Flag of the RoM

**Much of the history and meaning here is rooted in the Republic of Polynesia (RoP). To read about the RoP, click here.**

## Overview

   Every flag has a history and meaning and this page will cover all of this information about the flag of the Republic of Micronesia (RoM)!

**Last Updated:** July 18, 2020

### **Symbolism of the Current Flag**

* The tricolour (2 red stripes & 1 white stripe in the middle) represents the historical ties the RoM has to the RoP. In fact, they are technically still the same country but with a different name!
* The vertical orientation of the tricolour represents the flag of the CRoP; a splinter nation that caused the first RoP Civil War. This reference was chosen in order to mend the ties between the two formerly hostile groups.
* The Central Golden Coat of Arms is the Coat of Arms of the RoM. The name is printed in its golden-spiked roundel; the golden colour representing the rich lands of Micronesia.
* The Coat of Arms' text, "Republic of Polandball", was the name of the RoP until June 2020 where Britannia's Labour Government renamed the nation to "Republic of Polynesia" following a National Renaming Referendum. "Royal" was added by Belg in reference to the great support for the Monarchy in the nation from January-May 2020.
* On the banner version, the black circle in the middle is supposed to represent the text on the Coat of Arms in the drawn version of the flag.

### **History of the Current Flag**

**Time as Flag of the Nation:** December 2019 - Present

**Creators:** Tsar\_\_Putin (Belgianball made the drawn version after Tsar's banner version)

The current flag was made by Tsar due to his goal to redesign the original flag since it seemed "boring" to him and to mend ties between the RoP and CRoP. Learning from his mistakes during the Wolos era to change the flag, Tsar stuck to the red-and-white tricolour design of the RoP instead of using the CRoP Cyan. The central golden roundel was added with a black dot in the back to increase contrast in the banner, which in turn lead to Belgianball changing the RoP Coat of Arms from the simplistic Wolos design to the smooth golden design. A Parliament vote was held to change the flag after Tsar finished his design and it passed easily.

Belgianball changed the Coat of Arms on the drawn version from saying "Royal Republic of Polandball" to saying "Republic of Micronesia" to modernize the design.

### **History & Symbolism of the Original RoP Flag**

**Time as Flag of the Nation:** September 2019 - December 2019

**Creators:** Drawn version by ColonelKai (Wolos), New Ballville Flag by Sealand, Banner version by Wolos

**History:**

The original flag of the RoP started as a banner that looked exactly like the Austrian Flag in real life. A while after the Polynesia Discord Server was made, Wolos made the drawn version of the RoP flag to act as the Discord Server Icon. It featured the same horizontal red-and-white tricolour design as the banner and added a Coat of Arms saying "Republic of Polandball" in both English and German.

**Symbolism:**

* The horizontal tricolour doesn't have any symbolism
* The Coat of Arms' text, "Republic of Polandball" was the name of the RoP until June 2020 where Britannia's Labour Government renamed the nation to "Republic of Polynesia"
* The German version of the country's name was added to both fill in empty space and as a reference to the large influx of ethnically German players in September-October 2019
* The center of the original Coat of Arms was changed twice; first depicting a player mining in a forest (image was unfortunately lost to time), then changed to a sword with a banner to represent the RoP's national pride and fighting spirit.
* The version with the pickaxe has "New Ballville" in the top left in reference to the RoP's capital, New Ballville.
* The flag of the RoP's Capital, New Ballville, replaced the sword in the Coat of Arms with a Piackaxe to keep "mining" theme, and had "New Ballville" written in the top left (It was very common to misspell "New Ballville" as "New Ballvill" at the time)

### **Attempted Changes During the Wolos Government**

**Time it Happened:** October 2019

**Designer:** Tsar

When Tsar was Deputy Prime Minister of the Humanitarian Party CentreCo Government, he decided to get people to redesign the original RoP flag that he found "boring". He ended up being the only one eager enough to try, and all of his designs were rejected by Parliament. He tried again in December 2019 and succeed.