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My vote for best goes to Vietnam πŸ‡»πŸ‡³ with honarable mentions to Bhutan.

Worst are all the countries that just have three coloured stripes. I cant tell any of them apart

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[–] KimJongGoku@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Angola has the coolest flag and it's not even close

[–] theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mozambique's got a fucking AK on it

[–] KimJongGoku@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah well it's also got a book on it which means it's for nerd

[–] daisy@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

A flag for intellectual revolutionaries. It's a solid choice.

This and WPK are nice re-interpretations of the classic

[–] citrussy_capybara@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Oh shit I forgot Wales! Love that dragon

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Vietnam and USSR are my favorites. Very simple and iconic flags.

Worst ones are prolly the flags with Union Jack (Except for UK/Aus/NZ). Kinda lazy shit. Union Jack itself can be considered evil but not the worst thing aesthetically.

[–] daisy@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Worst ones are prolly the flags with Union Jack (Except for UK/Aus/NZ). Kinda lazy shit. Union Jack itself can be considered evil but not the worst thing aesthetically.

The story of how Canada avoided the "union jack in the corner" fate is actually really funny. The short version is that the minority-government prime minister of the time was about as anti-colonial as it was possible to get in mainstream 1960s Canadian politics and still be PM. He's the same guy who, as foreign minister in the 1950s, led worldwide diplomatic efforts against Britain in the Suez Canal crisis. He wanted to replace the old not-technically-official but official-ish British-as-can-be flag with something entirely domestic. He didn't want any European symbolism on it.

He and his progressive political allies basically tricked the pro-British conservatives on the flag selection committee into supporting a flag that he preferred, without any trace of the British symbolism that the conservatives demanded. But the conservatives didn't know he preferred it. They thought he wanted a different flag. They thought they were going to deadlock the selection committee by preventing a majority vote for any particular flag. The pro-British faction lost their shit when they found out that the progressives on the committee voted for the same new flag, making the committee decision unanimous.

The conservative opposition leader was one of those standard-issue North American anglophiles who never saw a British boot he didn't instinctively want to lick. He tried to filibuster the House of Commons to prevent a vote that would have made the new flag official, but some of his own party soon got sick of his shit and just wanted the whole debate out of the media once and for all. So influential opposition members rebelled against their own leader and forced an end to the filibuster.

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The country is trash (death to kkkanada ) but I think the maple leaf flag is pretty good. It's instantly recognisable from a distance, not too crowded, and just looks nice imo

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[–] SovietyWoomy@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Bhutan is the best because it has a dragon

Israel is the worst because it appropriated a religious symbol and transformed it into a symbol of hate.

[–] theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

But Wales also has a dragon thonk

And Malta also has a dragon it's just tiny

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

DEAR ISRAELIS..... YOU SAY YOUR COUNTRY IS IN DISTRESS,,, BUT I NEVER SEE YOUR FLAG FLOWN UPSIDE DOWN...... CURIOUS......!!!

[–] Othello@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Jamaica for not having red white or blue.

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

It's like a direct color inversion of the British flag

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago
[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nepal

Embrace non-rectangular thought!

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[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The best flag for symbolism, Angola πŸ‡¦πŸ‡΄

The best flag from a purely design perspective, Seychelles πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¨

[–] ElGosso@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

Any flag with an AK is a flag I like

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

best flags: belarus and kazakhstan flags for their ornaments. And nepal flag for it's unique shape

worst flags: all the ones with british flag in the corner look super ugly

honorable mention: turkmenistan, which literally has a carpet on it's flag

[–] jaeme@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

The ones with the british flag in the corner also must suck to draw by hand. You have to create two whole flags in one.

[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

DRPK it's iconic
Kyrgyzstan what if Vietnam but hairy star
Gabon yes it's a three stripe but the colour combo in this image at least appeals to me (repeated again w Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)

Worst, sorry Bangladesh the contrast hurts my eyes, makes it look like the greem circle is both recessed and floating

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

It's not my favourite but I have to give an honorable mention to Hong Kong despite them being US simps

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

USSR, probably the best flag design in history. Most of the SSR flags are nice too.

Shoutout to Cuba for somehow having a flag that suits a communist country really well even though it's the same flag they used before the revolution.

[–] star_wraith@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

South Africa and Norway. The old Zaire flag was one of my favorites until they got rid of it. The old GDR flag GDR is my personal GOAT and I felt that way long before I was a commie.

[–] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

St Pierre and Miquelon has a sailing ship on the flag. More flags should have sailing ships

Worst are all the anglo colonial flags. Fuck the union jack

[–] Timberknave@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Brunei, Turkmenistan, Mozambique, Angola in no particular order

Mayotte also going strong

Honourable mention to Nepal for not sticking to the rectangle

Northern Mariana islands is a bit too busy, same with Seychelles, otherwise really strong concept

Sri Lanka, Lebanon, Bhutan put interesting stuff in their flags, but idk, something is lacking still

Worst flags: Virgin Islands followed by anyone with just a color scheme arranged in a "neat" (strictly vertical/horizontal manner)

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

Africa is the strongest continent in this game.

