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[NSFW] Catalogue of interesting but unused flags #4

Open moretrim opened 5 years ago

moretrim commented 5 years ago

This contains representations of historical, historically-proposed, and pseudo-historical flags of fascist governments or administrations. View at your own discretion.

The following assumes knowledge of how government-specific flags work.

What to do

This issue is for:

The catalogue

To be classified

Not really an official and/or national flag

These don't really fit their tag. Unless an interesting alt-history case can be made, they should probably left alone. They would still be achievable in really, really unusual circumstances (e.g. vassal of a theocracy).

Contemporary flags

Sometimes a given country has used more than one flag during the period covered in the game, even while under the same(ish) form of government. That means that only one can be used for that ideology, and another can be put as the unspecific flag—where it won't be used (under normal circumstances anyway).

Monarchies can get away with two contemporary flags because the game has three stock monarchy governments—one can point to the unspecific flag.

But for other ideologies the only way to 'remedy' this is by adding another form of government, allowing one ideology to double up thus using all possible 5 flags; or by adding more tags for even more flags. Neither option is really reasonable for just one more flag, so these are just here for reference and aren't active task items.

Older flags

Flags that were in use before the period covered by the game. Scotland’s above is a good example, and just like it I’m of the opinion that using it for absolute monarchy for countries don’t start as one is a good idea. Enforcing absolute monarchy is quite hard to achieve so I already consider it an alt-historical path, which is why I feel it’s appropriate to add a special flag for the occasion.

Non- or partially-implemented dependencies and puppets

Some countries use special flags for when they're a vassal of another. The typical example are the British dominions. This is setup in a variety of ways, but the upshot is that sometimes a flag is (seemingly) lost in the process.

British dominions & other possessions:

Nazi puppets:

Other cases:

Bonus coat of arms

Some are historical flags, except defaced with a coat of arms or similar (national emblem etc.). The result must be ahistorical or of unknown historicity to belong to this category.

moretrim commented 5 years ago

Newfoundland has the oddity that its commonwealth flag is set up the opposite way of other British dominions, and instead one finds a mystery flag at NEW.tga:

NEW

This can be "fixed", preserving the use of the dominion flag, meaning that an independent, monarchical Newfoundland would be using this flag. I'd rather try and figure out what it is before though.

Other British dominions in the same boat:

moretrim commented 5 years ago

The Peru-Bolivia has this non-specific flag (PBC.tga):

`PBC.tga`

Preliminary research suggests that it's an early version of the republic flag (PBC_republic.tga).

moretrim commented 3 years ago

I’m on holiday right now, so this is a reminder to myself to properly document BRZ.tga later.

moretrim commented 3 years ago

Need to follow-up on MLY.tga.