like other socialist republic, the designers of the belgian national emblem decided to use a non-traditional shape instead of the monarchist-leaning shield-and-supporters. A pentagonal one allowed to display both the lion and star without ending with the amount of empty space you would have had if it had been a simple rectangle.
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like other socialist republic, the designers of the belgian national emblem decided to use a non-traditional shape instead of the monarchist-leaning shield-and-supporters. A pentagonal one allowed to display both the lion and star without ending with the amount of empty space you would have had if it had been a simple rectangle.
Me likey. My sole two problems are "Islande" and Luxemburg (I mean that's at least the German spelling but the English and French spelling still needs an o).
I would blame the graphic designer. He sometimes subconsciously jumps between languages when tired.
United Nations of the Far East
Hi guys, my first post on here ever
Welcome to the boards. Its fun here.
Your flags are so amazing. Took my breath away. What did you use?
Would Luxembourg continue to be an independent country?
I'd expect it to be conjoined with Germany.
I'd expect it to be conjoined with Germany.
The vague idea for my "Lukewarm Peace" timeline is that the sides are simply inverted. In any case, this germany is a communist version of west germany and largely controlled by others so not in any position to annex anyone.
Howdy, Comrades!
So, yeah, this is my first post. I'm working on a Fallout fan project - "Fallout: Metropolis". No, it's not a mod like Project Brazil or anything like that. Just a little thing some friends and I are working on. ANYWAY, Fallout: Metropolis takes place in the ruins of New York City - which is surrounded by a year-long nuclear winter, and is divided into two different worldspaces: the Underground, and the New York Wasteland.
After the atomic destruction of the Middle East by the European Commonwealth, in the decades leading up to the Sino-American War, the Mayor of New York initiated a massive expansion and renovation of the New York subway system. The reasons for this expansion were three-fold. One, the skyrocketing cost of oil meant that more people were taking the subway than ever before, and the old system wasn't capable of meeting the increased demand. Two, it was seen as a way to keep all the unemployed busy and not listening to the communist sympathizers that were being suppressed in the city. Three, the writing was on the wall. War was coming. A war to end all wars. And if New York was to survive, it's salvation lay underground.
New lines were built, stations were expanded, and Vault-Tec was brought in to reinforce the walls and ceilings, and install emergency airlocks and radiation scrubbers (though a group of Vaults - connected by a separate rail line - was also built, accessible only through a labyrinthine network of utility tunnels). And thus, the New York Underground became America's largest fallout shelter.
It was finished just as the bombs dropped, in October of 2077. New York's air defense system managed to shoot down most of the bombs, but enough made it through to kill the city. Several thousand people made it underground, but most of the city's population died clawing at the closing airlock doors - screaming for God to open them, as the flashes of fire and ionizing radiation burned the flesh off their bodies. And the really unlucky ones became New York's massive Ghoul population.
The "Provisional Government of New York City" - a regime that administered almost all of the Underground - collapsed after about 30 years. This ushered in a 64-year period of constant bloodshed in the Underground known as "the Great Chaos". The Great Chaos ended with the Treaty of Vault 44, and a new political/territorial order was formalized.
Which includes the subject of this post (FINALLY! He gets to the flag!): the People's Republic of Chinatown (Oh no! More exposition! GYAAHH!).
Prior to the Great War, New York's Chinatown was a hotbed of Chinese spies and operatives, as well as native-born American communist sympathizer cells. In fact, things got so bad, that the New York National Guard was brought in to keep Chinatown under martial law.
But when the world ended, these communists ended up being the best-organized and best-armed group among the survivors that fled to Chinatown's underground to escape the fires of the apocalypse.
Some politics happened, the Great Chaos happened, and the Vault 44 Treaty happened, and the People's Republic of Chinatown was born.
Today, only half of the PRC's population is actually of Chinese descent, though almost every Chinatown citizen can speak Chinese at least as a second language. The PRC controls 13 stations, and has another five "independent" stations under its sphere of influence. In addition, they also control the vast network of tunnels and secret rooms built by the Triads and Tongs in the early 20th century. Many of Chinatown's stations are lit with paper lanterns, with walls of socialist-realist murals celebrating the values of cooperation and common struggle in the post-apocalyptic world.
Chinatown is a single-party market socialist state, run by a Ghoul named Chairman Hong. Hong was originally the leader of a Crimson Dragoon stealth unit tasked with staging assassination and sabotage operations against targets on US soil. But after the war, all Hong cared about was the safety of his newfound people. He has been in power for the last 183 years, and remains a popular leader.
