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Flag of Insulamia in the style of...

Note 4/8/2024: I have replaced all images with Dropbox-hosted ones, so hopefully they will appear now :)

Note 19/1/2023: Google Drive has been acting a little goofy recently, and I can't be bothered to transfer all these files to a hosting site that still allows one to embed SVGs in BBCode. If you want to see a flag, click here and dig through the raw code to find the link to the flag. This link will download a copy to your computer when pasted in a browser.


The flag of Insulamia, for reference.
Crie, cams.

Have you ever wondered what Insulamia's flag would look like in the style of your nation's? No? Well, uh, I'm gonna show you anyways; at least, for 46 lucky nations.

This list, sorted somewhat-alphabetically, consists of mostly my NS friends and old friends, Forum 7 folks, and other nations I admire. If you haven't made the list, I'm really sorry! I had to stop somewhere and I can only remember so many nations; recently, I haven't been as active as I used to so I may have just forgor 💀. Maybe next time if I ever do this again. But some like Foehn Paramilitary Regions and The Kingdom of the Three Isles will probably not be featured in any case, because I was stuck on how to Insulamify their flags (sorry for the ping but no flag, folks; and a special apology to Foehn Paramilitary Regions who was also excluded from Yakko's Forum 7). And some of y'all don't even have proper flags (looking at you, Classroom 3-b, but hey, at least Baizou got some representation) or keep switching them too fast.

The images are all in SVG (vector) format, so they may take a while to load; and the sheer number of them (52) may be a little tough for some of you folks' devices to handle. But if y'all want to use these for anything, feel free to do so! I'd appreciate credit but it's not necessary.

Now, there are some recurring symbols in these designs that I'd like to explain before we start:

  • Colours: The national colours of Insulamia are navy blue and gold. They don't inherently represent anything, but they can be said to mean the night sky or the sea; and the stars or the gold; respectively. Violet may be a tertiary colour, representing the national flower. Red may also be used to represent British heritage. Any other colours used in these flags are for aesthetic purposes or are to match with the original flag. I also try to follow the Linkrule of tincture when designing these.

  • Star: The four-pointed star or the Star of the North, usually depicted in gold, is a national symbol of Insulamia. It was picked kind of arbitrarily but could be said to represent the four compass directions (giving a maritime exploration theme) or the four provinces, since Nuran was added in 1895.

  • Violet: The Aurian violet (Viola auriana) is the national flower of Insulamia.

  • Reindeer: The reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) is the national animal of Insulamia.

  • Insulamian Crown: This represents authority and the governmental system of Insulamia. It is frequently used in government logos and the such. The crown is a mix of the LinkImperial Crown of Britain and the Crown of Liberty of Auria. Both of these are said to derive from the top bits of their respective stick-like symbols.

  • Mace and torch: The mace represents British authority and monarchy, whilst the torch represents Aurian liberty. From the tops of these symbols it is said that the Insulamian crown was synthesised.

  • Coat of arms: The Linkcoat of arms of Insulamia features a quartered shield. Clockwise from the top, each quarter represents Henria, Auria, Nuran, and Septentria respectively - the four provinces of Insulamia.

  • Cabotia: Cabotia is the national personification of Insulamia. She is often depicted wearing the Insulamian crown and holding a Linkcornucopia with gold coins (representing the early gold trade) and an olive branch (representing the peace after the Aurian Revolutionary War).

  • Big Dipper/Plough: LinkThe Plough or The Big Dipper is a famous star constellation of the Northern Hemisphere. Insulamia lies Linkpretty far north, so you can understand why this is sometimes used as an Insulamian symbol. The constellation also features in Septentria's quarter of the coat of arms as a literal plough, next to a star representing the LinkPole Star.

Welp, can't wait to retcon some random bit of Insulamian lore such that these designs no longer make sense, but in the meantime, enjoy!

Ageros

Perhaps the easiest flag to make here because I already had the original file and only had to change a star and a colour. Insulamia also has those kinds of trees, so I kept that unchanged.

Alinek

Perhaps the flag that most resembles the original Insulamian flag. Alternatively the Flag of Insulamia if I pissed on the edges.

The aquaria

I discovered that the cross on your flag is slightly thinner than that of the Saar Protectorate (at least on Wikipedia). Why???!

-Astoria-


Versions with and without a shield. In my opinion, the one with the shield looks wayyy cooler.

Baizou

le reindeer has arrived, eyeless as l'elephant

Black raven movement

I eventually found Linkthe source of the little inner pattern thingy. I then accidentally stumbled across the source of the wreath of wheat (1948 Romanian emblem?!) whilst looking for the source of Cerespasia's wreath, but it was so distorted and modified that I gave up trying to recreate it in SVG and just used an Aurian violet wreath instead.

Buhers mk ii

I couldn't find the flag of Ye Olde Buhers so this is based on a very vague recollection. Here's a recreation of what that recollection looks like:

Cataleenia


The Big Dipper in two orientations, with the Insulamian crown. I found the original flag here and based it off that.

Cerespasia

The arms of Linkcommunist Hungary, Linkthe Colombian town of Chalán, and LinkPortugal fit surprisingly well with each other. The emblem goes hard af. Also, is there a lore reason why the side-flags on your emblem have the flag upside-down?

Chaolan

The Star of the North on some coloured stripes. Simple as.

Cierrida

The hammer, sickle, and rifle was replaced with a mace & torch (representing the British and the Aurians) and an olive branch representing peace between them.

