliput Isles Commonwealth is acceptable but Lilliputian Commonwealth is not

Submissions close: EDIT: 2nd May(Midnight GMT)
Voting opens: 3rd May-ish
Voting closes: 10th May-ish
Click to expand...

PM or ask queries or extensions
 
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Stuyvesant

Stuyvesant

The Commonwealth of New England

The Commonwealth of New England was founded after gaining independence from the United Kingdom and was a foremost trading power in the Atlantic due to its commercial and Maritime traditions. It was ruled with an iron fist by the premier trading families of the Commonwealth who selected a Grand Mayor from among their ranks. The Lower classes did have a vote in the government; it’s just that a man with property just happened to have twenty. This continued for a good portion of the 19th Century, when along came Charles Roosevelt; Roosevelt was a charismatic and populist leader and enacted many reforms that gave everyone a vote in the Grand Mayoral election. The government was mostly left unchanged; they only left the oligarchic patrimony of North America.
 
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xt828

The Pacific Commonwealth was established out of that portion of the American Zone of Occupation of Japan which had formerly been the South Pacific Mandate. The flag is UN blue, representing both the UN under whose aegis the AZOJ operated, and the Pacific Ocean. The orange disc is a stylised island, bordered by white sand, representing all the islands of the nation, brought together as one.

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The Professor

The Professor

Here's my entry to the latest challenge:

The European Communion (Europska Kommunion) is the leading state of the International Communionist Alliance or InterKom
It formed as the Carpathian Empire collapsed into revolution following The Great War.
Initially aiming at a Europe-wide Communionist Federation, nationalistic fervour limited it to Eastern Europe; though the Nordic Communion, Finnish People’s Republic, Communion of German Republics, did ally into what became InterKom.

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