So anyway, the flag of Chinatown is basically the flag of the People's Republic of China, only with the Chinese characters for "Chinatown" replacing the big star. Though Chinatown isn't Maoist anymore, they still like Maoist symbolism, and at this point, it's really more of a cultural thing, than a political thing.
So, yeah, this is my first post. I'm working on a Fallout fan project - "Fallout: Metropolis". No, it's not a mod like Project Brazil or anything like that. Just a little thing some friends and I are working on. ANYWAY, Fallout: Metropolis takes place in the ruins of New York City - which is surrounded by a year-long nuclear winter, and is divided into two different worldspaces: the Underground, and the New York Wasteland.
After the atomic destruction of the Middle East by the European Commonwealth, in the decades leading up to the Sino-American War, the Mayor of New York initiated a massive expansion and renovation of the New York subway system. The reasons for this expansion were three-fold. One, the skyrocketing cost of oil meant that more people were taking the subway than ever before, and the old system wasn't capable of meeting the increased demand. Two, it was seen as a way to keep all the unemployed busy and not listening to the communist sympathizers that were being suppressed in the city. Three, the writing was on the wall. War was coming. A war to end all wars. And if New York was to survive, it's salvation lay underground.
New lines were built, stations were expanded, and Vault-Tec was brought in to reinforce the walls and ceilings, and install emergency airlocks and radiation scrubbers (though a group of Vaults - connected by a separate rail line - was also built, accessible only through a labyrinthine network of utility tunnels). And thus, the New York Underground became America's largest fallout shelter.
It was finished just as the bombs dropped, in October of 2077. New York's air defense system managed to shoot down most of the bombs, but enough made it through to kill the city. Several thousand people made it underground, but most of the city's population died clawing at the closing airlock doors - screaming for God to open them, as the flashes of fire and ionizing radiation burned the flesh off their bodies. And the really unlucky ones became New York's massive Ghoul population.
The "Provisional Government of New York City" - a regime that administered almost all of the Underground - collapsed after about 30 years. This ushered in a 64-year period of constant bloodshed in the Underground known as "the Great Chaos". The Great Chaos ended with the Treaty of Vault 44, and a new political/territorial order was formalized.
Which includes the subject of this post (FINALLY! He gets to the flag!): the People's Republic of Chinatown (Oh no! More exposition! GYAAHH!).
Prior to the Great War, New York's Chinatown was a hotbed of Chinese spies and operatives, as well as native-born American communist sympathizer cells. In fact, things got so bad, that the New York National Guard was brought in to keep Chinatown under martial law.
But when the world ended, these communists ended up being the best-organized and best-armed group among the survivors that fled to Chinatown's underground to escape the fires of the apocalypse.
Some politics happened, the Great Chaos happened, and the Vault 44 Treaty happened, and the People's Republic of Chinatown was born.
Today, only half of the PRC's population is actually of Chinese descent, though almost every Chinatown citizen can speak Chinese at least as a second language. The PRC controls 13 stations, and has another five "independent" stations under its sphere of influence. In addition, they also control the vast network of tunnels and secret rooms built by the Triads and Tongs in the early 20th century. Many of Chinatown's stations are lit with paper lanterns, with walls of socialist-realist murals celebrating the values of cooperation and common struggle in the post-apocalyptic world.
Chinatown is a single-party market socialist state, run by a Ghoul named Chairman Hong. Hong was originally the leader of a Crimson Dragoon stealth unit tasked with staging assassination and sabotage operations against targets on US soil. But after the war, all Hong cared about was the safety of his newfound people. He has been in power for the last 183 years, and remains a popular leader.
So anyway, the flag of Chinatown is basically the flag of the People's Republic of China, only with the Chinese characters for "Chinatown" replacing the big star. Though Chinatown isn't Maoist anymore, they still like Maoist symbolism, and at this point, it's really more of a cultural thing, than a political thing.
It's... beautiful. Panasianism FTW
United Nations of the Far East
Hi guys, my first post on here ever
Also, from "Fallout: Metropolis".
This is the flag of the Grand Central Technate - a major faction in the New York Underground, centered around (you guessed it) Grand Central Station, and controlling 10 stations in the Manhattan and Brooklyn Undergrounds.
