Stanistan/United Central Asia
Prompt: Design a flag for Stanistan/United Central Asia
BUT FIRST
Choosing August 2024’s contest - Poll here!.
August 2024’s contest will be about flags for the subnational regions of a country - but which one? The mods have selected twelve possible cases, and we want you to pick the best one. Rate each option from 0-5 (0 being “no interest at all” and 5 being “please make this the contest!”) and we will select the winner! Vote here - by clicking on this link to go to the poll
Now back to this month’s event.
Hello and welcome to the r/vexillology monthly flag design contest
This July, we’re asking you to design a flag for the hypothetical nation often referred to as Stanistan.
Specifically, a country uniting the seven countries in central/southern Asia whose English name uses the suffix “stan”.
These being
This idea has been discussed often on the internet in articles and youtube videos a plenty. Here are two samples.
- “What If Every Country Ending in "Stan" United?” - by RealLifeLore
- “If all the stan countries united, how would their relations be with other countries?” - quora.com
In this contest, we want you to make a flag for where this hypothetical union has become a nation state alongside others.
A couple of rules:
You can create some LIMITED lore for how this country came about/conflicts & difficulties it faces etc which are represented in the flag. HOWEVER there should be no alien space bats etc AND the flag should be contemporaneous - IE not representing the hypothetical country outside the modern day. This flag should not represent a super ancient/super futuristic/super alt-history version of the region.
The lore rule means you CAN choose what the country’s name is - however if you do this you MUST make the name clear in the flag’s name/description etc section.
This month we are introducing a hard limit to the name/description length - flag names cannot be longer than 80 characters - flag descriptions cannot be longer than 1,200 characters (including spaces).
Please read the contest rules in full before submitting. These are the rules that apply to every contest, every month, so they are quite important.
PLEASE Remember the basics - a maximum of ONLY two submissions per entrant - do NOT show the design ANYWHERE on the subreddit before the contest is over.
Because this has been asked several times, let’s be clear - you will see all approved entries between 19-27th of July - this is when you can vote on them.
