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Here's a place to post and talk about the conflags of your concountries in your conworlds.

I recently made a bunch of flags, some of them I'm not too sure about, but here they are for your appraisal:

THE ZARCOS EMPIRE:
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This flag prominently features the Phoenix Insignia, the icon of the Phoenix King, a prominent figure in Zarcosian culture. Even though the Phoenix Clergy was purged by the Hatiianzo Dynasty, they kept the iconography as associated with the Zarcosian crown, to assert their legitimacy as the successors to the original Zariko Dynasty. The gray cross behind the Phoenix Insignia represents crossed blades. This features only in the imperial flag - the flag of the Kingdom of Zarcos has only the Insignia and the green background, the latter of which represents the importance of nature in Zarcosian culture.

THE KINGDOM OF PROPHA:
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The Imperial Eagle, the Laurel Crown, and the Monogram of Propha, all golden and backed by tyrian purple. This is the state that descended from the Prophan Empire. It's the state that crumbled in an attempt to re-Imperialize and gave way to...

THE PROPHAN REPUBLIC:
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Gold and tyrian were avoided, due to the Imperial connotations, so white and blue, a colour combination found all across propha, was used. The Eagle and Laurel were discarded. The Monogram is retained, and the meander, an important symbol in Prophan culture, was added.

THE KINGDOM OF TICONDERA:
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The symbol here is a stylized version of the Ticonderan crown, a famous relic from Ticondera's Jamic antiquity.

THE DUCHY OF ANSHACRAS:
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The writing here is stylized Akkadian cuneiform. If I have it right, it means 'magic'. Above is the Ticonderan crown, identifying Anshacras as one of the states left in the wake of the Ticonderan Civil War, and vying for control of it.

THE DUCHY OF NALDUS:
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This flag simply features the Mu-Delta monogram of House Mandos, which rules Naldus. Above is the Ticonderan crown, identifying Naldus as one of the states left in the wake of the Ticonderan Civil War, and vying for control of it.

THE TICONDERAN UNION:
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This only happens far in the future. The three colours represent the 'three-headed culture' of the Ticondera of its time - sky blue for Sublimism, orange for the Salenzian Tradition and historical Ticondera, and black for Onyxianism.

THE KINGDOM OF IGION:
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The blue design is the monogram of Igion, spelling it out in the Prophan alphabet: ΙΓΙΟΝ. It is also a stylized representation of The Hand, the magistracy in which the royal capital, Fluwlidiwli - represented by the tyrian circle - is situated. The Tiburis flows in from the north, and the Anala, Albu, Kuru, and Pranata flow out from the south, in that order, from west to east.

I'm not entirely sure if the colours here work.

THE THEOCRACY OF SHORRAG:
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This flag features the havalt, the eight-pointed star that represents the eight gods of Zhal's Family, the Eight Grand Arts associated with those gods, and the eight-element Shorragite cosmology.