The Jack

Well! This requires some explaining. I designed a flag for a flag contest that looks exactly like the original flag. (It’s for Marissa Meyer, btw, author of the Lunar Chronicles: [link] This is, to the best of my abilities, the current United Kingdom / British flag. So, if the task was to design a flag for the futuristic United Kingdom, why did I remake the current one?

…Well… because after a lot of thinking, I believe that the UK flag wouldn’t change. Here’s why:
- The British / UK flag has been in use since 1801. Before that, the colors and the crosses dated back hundreds of years to sacred saints.
- Canada used to be a British colony. Current British colonies, along with many former colonies have the Union Jack in upper left corner.
- Putting the Union Jack into the upper left corner, even for Great Britain, would suggest that the future United Kingdom would be a colony to the past UK.
- With the amount of effort Canada put into getting its independence, Canada would want its flag to represent equality, not the sub-status a colony flag would symbolize, mostly because of the history behind that colonization flag.
- It’s a futuristic world
o There are 6 countries in this futuristic earth: The African Union, The Eastern Commonwealth, The United Kingdom, The American Republic, the European Federation, and Australia.
 There are two oddballs in there – two of those names already exist.
• The United Kingdom is a group of countries already
• Australia is not
o Flag changes when it is joined by or joins with other countries
• A group’s flag does not change when it gains a new member (Apple’s logo doesn’t change when they hire a new employee)
 Plus, going with the pattern, there should be at least one oddball flag that survived since before WWIV (which created the new country borderlines)
 Canada is larger than the entire current United Kingdom
 WWIV devastated the planet
 Most likely, after WWIV, the larger Canada had more salvageable land and resources left that the minute island nations like Great Britain.
 (I assumed, probably incorrectly, for ease) There should be an even number of countries. With an odd number like 5, a majority of 3 counties can conglomerate. With 6, there is a bit more insurance, since it takes longer to achieve a majority and war might be more easily avoided.
• If North and South America in their entirety combined, they and the Eastern Commonwealth would be almost almighty, while the UK without Canada is a pointless pebble in the sea.
o UK needs Canada to compete and maintain the proposed 6-country peace-and-equality.
o Canada accepts
 Becomes part of the UK.

Bottom line in my idea is that the United Kingdom already exists. They already have a flag, and their flag doesn’t have a design that changes with each add-on, like the USA’s states=stars factor. If there was a reason why the UK would change their flag… I missed it.

I know this idea is probably stupid and uncreative. But… but, I really support it. And, maybe, somebody’s already turned in this idea to the contest already. Still! I wanted to explain myself and my silly idea.

Also, I did make my own version of the Jack. Even the flat flag up there, I made. I made it to the exact specifications of all of the other Union Jacks out there, but I didn’t just copy it from Google.
Process: I traced a bitmap in Rhino, colored, texturized the 3-D flags (and rendered them). Then, I took a snapshot, which messed up the flat Jack’s pixels, so I edited the flat Jack pixels in Paint.

I thought about combining the Canadian and UK flags, like putting a leaf squat dead in the middle, but then I realized I’d have to add Ireland’s flag, and the others, and in the calamity of all the colors and pieces, this made so much more sense.

Sincerely,
Midget Maddilin

- 12:19 AM, West Coast