Weekly Flag Challenge: Discussion & Entries

Augustus Montes

Democratic Republic of Lotharingia

Flag for the Democratic Republic of Lortharingia

After Operation Barbarossa failed to bring the USSR to it's knees, as Stalin had heeded the advice of Richard Sorge, and took the necessary precautions in order to meet the attack, it was met by a powerful well cordinated counter attack on all fronts, massacring German soldiers, and pushing the Germans back at the end of 1942. By the end of 1943, the Soviet Union was entering occupied France, or what was left of it and it's occupiers. Spain had long since joined the allies, and an attack on occupied France was also underway. However, the USSR had already pushed over most over Europe, including all of the Balkans and Central Europe, and had split the Italian Peninsula with American Forces to the south.

Finally, in 1944, Germanys last Field Marshall and his forces were captured, and he forced to admit defeat at the Treaty of Strasbourg. It was here that borders were disscussed and argued between democracy and communism, and finally decided. Soviet Soldiers would be marching back as far as 150 kilometers to newly created occupation areas. The far west Soviet Xone was known as the Lortharingian Zone, and would later go on to unite the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and slivers of France and Germany as the Democratic Republic of Lortharingia.

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fabrondi

I had imagined this for a surviving Spanish Netherlands, but it kinda fits this contest.
The colours and the Burgundy cross are taken from the alleged Spanish Netherlands flag, but this is a vertical republican tricolour.
Incidentally the colours fits Alsace and Lorraine as well.

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Sovereign12

De Australasië Confederatie

After WW2 it was decided by the British and Americans that a barrier must be placed between France and Germany. At first called Lotharingia during the early developement of the state, this nation would come to call itself De Australasië Confederatie (The Confederation of Australasia). Made up of the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, a renewed Republic of Alsace-Lorraine, and the West Rhineland*. The remaining portions of the American, British, and French Zones would be rejoined to form the Republic of Germany...

...In 1952 the UN's International Court of Justice was established in Luxenbourg City. Luxembourg City was chosen after the European Coal and Steel Community institutions, known today as the European Court of Justice, chose to have their seat in Liège...

...It is ironic that the CA was formed as a bulwark against a once powerful Germany from conquering western Europe with the threat of Communism to the East and the Iron Curtain that fell across much of Europe...

* West Rhineland is made up of parts of Baden-Wurttemberg and North Rhine Westphalia together with Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate.


The flag of the CA has the French blue and German Gold divided by a white trapezoid. The white trapezoid is representative of a new light in Europe after the Second World War and can be thought of as a search light seeking peace. It has also come to be known as a line across Europe, with the sword representing strength of a united nation.

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Rubberduck3y6

Flag of the Confederation of Lorraine (known as Lothringen in German and Dutch). The Confederation's three official languages - Dutch, French and German are represented by the colours orange, blue and yellow respectively in the flag. The diagonal stripe design is 'in between' France's vertical stripes and German's horizontal stripes, with the direction of the stripe the same as the flag of French Lorraine. The while 'stripe' is 'half' of the Cross of Burgundy - the last entity to rule (most) of the land covered by the Confederation. The six 'barbs' on the cross can also represent the six states that make up the Confederation - Alsace-Lorraine, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Rhineland and Saarland.

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Whanztastic

I suggest...

British Federation Flag (with no Union Jack on it?)

or something similar!

Comprises of whatever territory you wish (Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, Newfoundland, Canada, Nigeria, India, Malaysia, etc.)
 

Lord Grattan

The flag of the Federal Republic of Lotharingia (officially unfurled for the first time on May 8, 1947 - the second anniversary of V-E Day):

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actaeon

The Lotharingian Confederation was the first suggested name for the union of states, designed along federal lines inspired by the USA, to form a buffer between France and Germany following World War II.

The name was unpopular among the peoples of the suggested new state, many feeling that it was too backward-looking, while they wanted to look to the future. In the competitions organised to design a flag, there was a similar will to break away from designs of the past, and to promote the concept of 'unity in diversity' which underpinned the nascent state.

The name which drew most support initially was Union of European Nations and States, but this had its critics for its unwieldiness, and once a shorter version had been proposed, ironically by the British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, it stuck: the new state would be known as the European Union.

