Hello again, and welcome to another one of WhiteDragon25's Flag Posts! Today I have eight flags to share, two of them conventional nation-state flags, and six that are
UN-conventional "International Zone" flags! …Get it? Because
UN, as in
United Nations? …Yes, I know, my jokes are terrible. Moving on:
The first two flags here are for the Sahel Federation and the Levantine Federal Republic, the designs of which I recreated from the "Formable Nations" mod's... well, formable nations' flags you get when you form the "Sahel" and "Levant" when your ideology is Democratic. The Levantine Federal Republic's flag was actually somewhat difficult to recreate, as I had to work off what I could see of the in-game flag's image, which is
much smaller than the 900x600px image you get from me. This was the best approximation I could determine, but I think it works out pretty well for its intended theme of a Levant that has its three principle home religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - peacefully coexisting in the same country.
Speaking of that...
The first of my six UN International Zone-themed flags happens to be for Jerusalem: where the rest of the Israel and Palestine is unified as a single federalized state, Jerusalem is specifically excluded from being either side's sovereign territory and instead is an UN-administered International Zone freely accessible to all Jews, Christians, and Muslims equally, which is represented in the flag here by the Lion of Juda (representing the physical city itself) holding up a flag
itself, which has the three symbols of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam combined together (incidentally in the same pattern as on the LFR flag seen above) in the white-and-blue UN colors signifying peace.
Next we have a flag for an International Zone on the other side of the world - which, as you might've already guessed from the design, is for the Panama Canal.
Now going
back to the Mediterranean, this next flag is for the Suez Canal International Zone. The design here is inspired by the city of Suez's
actual flag, with the flame replaced with the wavy line representing water.
Still in the neighborhood of the Mediterranean (but now on the other side), we have the flag for the UN International Zone of the Strait of Gibraltar, encompassing both sides of the strait on the Iberian Peninsula and Morocco. The symbolism here is twofold: the two mountains jutting out of the water facing across from each other represent the "Pillars of Hercules", the name of the straits from ancient times; and the castle with a key hanging on it is from the
real-life flag of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.
The second-to-last flag here is for the UN International Zone of the Turkish Straits, otherwise known as the Bosporus Strait and the Dardanelles Strait. The symbolism here comes from the flag of the
International Straits Commission, an agency that was operated by the UN's predecessor the League of Nations, from 1923 until the 1936
Montreux Convention.
Lastly, here we have the flag of the UN International Zone of the Strait of Hormuz, the waterway that crosses between Iran and Oman, which is represented here by their national symbols on opposite sides of a waterway. Though now that I think about it, in the custom alt-history map I made all these in mind for, Oman no longer
exists as a separate country anymore, now being a part of the Kingdom of Hashemite Arabia, so really, using the Omani national emblem here is
really inaccurate... Eh, I'll fix it later...
Anyways, that's all that I have for now. Until next time!