NationStates Flag Bracket II (Congratulations to Albali!)

[The Cosmic Mainframe]

I'm sorry, but the Compression Artifacts on Nova City's flag are just screwing with my eyes. My vote goes to FA

Edit: On a different note, what happens if two flags are tied?

Paradeavenlistan is correct. There will be a three-way match.

Given how large the turnout has been so far, I think a tie is unlikely. Although it is going to be close.

[New Solaurora]

I'm sorry, but the Compression Artifacts on Nova City's flag are just screwing with my eyes.

Yeah sorry about that. It was too big to be displayed so I had to shrink it down which effed up the quality a tad.

I must have missed your edit, sorry! It will be updated.

Grazie!

[The Cosmic Mainframe]

I'm sorry, but the Compression Artifacts on Nova City's flag are just screwing with my eyes.

Yeah sorry about that. It was too big to be displayed so I had to shrink it down which effed up the quality a tad.

I must have missed your edit, sorry! It will be updated.

Grazie!

You're welcome!

You can scale it down without compressing it. Just make sure you are saving it as PNG, not JPG or WEBP. The forums don't have a high limit on file size (otherwise I wouldn't be able to use VZ's 20 megabyte GIF). The main concern is resolution.

[Bloodshade]

Personally, I'm voting for Fallen Albali's flag due to the solid colour scheme and gorgeous emblem which is accompanied by an explanation for its meaning and symbolism. I do admire that Fallen Albali's design is a sequel of Albali Republic's design so 10 points to Gryffindor for that

As for New Solaurora, the colour scheme is most certainly agreeable, with a simple yet beautiful design. However, the emblem is the issue for me. It looks like a normal distribution curve could be drawn on it and I can't get that image out of my head. However, I do enjoy the fact that it's a representation of a significant building in your lore but I feel like there's more potential to be exploited with your emblem design. Just my two cents.

In any case, I admire both flags but I'll have to lend my vote to Albali

[Diarcesia]

Nova City. Because Art Deco.

Edit: Here's the symbolisms

Duolin is the country of Many Forests (多林国, Duolinguo). Its national animal is the green owl, and its flag was determined via vexillology contest! The top four submissions are the below:

Honor and Legacy
Green: The forests and the farmlands
Pale yellow/gold: Milk, honey, and bounties of the land
Dark purple: The people as stewards of nature and keepers of its harmony; honor
Logo: Stylized death mask of its founder. This is a Chinese-themed nation, so this symbol is adopted as a special Chinese character representing it.

Daylight
White: Clarity and truth
Three stars: The brightest stellar trio in the night sky as seen from Duolin, taken as an omen by its founders to settle there.
Spread wing outlined with dark gold: Freedom for its people to make their own living in the land, and a reference to the green owl (it's not green because it's overridden by the gold symbolism)
Gold: The symbiosis of the people and the resources of the country that ensures prosperity.

Midnight
Three stars: The brightest stellar trio in the night sky as seen from Duolin, taken as an omen by its founders to settle there.
Blue: Tranquility and the many facets of life
Blue stripes on yellow: The four main rivers that traverse the land to the sea
Triangle at the bottom: Vision and resolve. The intended visual effect is for the viewer to imagine himself in a path moving forward to the horizon during nighttime. A reference to the story of Duolin's founding.

All are One
Red: The warriors
Yellow: The merchants
Purple: The priesthood
Green: The farmers, artisans, craftsmen. Those who produce resources
White star: The four historical categories of citizens work together for a common purpose (i.e. their colors combine)

[The Cosmic Mainframe]

Nova City (by New Solaurora) defeats Fallen Albali 21-17.
Another victory for New Solaurora, although it came very close to a tie!

Top 128 Match 12
Researchers That Discovered Hiems vs Six Lunar Duchies (by Glurponia)
Vote for your favorite flag and, if you want, explain your preference in the thread!

Submissions are now completely closed. Updates to existing flags and descriptions are allowed, so long as your flag has not been voted on yet.

Researchers That Discovered Hiems
Gold: wealth, special place
Blue: Ice and rivers in country
Black: land
Snowflake: symbol of the country

A highly symmetric flag, science

Six Lunar Duchies
Flag of the Six Lunar Duchies. What if Austria-Hungary lasted into the 2200's and had permanent moon colonies- one for each member state?

My opinion: Both are mediocre in terms of design. The ripple didn't bother me too much last time Hiems submitted, but this time it does enough for my to vote for Glurponia's submission.