The flag eventually chosen drew on the colours of the states that formed it, but in a new and radically different design:

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ah-sue

I really don't like 'national' flags with heraldic devices on them, but this time I've yielded to temptation. Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg have used the Lion, Germany and France the Eagle ..... so why not use that fabled composite beast the Gryphon/Griffin? OK so a bit of licence as Le Coq is probably more relevant to the 20th Century, but the French Empires did use the Eagle.

The flag incorporates colours on the flags of the constituent regions (nations in OTL).

(I've posted my 'reject' designs in Flag Thread II)

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Glen

Glen

Moderator
The Flag of Lotharingia combined the colors of the Belgian and Dutch (and incidentally, the French and German) flags with the diagonality and symbols of Alsace and Lorraine to create the new nation's flag.

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Rubberduck3y6

Based on the gambling reference in the challenge post, here's the flag of JAQCPOT, showing its 'BlaqcJaqc' emblem. The Joint Association of Quality Casinos and Performers' Orbital Territory was one of the first privately owned orbital space stations to be launched, quickly challenging the more traditional gambling centres on Earth such as Las Vegas and Monte Carlo. Outside of any country's jurisdiction, JAQCPOT is now the premier playground for billionaires, trillionaires and those so rich they've stopped counting, offering unimaginable prizes, free-flowing champagne and beyond luxurious accommodation, all complete with stunning 360° panoramas of Earth and the cosmos.

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ah-sue

GIOCATORIA

The Republic of Giocatoria was founded in 2014 when, following the sensational exit of Italy from that year’s World Cup, the island of Lucicudi, one of the Aeolian Islands, exercised its right to declare itself an independent nation. That right had been granted by King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies in 1848 when, following an attempt by Sicily to secede from his Kingdom, the Lucicudians supported the King and supplied him with money and weapons. Although Ferdinand’s action seemed out of keeping with his behaviour at the time, it is believed by some historians that the Lucicudians had arranged to keep ready a fast ship were the king to have been deposed and forced to flee. The right to independence was to be effective from the date of Ferdinand’s death.

The entitlement to independence was challenged by the Italian government despite rulings in the island’s favour by both the Corte di Cassazione and the Corte Costituzionale. The issue was finally resolved when the new nation offered a ‘double or nothing’ game of poker to the Italian leader Fabio Scommessoni – who accepted and won the prize of 400 billion Euros, although it has been suggested that his opponent, Marco Truffatori, deliberately lost the game.

Giocatoria is a lottocracy where every 5 years all the major government positions are decided by selecting citizens' names at random. The head of government, the Banchiero Principale, may however stay on for a second term if he can throw 3 successive double sixes of the dice at a special ceremony held during the last month of his normal term of office. Now internationally renown as the major centre for gambling, anonymous account banking, no taxes, no extradition treaties and free ice cream, Giocatoria is one of the wealthiest nations in the world.

The flag of the republic was approved on 1 April 2016 (when the nation formally adopted the name Giacatoria) and features 21 horizontal stripes plus a canton bearing the skull and crossbones within a roulette wheel and a different card suite symbol in each corner. The white skull and crossbones on a black background was chosen as it was used extensively by pirates and was known as the Black Jack flag – although that flag is popularly known as the Jolly Roger some experts believe that name originally referred to a red flag with that motif (thus corrupted from the French Jolie Rouge, ‘Pretty Red’)

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Lord Grattan

The Order of Jesus' Apostles arose in London, England, in the 15th Century, during the terrible pandemic known as the "Black Death". Several laymen came together, and under the direction of a parish priest named Christopher comforted and cared for the sick, dying and grieving. They were known for their ability to articulate the scriptures and for the care they took as they helped bury the dead. Their movement grew, spreading rapidly throughout the British Isles and to mainland Europe. Known as the "Apostolic Brothers", the OJA became an official Church Order in 1472.

The flag of the Order of Jesus' Apostles:

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Dutchie

Twin Jacks of Buda and Pest

The flag of Buda and Pest, the twin cities overseen by the twin Jacks, a legendary set of brothers that built rival cities on either sides of the Danube. Rivalries have fallen away long ago, and now the bridges that join the two are denoted by the yellow bars.

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