Worst are all the countries that just have three coloured stripes. I cant tell any of them apart

Two stripes is worse. Indonesia's flag is so boring it can cure insomnia.

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The DPRK has the best communist flag, but Cuba just keeping their pre-revolution flag is baller as fuck.

[–] Aquilae@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

It was meant to be πŸ‡¨πŸ‡Ί

The flag of the Kingdom of Benin features the decapitation of a colonizer

[–] the_kid@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

big fan of the Hezbollah flag

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Worst currently existing country flag: Definitely the US. Way too many fucking stars and stripes. It's a much more convoluted version of the Texas state flag, which is an okay flag design.

Worst country flag overall: Apartheid South Africa. It's a boring tricolor with three crappy miniflags copypasted on the tricolor. Just look at this shit. Some of their government flags are just joke flags. Imagine thinking you should be taken serious with a flag like this lmao

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Flags within flags lol

[–] AbbysMuscles@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

I think Angola and Morocco for me

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

I said it then and I say it now, Angola's flag is in a league of it's own

[–] Dyno@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

I have a soft spot for Suriname's.
Anything that's too busy and difficult to parse at a distance is bad.

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I see a lot of hate for generic three stripe designs, but I feel like my people needs some hate to - the Danish and Swedish "two colors and a cross" designs suck ass.

Angola, East Timor, Papua New Guinea and Mozambique. Guess I have a thing for red, yellow and black designs

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Finnish flag is probably the world's most boring, but I'll take it over the Swedish one because blue and yellow is such an ugly combo.

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[–] sawne128@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

The Lao flag really hits the spot.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Bolivia and their african brethren with red-yellow-green flags. Also hong-kong and kirgyzstan

[–] Cherufe@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Lebanon best flag with their Christmas tree πŸ‡±πŸ‡§

[–] Babs@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

I prefer the classic flag of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.

Green🟩

I love how people keep saying USSR but it's not on the board anymore, they're not wrong though.

Angola and Mozambique go the hardest. But I also love the solidarity between the Cuban and Puerto Rican flags, it's beautiful and very sweet. Free Puerto Rico!

They're terribly reactionary and I don't support them at all but I always think Saudi Arabia's flag is pretty cool. Like Wahabi pirates.

Honorable mentions to Albania, Uruguay, Cyprus, and Papau New Guinea.

Worst flags are Mayotte, Virgin Islands, Israel, and US.

But I can't decide if I love or hate the kitch going on with British Indian Ocean Territory.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Any flag with the UK flag in the corner is atrocious just from a design standpoint. How much of a loser do you have to be to just base your entire existence off another country? Even the flags of solidarity (Arab and African colors, hammer and sickle) have varying patterns, layout, additional symbols, etc. I would be less offended if they simply made the UK flag the entire flag, and then added variations to it.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I like the composition of the DPRK flag, along with Mauritania's.

Actually, I really like the RoK flag too even though I dislike what it has come to represent under the colonial puppet state.

Angola's is also pretty cool

The flower on HK's is pretty

Angola πŸ‡¦πŸ‡΄

Mozambique πŸ‡²πŸ‡Ώ

Really a lot of African countries that had anti-colonial movements.

[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

what is this fucking angloid brained Graph ? With Palestine beeing "Gaza Strip" but they acknoledge fucking "Norfolk island ? ? ? ? , You get the UK Flag , its a good flag , you dont get some fucking 120 other Nations because they are Technicly "subject of the Crown" or and you wanna feel exeptional horsepoo-theory

Best Flag is Alabanias , its comes with a Cool handgesture ..

EDIT: okay i am generally down on the Genocide , and i should have just insulted the great nation of Kingston or what ever the fuckj they are (recognised extra territorial wtf ) it looks its a really insidefull place , they have the hole fucking issue in one place, including Golf

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As haram as these selections are:

  • Wales: They have a dragon on their flag, that's pretty cool.

  • Canada: The leaf should in theory invoke some sense of respect for nature (even though Canada emits more GHG per capita than the Great Satan. Although I will give Quebec and the Maritime provinces some props for not being the reason for the high per capita emissions)

Now for some imperial-periphery ones.

  • Cuba: What the US flag should have been. Not too busy, not too minimalist

  • China (totally not biased): Nice allude to both the soviet union and also the red and yellow are essentially the chinese equivalent of Purple for Roman emperors.

  • Bhutan: They also do the objectively correct thing and put a dragon on their flag

  • Ghana: Anti-colonial vibes with the flag, and also the grandmother of Ian-Jones Quartley designed it so I think that's pretty cool (O.K KO deserved better fuck you HBO max)

  • Mexico: anti-italian-action but with an eagle. Eagles are cool.

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