[Paradeavenlisian States]

Well, frankly, I couldn't care about the ripple effect on any flag since, in most, if not all cases, the ripple effect would never really be implemented on the actual flag design. Like Valentine Z mentioned earlier, its simply just an ''after-effect''. Besides, the ripples are nothing more than just creases on the flag(as is the case for any other piece of cloth) which are made when it is either waved in the wind or when layed out on a surface. Henceforth, I always try my best to ignore the ripple effect regardless of whether its shown on the flag or not.

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That being said though, this one is a little hard to decide on. While the colour scheme of RTDH doesn't feel that appealing(even without the ripple effect), SLD's flag is a bit more complicated due to the crown. However, I might give this to SLD since the symbolism and colour scheme is very fitting, both in terms of meaning(which I can tell even if the user didn't exactly give the meaning) and concept and while both designs do have some flaws, certain aspects of RTDH's flag do feel quite unnecessary if I am to be honest.

[The Cosmic Mainframe]

I ran into the character limit for the OP, so here are some of the submissions:

Kingdom of Velosia - Top 128
A simple tricolour, defaced with the lesser arms of the Kingdom of Velosia. From left to right, the individual colours represent the blue sea of the Velosian Isles, the iconic Velosian tidal beaches and the expansive autumnal forests that once covered the archipelago. Atop the shield is the royal crown of Velosia, worn by Velosian monarchs for almost a millennia. Prominent upon the shield itself is the golden lion of Ryburt de Callian, the personal standard of the foreign conqueror who subdued Velosia and founded the current Velosian royal house. The quartered design underneath comprises the green and grey banner of the House of Callian and the burgundy lion of the Kingdom of Sutharic, holding the golden war axe of the Kingdom of Ethalund (both of which were powerful pre-conquest states during the petty kingdoms period). Finally, the sailing ship underneath represents the nation's great seafaring tradition.

Confederate American SU - Top 128

The Zravvisk - Top 128
Ever since the Zravvisk were thrown into the stars, they needed a way to identify their ships. They of course ignored all technological solutions to this problem and instead painted the noses of their ships. At first it was just random markings, but eventually they started settling on a stylized version of themselves. Now the zravvisk dragon is mostly standardized and shown proudly on all Armada ships and personal. Technically has never been on a piece of cloth called a flag, but it is the only symbol the Armada uses to represent itself.

Galtonel - Top 128
After successfully resisting the 1070 Norman invasion, Galtonel adopted this flag. The seven points of the star represent the 7 tribes that warded off the Normans. The green represents the seas, and the white represents clouds. According to the more nationalist interpretation, green symbolizes the natural equality and beauty of the Galton people, while the white represents the righteousness of its laws. Orange has always been a national color: the combination of red for blood and yellow for wealth.

High Umbra - Top 128

Sapporo Hyperspace Riftgate Laboratory - Top 128

Hugstopia - Top 128

La Fiorita - Top 128

Zeritae - Top 128
This flag is what was used after the end of the rule of dictator authoritarian politician Aleksi Sxrifa. The colors are traditional Zeritan colors, used since the founding of the nation.

Alsunova - Top 128

Jinjaristan - Top 128
Jinjaristan is my creation and it took me awhile to design. Anyways Jinjaristan is a country based off of India but is more or less like the US in the ethnic make up of the citizens. The one thing I did bring over from the real world to here is the complex relationship between India and Pakistan but instead of those nations it's Jinjaristan and Neonistan that hate each other.

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Wapistan - Top 128

Denver Egypt - Top 128

Gran Houstonia - Top 128

Kongfuzia - Top 128
The colour blue and red on the flag represents heaven and earth, the golden dragon holding 4 golden balls represents the nation's power and wealth, the ying-yang or taijitu symbol represents harmony and balance, the word "孔夫子亜" is the Chinese character transcription of the country's name that was taken from the name of Confucius "孔夫子".

Black Party - Top 128
Flag of The Black Party. Kind of a throwback. A lot of people like this one I personally don't. Crosses represent religion the black represents, well, you get the idea.