Continental Free States

This was perhaps the largest file of the lot, due to the fully-detailed coat of arms. And it is also due to the size of the arms that I didn't make another one for Doechland.

Drongonia

le big dipper has arrived

East Plate

Four provinces, four stripes. The British assert their full control of the island after kicking out the Spanish French.

Equai

What really bothered me when making this was that the small triangle is has some slightly different angles to the bigger triangle. But when I tried 'fixing' it, it looked too different to the original so I kept it.

Estado americano de espana

No idea what the left blue part symbolises, so I went a completely different direction. I made the "tricolour" part the flag of Auria and the "blue" part the Union Jack, kind of similarly representing the original independent state and the colonial power respectively.

Also I have no idea what the aspect ratio of the flag was supposed to be so I made it 1:1.91176473. There was some calculation behind that but I've forgotten it now (💀)

Feyrisshire

The hammer & wheat has been replaced with the mace & torch; while this doesn't keep the exact symbolism, it still represents two groups of people (I assume the wheat is agricultural workers and the hammer is industrial workers?) and looks cool. Wings (?) have been replaced with reindeer antlers.

Free ravensburg

Five five-pointed stars implies four four-pointed stars.

Frisemark



How tf did you find the Linkbanner of arms of Westmeerbeek??? Google reverse image search yielded nothing, and even after I found the city name, Google still provided no flags. I was almost sure it was an OC design until I tried motherfuсkin' Bing image search, which somehow found a match. Bruh.

Anyways, I've made one version with St Michael and two more with Cabotia. I switched the colours for no particular reason lol. I didn't really know what the significance of 9 stripes was, so I kept it the same.

Gandoor

Four points and four stars for four provinces.

Hanoverian Great Britain

You may have gotten it somewhere else but I got a matching circle thingy from the Linkflag of the Lieutenant Governor of Jersey. The red cross represents Henria, the yellow cross plus the violet background represents Auria, the blue saltire fimbriated white represents Septentria, and the rest of the background's blue represents Nuran.

Hiyoko

Perhaps the second-most effortful flag here. Lady Cabotia rests in the centre of frame; the Star is behind her, and the edges have some kind of Inuit textile pattern.

Karazicu

tank >:((( reindeer :DDD

Kuroluce

Perhaps the flag I spent the most effort on. I traced over the OG flag but made some modifications. Hilda is now Britannia, representing, well, Britain; and Lissy is now Liberty, representing Aurian revolutionary ideals. They're (Britannia and Liberty, not Hilda and Lissy :p) also featured on the Linkcoat of arms of Insulamia.

Red lake circle

This is here alphabetically because I treat it as Laguzrauth + reindeer :)

Kingdom of lechia

And this is here alphabetically because I treat it as Lechia. I'm pretty sure "Glory to Lechia" is what is meant by the writing on the flag? Also, before any French nerds 'correct' me - no, we don't put articles before countries' names in Insulamian French (the best French).

Meadowfields

le crown has arrived

Nacrad

Tried to keep the violations of the Linkrule of tincture with this one :p

New temecula

Couldn't find the olive (?) wreath because there are just so many like them online, so I went with the ol' ring of violets.

Nomayuki

just the colours :)

Norse Inuit Union

I've kept the Inuksuk because Insulamia also has Inuit folk. I've replaced the ravens with flowers that also represent Europeans - clockwise from the top left: French lily, English rose, Scottish thistle, Irish shamrock (these assets were conveniently stolen from the Linkflag of Montréal).

Nova universo

I've kept the number of stars the same (7) because I couldn't find anything about your flag's symbolism in your factbooks so I based it off Tajikistan's emblem, which states that the number of stars is based on a divine/perfect number. Also don't know what the three circles below the crown were supposed to represent, so I just removed them lmao

New San Andreas Republic


Would you like that reindeer radioactively mutated or not, sire? Both? Splendid.
I used some variation of Bahnschrift for the font here; hopefully that's what you used too?

Perikuresu

I forgor that your IC name was Apanalua and I can't be bothered to put this back to the start of the list. Anyways, enjoy your Viola auriana!

Rivogna

Not sure what 13 stars are supposed to represent, but I put 4 to represent the 4 provinces of Insulamia. Also couldn't find the specific branches that you used so I put a wreath of Aurian violets.

Selanese Empire

boring ahh flag bruh 💀💀💀 i should have put some subway surfers and family guy clips to make it more interesting

Sulivannia

God bless ya Suli, you've made my job a whole lot easier by having your flag in SVG form.

I've gone for a slightly adjusted colour symbolism here: the red represents the Brits, the violet/blue represents the Aurians and natives/the French, and the white represents peace between them.

Surrealist patagonia

Are you even active anymore? Anyways, I couldn't find the arrows so I made my own (which look a whole lot less surreal). I have no idea why the Big Dipper is on the flag considering Patagonia's south of the Equator, but I flipped that around and put a Southern Cross instead, since Insulamia's in the Northern Hemisphere.

Teffland

boat size: insulamia 1-0 teffland

Terran american republic

Two founding provinces = two stripes. Red for Britain/Henria, gold for Auria. The canton features a reindeer head (which I thought fit better than a full reindeer), and four stars, because I thought just two would look a little too goofy.

Valentine Z

Val, it's great that your flag is in SVG format, but it has some really wacky code that I had to tidy up a bit.

Washington-Columbia

Basically the same flag. We got trees and stuff too.

Westralia

Reindeer + dipper combination goes hard af (and so too does the black swan + Southern Cross)

The Commonwealth of Insulamia

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