The government of Grand Central is a technocracy, run by a council of engineers, scientists and military officers. Every citizen (and immigrant) is required to take a GOAT Exam at the age of 16, to determine their place in Grand Central society. They can re-take the exam as many times as they wish, but cheating is punishable by exile. It's not a very democratic society, but people in the Fallout universe tend to be more concerned with survival, than having a say in how their society is run. And the Technate has proven itself to be quite stable. However, there is a covert war going on within Grand Central's territory, involving Institute and Brotherhood of Steel operatives. The Institute is curious as to the extent of the Technate's collaboration with the Railroad, while the Brotherhood is concerned about some of the technology Grand Central appears to be tinkering with...
This is the flag of the Grand Central Technate - a major faction in the New York Underground, centered around (you guessed it) Grand Central Station, and controlling 10 stations in the Manhattan and Brooklyn Undergrounds.
The government of Grand Central is a technocracy, run by a council of engineers, scientists and military officers. Every citizen (and immigrant) is required to take a GOAT Exam at the age of 16, to determine their place in Grand Central society. They can re-take the exam as many times as they wish, but cheating is punishable by exile. It's not a very democratic society, but people in the Fallout universe tend to be more concerned with survival, than having a say in how their society is run. And the Technate has proven itself to be quite stable. However, there is a covert war going on within Grand Central's territory, involving Institute and Brotherhood of Steel operatives. The Institute is curious as to the extent of the Technate's collaboration with the Railroad, while the Brotherhood is concerned about some of the technology Grand Central appears to be tinkering with...
These are both great, I'd like to see more sometime. Do you happen to have a map? What happened to Little Italy?
An updated version of the Royal Flag of Cambodia:
Royal Standard of Cambodia:
Royal Standard of Cambodia:
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Can someone please clean this flag up. Make it blend smoothly. & replace these colors with the bolder colors on the right. Thank you in advance!!!
Can someone please clean this flag up. Make it blend smoothly. & replace these colors with the bolder colors on the right. Thank you in advance!!!
Flag of the Congo Republic. Adopted in 1994 after gaining full independence from Belgium. From my TL.
As Kingdoms and States represented in the Council of State themselves have no "common flag", the only ones that are used by the central government are the naval ensigns, such as this war ensign:
Could anyone please make me a flag for a country I'm making in Nationstates? Its called Transcathay and I'm imagining it to have a Russo-Chinese hybrid culture.
Thanks for the feedback, guys!
As for a map of Fallout: Metropolis...probably not. A map of the Dead City would be hard enough, but a map of the New York Underground would probably be impossible for me; I already have trouble with the OTL subway map of New York - now add in all the expansions and extra lines, utility corridors and maintenance tunnels, the sewers, and the tunnels dug by the Verminkind (basically Fallout's answer to the Skaven from Warhammer Fantasy), which all constitute the New York Underground.
As for what happened to Little Italy, the stations under that neighborhood are run as a quasi-fascist state by the remnants of the pre-war New York Mafia. Their capital station looks like the "Venice" level from Metro: Last Light, only with accordion music, pizza, spaghetti, and not-so-secret police armed with Tommy Guns on patrol. They have a maritime border dispute with Chinatown in an area of the Manhattan Underground known as "The Styx" - an area of flooded tunnels, where fishermen brave Mirelurks and Radgators to bring back nets full of mutant fish.
I'll post Little Italy's flag tomorrow (I'm typing this on my phone).
As for a map of Fallout: Metropolis...probably not. A map of the Dead City would be hard enough, but a map of the New York Underground would probably be impossible for me; I already have trouble with the OTL subway map of New York - now add in all the expansions and extra lines, utility corridors and maintenance tunnels, the sewers, and the tunnels dug by the Verminkind (basically Fallout's answer to the Skaven from Warhammer Fantasy), which all constitute the New York Underground.
As for what happened to Little Italy, the stations under that neighborhood are run as a quasi-fascist state by the remnants of the pre-war New York Mafia. Their capital station looks like the "Venice" level from Metro: Last Light, only with accordion music, pizza, spaghetti, and not-so-secret police armed with Tommy Guns on patrol. They have a maritime border dispute with Chinatown in an area of the Manhattan Underground known as "The Styx" - an area of flooded tunnels, where fishermen brave Mirelurks and Radgators to bring back nets full of mutant fish.
I'll post Little Italy's flag tomorrow (I'm typing this on my phone).
Flag of the Dominion of British Congo. The X shapes are symbols representing cast copper ingots that were used as currency during the 19th and early 20th centuries. They have since become symbols for the region. There are four representing British Congo's four provinces. From my TL.
Crossposting my flag contest entry, a Quebec where French heritage is the minority. The top blue is for the old heritage, the middle red and white for more recent English heritage, and the bottom gold for unified Canada. The two stars also represent Montreal and Quebec City, the two dominant cities in the province.
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