Awesomeland - Top 128

Haruhi Japan - Top 128

Five Nights At Wario's - Top 128

The Ludwigan Empire - Top 128

The Regional Triumvirate - Top 128

HUElavia - Top 128

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Nappon of Threefold Riches - Top 128

1. The flag is set on a white background to symbolize the sky, while the black lines symbolize the earth beneath it.
2. The red line between the black lines symbolizes the blood soaked into the earth over the country's bloody history.
3. The red and blue yin-yang symbol represents the sunrise for which the country is named rising over the waves which for so long had divided the country.
4. The imposition of the purple Ryukyu symbol overtop the yin-yang symbolizes both the unification of Opkunshima under the Ryukyu kings and the rejection of dualism in favour of a new philosophical "tripartism".
5. The black rectangles at the top left and right serve partially as visual balance against the otherwise bottomheavy flag, but they're primarily guides for flag fastening. After all, the people of Nappon are nothing if not practical*.

^{*=This is mostly just a common government talking point; Nappombitoes are just as practical as other people.}

Demirestad - Top 128

Newark Aristocracy - Top 128

The East Pacific - Top 128
Credit to The Church of Satan - not made or used by Newark Aristocracy.

Fedele - Top 66
Credit to Fedele - not made or used by Newark Aristocracy.

Pencil Sharpeners 2 - Top 64
The black symbolises the black fur on pandas. The white symbolises the white fur on pandas. The panda in the centre symbolises pandas.

Third ZSeparatists - Top 64

Atheist Democratic Freehold - Top 128

Liberal Free Socialist State - Top 128

Zaiapsol - Top 128

Lura - Top 64
The Luran flag is in a 1:2 ratio.
The flag is divided into three equally-sized vertical stripes, coloured white, white and black from left to right.
The two white thirds represent the knowledge already obtained by Lura.
The black third represents the knowledge yet to be learned by our population.
Taking up the right half of the leftmost third of the flag is a rainbow band of seven short horizontal stripes, which each represent a province of Lura. Each is coloured for the respective province's state colour, being their distinct pigment colour only they produce, and have become major exports, popular as dyes for the vibrance of the colours.

Ssejekistan - Top 64
The current flag was adopted after the Second Serican Occupation, to rejoice at our freedom. The blue represents the sky, justice, and liberation. The green represents hope and the forests. The white represents the snow on Ssejekistan's mountaintops. The flame emblem in the middle is a symbol of Ssejekistani polytheism, the national religion of Ssejekistan.

Tor'bana'ing - Top 128
The black stars in the middle represent the five ethnic groups in Tor'bana'ing (the Bana, the Wusa, the Ing, the Tor, and the Chinese). The big yellow circle is the sun, and the rest of the colors were chosen to make the flag match the Pan-African colors.

Ruritane - Top 128

Greenwichian Arcadia - Top 64
Taken from the factbook.

• The white stands for sincerity, defiance, dazzling integrity and determination to uphold these ideals.
• The green stands for constructive approach, hope, free thought, natural beauty and possibly for eco-friendliness.
• The compass emblem, possibly designed by Greenwich herself, reminiscent of both the cartographer's rose and Polaris, represents the hope and dedication of Arcadian people to chart and pave the way to the new world of Reason, Progress and Freedom.

Parthenia - Top 64

• The seal with the fallen crown symbolizes the 'overthrow of tyranny' motif present on the seal of RL-Virginia;
• The green stripe, which stands for pristine natural beauty, is shaped like P character for 'Parthenia';
• The blue stripe on the right (East) stands for the Atlantic.

Reconstructed Arcadia - Top 128
Something from my darker and edgier subproject.

Hakinda Herseyi Duymak istiyorum - Top 128

United Republic of Cyprus - Top 128
Red Tint:Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus #E30A17
Yellow tint:South Cyprus #D57800
Purple Tint:Turkish Flag #E30A17 and Greek Flag #0D5EAF mix of colors #783363 represents the turkish greek brotherhood
Symbol:Represents peace on the island

United Republic of Yugoslavia - Top 64

Crimean Republic - Top 128

Glurponia - Top 128
The 'Tricolor' takes elements of design, symbolism, and color from each of the Coalition's primary cultures.

The People's Arab Union - Top 128
From a universe where Soviet influence was focused on the Middle East more than Africa. The PAU owns most of the Arabian Peninsula and has a perpetual rivalry with its Western-influenced counterpart of the North Levant State.

This flag's design started with the idea of the Islamic crescent/sickle, then it was just a matter of choosing the order of the Pan-Arab colors and adding the shahadah to fill in the empty space.

Six Lunar Duchies - Top 64
Flag of the Six Lunar Duchies. What if Austria-Hungary lasted into the 2200's and had permanent moon colonies- one for each member state?

