Flags of the Union of Piedmont
A fascination and enthusiasm for vexillology is one of the many cultural oddities that the Union of Piedmont has carried over from Mount Henadas from their colonial era. As a result, there have been a plethora of flags created and used for various causes and identities throughout its history, each with a meaning an use unique to their time in Piedmonti history. Despite, or perhaps because of, this vibrant flag creating community, the Union lacked any codified standard for its national or provincial flags until 10 October 2022, when the Vexillogical Standards Act was signed into law by Consul Presley Bartlett. The bill was promoted as a means to standardize the symbols utilized by the union and provincial governments, as part of a larger effort of utilize historic and patriotic imagery to promote national unity in the aftermath of the Piedmonti Civil War.
Flag of the Union of Piedmont
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2005–2012
The official standard of the Kingdom of Japoninca, designed by King Austin himself. This flag reportedly replaced an even older flag used by AP City, though knowledge of its design has been lost. Often called the Slants & Shield , the flag survived the abdication of King Austin, and was used until the Kingdom became a dominion of Mount Henadas. |
A green, white, and blue diagonal tricolor; with the coat of arms of Japoninca as the central charge. | King Austin |
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2012–2013
The flag of the Harris-York Commonwealth, a micronation founded by the Loyst family, though its designer is unknown. It was utilized to symbolize the short-lived power until it became a dominion of Mount Henadas. |
A white canton charged with the emblem of the Harris-York Commonwealth on a sky-blue field. | Unknown |
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2012–2017
2013 - 2017 These flags were used throughout the colonial period. Derivitive of British colonial standards, they were designed as part of a matching set, sharing a layout with the other various Henatan Dominions of the time. |
The flag of Mount Henadas as a canton on a blue field with the coat of arms of japoninca / emblem of Harris-York charged toward the fly. | Henatan Office for Colonial Relations |
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2017–2022
As tensions rose in the eastern colonies following the Bromley Border War in 2017, a powerful political movement arose calling for independence from Mount Henadas. The many separatist groups that organized and protested across Fort Mill adopted green, white, and blue as their colors. The colors harkened back to the standard of Japoninca, and stood in stark contrast to the red and orange of Mount Henadas. The most notable flag that appeared at separatist protests was the simple green white and blue tricolor of the Eastern Rule Alliance, a large pro-independence organization. It was originally used to identify said organization, however it became a widespread symbol of eastern resistance. When the Conference for the Status of Eastern Henatan Holdings declared the ascension and independence of the colonies and founded the Union of Piedmont, it also adopted an orange torch as its symbol, and this torch would begin to appear in the middle of the tricolors flown by the Union. Despite the ubiquity of the tricolor, standards for its use, design, or even status as the national flag were not yet codified. This resulted in several variations and interpretations of the flag to arise, and a debate would erupt about the order the colors should be arranged. In the Union's early years, it was commonly accepted that the flag went green, white, then blue; however in 2019 the Union Government would begin using a mirrored image of the flag on official documentation, causing confusion and discontinuity. All of this would be settled with the passage of the Vexillogical Standards Act in October 2022, which standardized the usage of flags in the Union Government and the various provinces. |
A green, white, and blue tricolor, with an orange torch charge in the center. | Various |
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2022 - present
The Vexillogical Standards Act, in addition to several other things, produced a new standard design for the national flag of the Union of Piedmont. This was a part of a greater effort to promote patriotic imagery after the civil war. The most notable change made to the flag was the addition of the orange diamond in the center, a symbol that had become popularly associated with the Union since the original flag originated. |
A green, white, and blue tricolor, with an orange diamond and torch charge in the center. | Presley Bartlett |
Provincial Flags
| Flag | Origin & Use | Description | Designer |
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2017 - present
When the Dominion of Japoninca became one of three founding provinces of the Union of Piedmont, The Slants & Shield returned to popular use to represent the Province. The Provincial assembly would vote unanimously to submit this flag as their official Provincial standard after the passage of the Vexillogical Standards act in 2022. |
A green, white, and blue diagonal tricolor; with the coat of arms of Japoninca as the central charge. | King Austin |
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2017 - present
Similarly to Japoninca, the Dominion of Harris-York would revive their former flag from independence to represent their province when the Union was formed. However, during the lead up to the civil war, Provincialist rebels would begin flying a purple variant of the flag (the color of the Federal Provincialist Party), and sought to actively replace any blue flags seen flying in Harris-York. Flags were torn from poles, stomped on, burned, and desiccated in a wide variety of manners during the protests that preceded the outbreak of the war. As a result of the flag became a symbol of reunification during the war, and would be made the official provincial flag in shortly after the province was readmitted into the Union in 2022. |
