The Final Flag Contest

[Highlander]

The day has finally come. We will now commence with our final flag round.

How this works is those who won and came runner up in the previous rounds are the only ones able to compete in this one.

Here is the list of participants:

Lordkrakin
White Rabbit
Sovereign
SleepaholicAgent
Imajin

And here is the challange.

A flag of Hanza. Imagine the Hanza League survives to modern times and becomes a corporate state.

Good luck everyone!

 

[Nicole]

Flag of the General Hanseatic-Scandinavian Corporation. The flag replaced a simpler design featuring a cross in the 1900s after a reorganization following the dissolution of the GHC's subsidiary the Corporation of Eastern England, and the merger of the Scandinavian Corporation into the GHC. The colors, red and white, are the most prevalent, and are the ancient colors of the Hansa league. The wave pattern symbolizes the ocean. The black fortress symbolizes strength, power, and dependability.

 

[Sovereign12]

Hanseatic Union von Atlantika
The Union is a Corporatocracy that started out as the Hanseatic League, but as more cities and towns around the Baltic and North Seas became members of the trading company, or became indebted to the League. The union now covers Scandinavia, Scotland, England, all of the Polish, Lithuanian, and Germanic city-states, and several provinces in Birklande (OTL NA). Minor trading ports exist in Ireland, France, and Amazonia (OTL SA).

The turning point for the HUA, was in 1395, when a combined fleet and army from the Hanseatic towns of Lubeck, Hamburg, Bergen, Riga, Danzig, and Falsterbo sacked Visby, which had been in the hands of the Victual Brothers. Lubeck, Hamburg, & Falsterbo each sent representatives to administer the rebuilding of Visby under agreed upon guidelines. This arrangement was the first step to a true corporate organization and ended up becoming profitable for all three towns.

Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, attempts to arrest David Stewart in 1399. But the future king escapes capture with the help of loyal men. They first flee to England, then to Bergen in Norway. In 1406, after long negotiations with some leaders of the local Hansa and help from the mayor of London, Richard Whittington, he retook Scotland with a Hanseatic navy and an English army. But the price he had to pay was high. Scotland was now in effect, a satellite of England, plus several major towns were opened up to the Hanseatic League.

In 1452 a caravel under the captaincy of Hans Haralssen left Holar in Iceland to return to Inverness with seal furs. An artic storm disabled the sails and the ship was carried by the East Greenland current to Beothock (OTL Newfoundland). After spending three weeks repairing the sails the caravel he attempted to sail the coast to figure out where he was and to gather more supplies. Another storm would prevent that. A noreaster would blow up the coast of Birklande. The North Atlantic current then drove them to the coast of Ireland. Only the captain and eight men survived the voyage.

News of this feat reached the Hansa in Hamburg. Within a year, four caravels again under the command of Captain Haralssen, sailed the Arctic route he thought he had gone. In 1458, he sailed again and founded the town of New Hamburg (OTL Newport, RI). The town would eventually extend to become the Hanseatic province of Kardinilia, named after the birds first seen in this new land.

Venice and the League become strong trading partners in 1597. Together they dominated trade in the Mediterranean and the north Atlantic.

Today the HUA is the most powerful corporation on the planet. It has rivalry with the Venician-Turkish Oligarchy and the Qing Industry and Trade Dominion.

The flag is red with a white rhombus. The rhombus is used here as a symbol for the for directions of a compass. Set within the rhombus is a kogge, symbol of the early Hanseatic League. The gear represents the power of working together (in business). The mute swan is the symbol of all the European territory within the HUA and/or its Protestant memebers. The cardinal is the symbol for the territory in Birklande and/or its Catholic Memebers. The capital H is the corporate logo of the Hanseatic government and business houses. The flags, less the H, are flown on homes and other structures.

 

[follow_by_white_rabbit]

Hanse Wirtschaft Union

HWU was create as universal pan-germanic states trade union based upon historical Hansa in pos Nazi Europe.

In 1952 when the second world war ended finally, Chancellor Göring (who replaced assassinated Adolph Hitler and singed peace treaty with West Allies) create this quasi – international institution in order to prevent possibility of economical independence movements in controlled satellite states.

Created officially to help in reconstruction after war in West and create economical “border” with USSR (with was still in war with Germany), became source of great deal of goods and work market form German occupied states.

In 1987 the HWU gained monopoly Foreign Trade in all over the Germanic zone. Nowadays is one of the strongest economical and political organizations controlled actually all of the Law and Trade life in. In 1992 changed it’s name to more universal “Nord Union”.

The USA and British Empire Commonwealth politics blamed this organization for creating massive cartel system, lack of liberalism and spreading of huge propaganda neglecting independence movements and history (especially those parts connected with WWII).

Capitol: Dazing
Member States: Germania (III Right colloquial name), Vichi State, Vinland (Finland), Norway, Protektorate Polens, Protektorate Bohemien und Moravien, Estland (Bellarus, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia), Nova Westphalia (West Ukraine), Hungary (joined in 1987), Romania (joined in 1987).
Currency: Neu Hanse Gulden

 

[Highlander]

And the winner of AH.com's first official Flag Contest is . . .


Sovereign12!!!

Kudos, and thanks for everyone who participated in this whole contest. Couldn't have been done without everyone.