Liberty Federation of Aurevbush - Top 128
On 13th of Leandry, 131 ALA, when word broke out that the Imperial Prateorian guard prohibited further gatherings at urban areas, Leo Gouto and his Rebellion decided that maybe the better solution would be to break away from the kingdom and form their own nation independent of its realms. The New Republican Symbolism Committee held a month long contest to determine what flag would be suitable in representing the new born nation's fight for individualism and sovereingty. The design shown here won by a landslide.

13 red and white stars represented the thirteen inviolable rights or 13 provinces of the kingdom that separated first (contrary to the popular claim to socialism). The red representing the blood and sweat driven from industrial workers and soldiers, the white representing the hope and purity of homewives and nurses, and the green represented the land and vegitation planted and reaped by farmers across the land. Today, it is used as a symbol of Aurevbush's first struggle for liberty in a historical era and can be found in many civil rights protests across the country.

United Republic of Freedonia
Up the Snake! (thank you almonaster to make the snake's eye red when i didn't even asked you to do that, it's fucking metal)

Libstasia - Top 32
This is called the flag for the nation of Libstasia, but is also known as the "forward" flag, with the two red arrows representing the leftist (red) movement taking the country forward, with the SocDem rose being an obvious nod to that as well.

Drongonia - Alternate - Top 16

South Pacific - Top 16

Norcott - Alternate - Top 64

Astoria - Main Flag - Top 64

• The six-star circle represents each of the states that make up the republic.
• The centre star represents the unity of the federation [although since 1900 can also refer to the capital's territory - for a real-world example, think DC].
• The blue background represents the north Atlantic ocean which surrounds the country.
• The white stripes represent the uninterrupted peace that the nation has enjoyed since time immemorial.
• The red stripes represents the popular uprising of 1643, which overthrew the then-extant monarchy & replaced it with one of the world's first republics

Astoria - Alternate - Top 128

• This flag has the same features as the official flag; however, the semicircle of stars have been replaced with the national coat of arms, which depict the original four states of the federation.

Czisra - Top 64

• The alternating white & blue ribbons represent the Stečé river, popularly described as its "national" river.
• The white background represents the people's desire for happiness.
• The symbol in the flag's hoist represents the Žamij monument in Strámat's^{the capital} Kábraj Square; before 1990, a hammer-and-sickle symbol took the place of the red star at the top.

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Azania - Main flag - Top 128

Azania - Alternate flag - Top 32
The black, yellow, and green evoke pan-african colors, while the bottom right part of the flag contains a representation of the flag of the South African Republic (one of the Boer republics). The overlapping of these symbols along the green stripe represents hope and unity for both black and white Azanians.

The stars represent Azania's three official capitols and their placement roughly aligns with their geographic position on a map. The ascending number of points on each star represents progress.

Sorry, everyone! I will update this post if I have to remove any further submissions. If Flag Bracket III happens, I'll definitely have to include some extra filler posts for submissions so this won't happen.

[Vidinaz]

Yeah... I'm voting for the Six Lunar Duchies this time. While the flag of the RTDH is better-designed, the Researchers clearly show they are more of an academic bunch than artistic here.

Hiems's submission looks rather busy, and the wide sweeping ends of the yellow stripe is unnecessary additions. That said, there's visible effort put into it. It's an acquired taste, I'll say.

For the SLD, I think the current design is great. You just need to put a thematically fitting contrast to the black color, and it'll be ten times better. (See the Vatican's, the gold and white makes for an excellent combo with the two crests)

Edit: Reposted this because I thought TCM had moved on with the next matchup.

[Greenwichian Arcadia]

RTDH this time, but only for now. Ripples with the dominantly black flag look weird.

[Hakinda Herseyi Duymak istiyorum]

I want to add meaning to the flag

Red Tint:Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus #E30A17
Yellow tint:South Cyprus #D57800
Purple Tint:Turkish Flag #E30A17 and Greek Flag #0D5EAF mix of colors #783363 represents the turkish greek brotherhood
Symbol:Represents peace on the island

[Fallen Albali]

Ah, I fully expected to lose that last match from the beginning - I'm flattered and surprised it was at least somewhat close though

Anyway, I'd give my vote to Six Lunar Duchies - there's something about their flag I really like. It's unconventional for sure, but I think that just adds to the whole thing. Sure it could be better, but nothing is perfect

[Diarcesia]

I'm not surprised if this will be a close contest.