A white canton charged with the emblem of the Harris-York Commonwealth on a sky-blue field. | Unknown |
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2019 - present
Homeland was one of the three founding provinces of the Union of Piedmont, but unlike the others, it did not have a long history to look back on for symbolism. Homeland wouldn't have any kind of flag until 2019, but the use of the three-star symbol did emerge in that time, occasionally appearing in artwork regarding the province. The stars are meant to represent the province's position as one of the Union's three founders. The current design for the flag originates at the Somerton Constitutional Convention in 2019, where the second constitution of the Union was written and adopted. Homeland's delegate to the Convention, Senator Corey Weed, was infamously quiet and non-contributing during the convention, doing little more than simply voting the way of the majority on whatever proposal landed in-front of him. On the third day, Weed doodled the design you see to the left in the margins of his notes for the day. A scan of those notes was leaked and published, leading to the popular joke: "Senator Weed got a lot done at the Somerton Convention! Looks he designed our province's flag there and it only took him three days!" Though the flag caught on as a joke, it would eventually come to unironically represent the province, and the Provincial Assembly would submit the flag to be made official in 2022. |
A dark-green and blue bicolor, with an orange stripe through the middle, and an orange circle emblazed at the center. On the orange circle there are three 4-pointed stars. | Corey Weed |
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2020 - present
The Province of Solaria was, and is, dominated by the Sol-Newton family, and thus their symbols and heraldry has always represented the region. The current designed entered use in 2020, when it was created by the late community leader Firepaw Sol; and it was officially adopted in 2022 in his memory. The design contains the two symbols of the Sol clan, the red sun, and the blue dragon. |
A golden field charged with the head of a blue dragon at its center, between the horns of the dragon it holds a red sun. | Firepaw Sol |
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2018 - 2022
2022 - present When New Greensboro was admitted into the Union, the populace would largely begin using the Guilford Courthouse Flag, a popular historical standard from the American Revolution. The flag became popular because the battle of Guilford Courthouse was fought near what is today Greensboro, North Carolina - the province's namesake. When the Union Government announced that each province was to submit a flag design to be officially adopted as part of the Vexilogical Standards Act of 2022, it sparked a hot debate in New Greensboro. One faction arose advocating the continued use of the Guilford Courthouse flag, another sought to redesign it to make their flag more unique, and some even advocated ditching the design all together and coming up with something totally original. Eventually the redesign crowd won out - being the stand-out compromise option - and the Provincial Assembly would submit the current design one day before the deadline, being the last province to do so. |
A flag in two fields: the hoist being white with five 8-pointed blue stars, and the flyconsisting of five blue and red alternating horizontal stripes. | The Communal Committee for the Design of the Provincial Flag |
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2020 - present
The flag of the Province of Riverview originates as the background of a campaign poster for the province's founder and first Senator, Kristalin Yerty. The story goes: after the Realand Revolt, and the creation of Municipalities, the first Mayor of New Albertville - Teddy Lyerty - wanted a flag to fly next to the Union's outside city hall. He commissioned a staffer named Ali Naziim to design a flag for the province by the end of the day. However, Naziim was stumped because Riverview had only been founded a year before, and didn't have any particular symbols that set it apart from the rest of the Union. No other symbols, that is, other than the Province's near-universally beloved founder Kristalin Yerty, whose campaign signs he had been seeing around the city for months. Naziim simply adapted the background of those signs into a flag, and handed his assignment off to the Mayor. Within a couple days the flag was waving outside New Albertville City Hall, and has been recognized as the Province's flag ever since. |
A blue field with a white crescent moon in the upper-hoist, one white and one green waves stretch horizontally across the lower portion. | Ali Naziim |
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2022 - present
Deciding on a flag was never a high priority for the tiny Province of Kingston, so when the Union requested they submit a design, it was a pretty open and shut issue. The Provincial Assembly voted unanimously to adopt the posthumously-awarded personal standard of the late Senator Frank King. King had been a major founding figure for the Province, with his family lending the Province its name, and serving as the Province's first Senator. His passing in 2021 of colon cancer was a tragic blow for Kingston and the Union as a whole, thus his personal flag was chosen to represent the province. |
A crimson field charged with the tip of a golden spear in the center, and a large golden 'K' towards the hoist. | Ryder Causey |
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2020 - present
