A discussion of flags, with Mr. Jangurupureri

Greetings.

I really wish I knew anything about video design, cause I think this may have been a good video idea, but I'm not sure. Also, your eyesight must be incredible to see this, or you're just zooming into the text.

(NON-RP in Orbis.)

Welcome to my nonexistent office.

Today, I'll be discussing to you about why, how, and what the heck these patriotic pieces of cloth do, mean, and their importance to society.

Now, when you think of a flag, you probably either think of your home country's flag, or you think of the flag of the most influential nation of the 21st century thus far, the United States of America; however, when you think of what a flag is supposed to represent, what do you think? Do you think of the flag principles, which are more like recommendations for flag design? Do you think of the definition of what a flag is supposed to do? 

Today, I'll be talking about the Janguresian Flag Conflict, a hidden battle that challenges these very definitions of a flag.

UNO: The long, symbol-dense identity.

Now, as you may recall, what do you think when you think a Janguresian flag? Do you think that's it's some boring, simple rectangle flag? Of course not, unless you are thinking of the diplomatic flag, which is used for foreign relations, so we don't have to fly the long banner every single time. What you may not know is that despite the flag being severely symbol-dense, and long, that there is great reason for this, and why the Janguresian council is reconsidering it's chosen flag. In the Fourth of July, the person whose created the concept for Jangurupureri as a whole pondered to the question of whether or not a flag change is needed. The reason behind this is because the Janguresian identity isn't the same without the flag. The flag of the nation is unique in the sense that it represents the political and ethnic people of the nation well. It represents while the founding politicial parties, nor their people, while they may not agree with everything, they do agree with the idea of moving forward together. The 3 banners that made up the first original Janguresian banner all symbolize this. While the banners may not move the same way, nor are they connected, they always point in the same direction to represent the unity of the banners, representing Jangurupureri.

Jangurupureri isn't what it is just because of the ethnicity, but what it stands for. It represents how although we may not be the same, and we may not even like each other, we'll still continue forward together, and we shall forever face forward while going our own ways. It's very symbolic and artistic in the sense that it's not necessarily just one flag. While this banner combination is considered one flag, it isn't. They aren't connected at all, yet they all symbolize the same thing when put together. When put separately, they represent themselves as what they are. In my opinion, this is why the flag, while quite unappealing to the eye upclose, is such a great flag for the Janguresian identity. It represents exactly what Janguresian society is. A society where although it's people often follow different paths, they all are united under the idea of moving forward, and never giving up.

With that on mind, let's move to...

DOS: The Problem.

The problem with the transitional flag isn't because it doesn't work to represent something, cause it wouldn't really be in place if it didn't function. What is the problem, and what is causing this flag war is when you look at the flag. Think about what I've said earlier, and now, I want you to ask yourself this single question: Do you think this represents Jangurupureri?

If you said "NO", this is exactly the same thing Wu Sassikastomo, leader of the UMRJ, also told himself as well. Think about this flag for a second, and notice how while it's colors clearly represent the Janguresian populous, nothing in the flag represents Janguresian society, nor the Janguresian dream all that well, now does it? Wu even said this to one of his friends: "This flag may seem like it's a good flag to represent the nation, but it feels more like it represents it's people better than it does the general society. It's a task that successfully failed.It does it's job to represent, but it represents the nation terribly."

It's a flag that does it's job, but it's almost like that one homework assignment you had to do, but you have to turn it in like, five seconds. You turn it in, but it's absolutely terrible, but you're glad it's done anyway, because it's done it's job. Not to be a good homework assignment, but just represent that you did something. That's exactly what this flag feels to Wu. A sloppy piece of work that somebody turned in. He doesn't believe that such a piece of sloppy work should be used to represent the nation; however, he's allowing this work to be used to represent it's people, as it was made more as an attempt to make a more ethnicially representative flag, rather than a politically representative flag, but the society is already built on politics, there's no changing that, and I don't even think that there's anyone in Jangurupureri who even thinks of the idea of anarchy, cause honestly, anarchy is basically being a 3 year old. You expect to be able to do whatever the heck you want, you don't expect to have any consequences for your actions, and you make a huge mess that somebody else has to clean up later on.

TRES: Wu's Resolve, and the classic knockoff.

Wu decided to make his own flag for the newly adapted Janguresian Commonwealth, which isn't even here yet. Heck, Jangurupureri as a nation is already way too young to come up with a new set of government, but if there's anything you have to remember about our society, it's that change is our specialty, mostly to survive the severely mountainous terrain. We kind of have to adjust, otherwise we aren't able to thrive like we do now. Sure, we have our own problems, but we ulimately are attempting to develop that resolve to get things done and to move forward when things start to get worrying. As such, Wu's not giving up on creating what he thinks is the best flag to represent all the qualities of Janguresian society, put to detail. This is the result. He figured, "Let's make the best out of both worlds." He figured that a society can't be a society without it's people, so he added the "Universal ethnic colors," and combined them with the current Janguresian flag, made that whole sucker longer, and it's actually really good, in my opinion. Sure, it is practically just sloppy homework, but it's sloppy homework that you can tell at least had some thought put into it. The banners are now there, but still separated to represent unity through individual representation, and united under the many peoples of the nation. It also represents how each party still have their own differences, but so do the ones who are under the rules of said parties. It represents both the people and the political entity of Jangurupureri well, and for that reason, the council is deciding to make this the new transitional government flag. There has been some critisms with this, but people do admit that this flag does better represent Janguresian society than the other flag.

CUARTO: The Resolve, and User Submittion.

I think that this story is honestly very symbolic, but of course, I'm the entity that's supposed to be the humanoid representation of Jangurupureri; however, this also allows me to tell you what I believe good flag design is. Good flag design isn't about the complexity of the flag design. It doesn't even have to be how original the flag is, nor how appealing it has to look, but rather what I believe a flag's purpose is, and what determines a good flag, is how well it represents the society and the people who live under the banner. If it doesn't represent the society nor it's people, then there isn't a reason why people should have the flag around. Think about it. People in the United States don't like their flag just because of how appealing it looks, nor the complexity, but because as a society, it really does represent American society. It's the same reason as to why places like British Columbia don't change their flag. It's not the complexity of the flag nor how appealing it looks, rather it's how well it's able to represent a society. If it doesn't represent the society under it well, then why have the flag around?

Also, for anyone wondering if this is a rant post, it's more like a personal rant post, so yes, it is a rant post, but it's an internal one, rather than a rant post against any other particular nation or person.

In case you want to know the point of the post, there's two things that this post wishes to accomplish. First off, I made this post to express my internal thoughts about the situation, and secondly, I hope that this post can be used to help you about flag design, and how whatever flag you choose should feel like it represents your nation, wheter it be it's history, it's landscape, whatever you want, so long as you feel like it represents your nation.

Thank you for listening to my internal thoughts, and I hope your July Ze Fourth went well.

This has been A Discussion of Flags with Mr. Jangurupureri, and yes, he used a stock image, so what?

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