The blue in Hiems's flag is a dealbreaker for me, vexillology-wise. However, I really like its unique layout. Increasing the blue's darkness (like a deep navy or midnight blue) can help.

Voting for the Six Lunar Duchies.

Btw: /r/vexillology has a Lunar Flag contest

[The Cosmic Mainframe]

I want to add meaning to the flag

(Image)
Red Tint:Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus #E30A17
Yellow tint:South Cyprus #D57800
Purple Tint:Turkish Flag #E30A17 and Greek Flag #0D5EAF mix of colors #783363 represents the turkish greek brotherhood
Symbol:Represents peace on the island

Updated!

Also: It seems that La Fiorita wasn't the only flag I missed in the chaos of day 1. Zeritae's submission for Alsunova was also missed. So I've removed my own submission for Guaylandia in order that they may compete.

I'm not willing to remove TCM's flag, so I really hope I didn't miss anyone else!

[Bloodshade]

To be honest, both flags are rather unconventional, to say the least, but if I'm going to pick one or the other, I'm going for 'Six Lunar Duchies'. It's simple and interesting to observe. Hiem's flag is just too messy for me to pick. Just my two cents.

[Paradeavenlisian States]

Oh wow, at this point, this could actually result in a tie despite of the whole debate being almost fully in favour of SLD's flag. Still, you never though.

EDIT:Oh, never mind. I could be wrong.

[The Cosmic Mainframe]

Six Lunar Duchies (by Glurponia) defeats Researchers That Discovered Hiems 20-18.
Match 12 was almost our first tie! But some last minute voters came in and voted for the Six Lunar Duchies. Congratulations Glurponia!

Top 128 Match 13
Glurponia vs Duolin - Daylight (by Diarcesia)
Vote for your favorite flag and, if you want, explain your preference in the thread!

Submissions are now completely closed. Updates to existing flags and descriptions are allowed, so long as your flag has not been voted on yet.

Glurponia
The 'Tricolor' takes elements of design, symbolism, and color from each of the Coalition's primary cultures.

Duolin - Daylight
White: Clarity and truth
Three stars: The brightest stellar trio in the night sky as seen from Duolin, taken as an omen by its founders to settle there.
Spread wing outlined with dark gold: Freedom for its people to make their own living in the land, and a reference to the green owl (it's not green because it's overridden by the gold symbolism)
Gold: The symbiosis of the people and the resources of the country that ensures prosperity.

My opinion: Duolin's flag has an interesting retro feel to it. Glurponia's flag is more conventional, but I can't honestly say I like it more than Duolin's. So Duolin it is.

[Onocarcass]

I'm going Duolin here, I quite like the design, and the colors work pretty well on it. I also can't shake the feeling that I've seen the other flag, or very close variants of it like 1000 times on here.

[Paradeavenlisian States]

I'm voting for Duolin as there is just something about the design that I really admire and the colours not only work well, but also give the aesthetic and vibe of a so-called ''daylight flag''. Glurponia's flag, on the other hand, may be more realistic looking(in terms of design and concept that it seems to be trying to give off) but the design just feels a bit too conventional as there have been quite a few variants of the design that I've seen before.

[Drongonia]

I'll be voting for Duolin in this round

[Sildorian Empire]

I'll be honest. Glurponia looks better imo.

[-Astoria]

Duolin's much nicer.

[Thakia]

im voting for Duolin because it has an amazing flag with an extremely cool design and in my opinion Glurponia seems too generic.

[Hammer Britannia]

Duolin's got my vote. It just looks nicer IMO

[The Cosmic Mainframe]

Duolin - Daylight (by Diarcesia) defeats Glurponia 23-5.
Congratulations Diarcesia! This is the first time vote totals have dropped under 30, but they remain high.

Top 128 Match 14
Two-Oh-Four (by Dukin Donuts) vs Sapporo Hyperspace Riftgate Laboratory
Vote for your favorite flag and, if you want, explain your preference in the thread!

Submissions are now completely closed. Updates to existing flags and descriptions are allowed, so long as your flag has not been voted on yet.

Two-Oh-Four

Sapporo Hyperspace Riftgate Laboratory

My opinion: SHRL's flag is somewhat shamelessly a combination of two flags, and not in a particularly creative manner. Nonetheless, they get my vote as the individual flags are better than Two-Oh-Four's.