The Big X, as the flag is called, has its origin before Elijah was admitted as a province. Elijah, alongside Flint Hill and the former province of Myers, was brought into the Union as one of its first Regions in 2019; areas of the Union in the process of becoming Provinces. The people of Elijah would begin calling for provinceship almost immediately, and when Vandora was allowed to skip becoming region and was admitted directly as a province, these voices turned into demonstrations. It was at these demonstrations that flags depicting a large roman numeral ten began to pop-up. The numeral was meant to represent the call to admit Myers, Flint Hill, and Elijah into the Union as full-blown provinces; specifically in that order, which would make Elijah the tenth province. Though Elijah would gain provincial status in 2020, it would not pan-out as the Elijans had wished, as they were admitted as the ninth province of the Union of Piedmont. Despite this, the Big X remained popular in the province, and would be officially adopted in 2022. |
A blue, white, and red horizontal tricolor, charged with an orange roman numeral ten at its center. | Unknown |
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2022 - present
What would become the Province of Altura was once the Principality of Fair Oaks, a persistent adversary of the Kingdom of Japoninca and the Henatan Dominion that succeeded it. The two powers would clash several times throughout the early 2010s over control of the Blankmanship River. By the time of the founding of the Union of Piedmont, hostilities had died down, as Fair Oaks became preoccupied with matters to its east. In 2017, the same year as the Union's formation, a rouge group of Henatan settlers would migrate out of Japoninca and found the independent City-State of New Quailfield on the Principality's eastern border. The two communities clashed instantly, with the neutral settlement of Laurel caught in the middle. Eventually, the citizens of Laurel would force the enemies to the negotiating table. After over a month of (sometimes questionable) diplomacy, peace was achieved, and the three communities were united into the Alturan Confederation in November 2018. Economic hardship and the promise of opportunity brought Altura into the Union as a province in 2021. When it came time to submit a provincial flag in 2022, the Provincial Assembly put together a committee to produce a "piedmonti-fied" version of the Confederation's old flag. |
A Blue field with a vertical red bar at the hoist, the emblem of Altura charged at the dividing line of the bar and the field. | Provincial Flag Submission committee |
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2022 - present
Flint Hill's flag was designed by the province's founder, Rigoberto Mercado Jr., and adopted by the Provincial Assembly in 2022. Mercado designed the flag to be purposefully reminiscent of the flag of El Salvador, as Flint Hill has a large Salvadorian population. At the center he placed a symbol that has come to be known as the "Flint Keystone" and had also been adopted as the province's emblem. Aside from the Salvadorian imagery, the light blue color of the flag subtly signaled the province's strong Tunnist politics. |
A sky-blue and white horizontal tricolor, charged with the Black Keystone at the center. | Rigoberto Mercado Jr. |
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2020 - 2022
2022 - present The most potent symbol of the Province of Peachtree is the Peachtree Legion. Peachtree was founded as part of a large military expedition into the woods of Metanora in late 2019, origionally joining the Union as a Region. In October 2020, Peachtree was invaded by the Civic Authority, but the invasion was eventually repulsed - in large part thanks to the heroics of the Peachtree Legion. Throughout the rest of the Kingsley-Knoll War, the Peachtree Legion continued to prove their excellence across Fort Mill, even participating in the Raid of Pleasant Road which ended the war. The many members of the Legion would become local celebraties and heroes, many of whom would go on to serve as elected officials from the province, and thankful citizens began flying their battle flag outside of homes and official buildings. In early 2022, the legion would adopt a new battle flag after many (MANY) reports that the old design was ugly and "hard to looks at." Later that year, when the Provincial Assembly was deliberating on a design to submit as a provencial flag, they simply submitted the new battle flag - which most people had already began flying. |
A field divided into third: the top third pink, the botthe-left red, and the bottom-right white. In the center, a blue stare and a white sword. | Legate Reese Fontter
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2022 - present
Little is known about he origins of Oakdale's flag, hinting at its likely rushed nature. The design is accredited to Oakdale resident Leonardo Puchuria and was submitted to the Union Government less than 24 hours after the call for designs went out. The only explanation for its symbolism given was for the hornet's nest at its center, which is meant to allude to British General Charles Cornwallis describing the Charlotte region as a "hornet's nest of rebellion" during the American Revolution. |
A green field with a blue chevron taking up the middle third of the flag. Charged at its center, a hornet's nest. | Leonardo Purchuria |
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2022 - present
The flag of Harper's Ferry has everything to do with the province's namesake, Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. More specifically, the province has crafted its identity around the siege of John Brown's fort, and honoring Brown's vision of emancipation and racial equality. The golden background and blue border are derivative of the flag of the State of West Virginia, and the building in its center is a stylized depiction of John Brown's Fort. |
A golden field with a blue border, charged with a depiction of John Brown's Fort in the center. | Harper's Ferry Provincial Assembly |