League of Nations (1983: Doomsday)

=The League of Nations=



Flag description
The provisional flag of the League of Nations is a try to unify elements of the previous flags of both the United Nations and the 1920's LoN as well as to integrate appropriate new elements.

In 2007, the WRCB Heraldic Office -quickly nicknamed "the Flag Heros" by the ANZC- press deeply questioning the sense and use of such an institution- was founded after an intense debate in the ANZC Parliament. A comittee including represantatives from all acknowledged sovereign countries, held a first meeting in December 2007 on this issue in the royal residence Nuku'Alofa Tonga on invitation of King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV.

After a few heated debates they found a compromise for a first draw:

The background colour is chosen as to be a deep ocean blue rather than the brighter UN blue. This was decided due to the now even increased importance of earth's ocean as most states are island-bound or have long coastlines.

The Southern Hemisphere Countries, especially ANZC and SAC, insisted on the swift of worldwide political to the South to be represented in the flag though resistance from Canada, Portugal and Pais del Oro. So it was decided to take a 5-ended star formation pointing southward, consisting of 23 yellow stars -the prospective number of founding members of the League of Nations- with an increased density in the lower half of the star (as only 7 member are located north of the equator). The number of stars is to be increased as more states are admitted to the League of Nations.

As the central element a slightly converted United Nations Symbol was introduced. It comprised the traditional olive branches symbolizing peace. The azimuthal equidistant projection world map was kept as well, just rotated a bit. The circle with a single cross is derived from the traditional symbol for earth.

Instead of using any religious symbols -as demanded by the mainly catholic SAC- the comittee decided the 4 principal languages to be integrated. So the Organzition's name was inserted in English (top), French (lower left), Portuguese (Lower Right) and Spanish (Lower central).