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That Time I Became A Dictator Of A Small Asian Communist Nation

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We can go for bog-standard commie designs, I guess. It's the safest and most conventional option and least likely to alter anything.

I use this in Politics & War (a game).

 
I would like to point out that Captain Hiro strongly suggests we put a pneumatic hammer and chainsaw on the flag design we use. 👀
 
abominable said:
?? Wdym? Like I'm pretty sure our military can evolve as needed.
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I assume we'll unveil our mech dramatically to the world (as it should be), but I imagine the PR fallout will be different depending on what model we use. Military vs industrial rep depending on whether we present a military or construction much an an example.

(Through I do love the idea of making a engineering version of the Iron Tiger that's 90% parts compatible with the military one to get around arms embargoes by shipping 'civilian use only' mech. See how long untill people start screeching about 'dual use!'.) :V
 
Cyberphilosipher said:
No But I assumed that Hero was going to use it?

I personally didn't want them to do it because I like Japan and America's relation to continue to be that strange wholesome moment in the Cold War.
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That just my first thought when thinking what bigger problem than "suddenly Murica waste trillions trying to make a mecha, after spooked like headless chicken".
 
HeroCooky said:
If anyone has any questions about the nation/history, I am more than happy to answer.
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In slightly older history how linked to Chinese history is Guangchou? Like are we a pretty undeniably independent thing that's existed Independently for effectively it's entire history or are we more of a Manchuria where we are on again off again Vassals/Tributaries/part of the mainland countries borders?

Clearly our culture has a pretty large shift from mainland Chinese cultures but it's kind of weird because while we have a lot differences from what I can tell from names for example our language is lot closer to Mandarin or Korean then say Vietnamese or Cantonese, who geographically would probably make more since for us to be similar to. What this tells me is that the main people group that makes up modern Guangchou probably came from northern Mainland China at a much later point than the Japanese Yayoi people did for example, allowing a significant enough shift of culture but with a slightly less significant shift in language, why exactly Chinese settlers would come from that area to southernly proto-Guangchou I don't know but it's been my running theory.
 
Magoose said:
Those flags look awesome and dandy!
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Thanks :D

I was trying to think more like heraldry, which is not strictly what goes into flags, as I understand it, but still, yellow island with tiger face over a blue wave seemed like a pretty obvious for a representation of Guangchou. Why the rest of the flag is pink...well, you know? It is the flag of Guangchou.

And the newer one needed some soviet red, but that would've clashed horribly with the pink, so the wave and background switched colors. Add some standard hammer and sickle stuff and voilà.
 
CyberEnby said:
I assume we'll unveil our mech dramatically to the world (as it should be), but I imagine the PR fallout will be different depending on what model we use. Military vs industrial rep depending on whether we present a military or construction much an an example.

(Through I do love the idea of making a engineering version of the Iron Tiger that's 90% parts compatible with the military one to get around arms embargoes by shipping 'civilian use only' mech. See how long untill people start screeching about 'dual use!'.) :V
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true. in a way it's sort of like a soft and hard opening. a 'soft' unveiling of a civilian design would be more acceptable. a lot of commercial and trade opportunities (from a lot, if not all, of the superpowers) to start with. and it sends a message that your interests are, for now, largely defensive. because they know full well you already have military applications in production if you'e willing to play this card, and that choosing to present the civilian use is definitely less threatening and suggests a chance for continued peace.
 
guangchou and guangdong are really similar, honestly it really reads weird, guang means wide or vast and chou is uh, weird because i'm reasonably certain both guangchou and guangzhou are both acceptable romanizations from chinese, or atleast in chinese the pronounciation is close enough i can barely hear the difference
 
Pokly said:
Uh, context please? I believe I missed something...
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Ahh here is the Context.

Cyberphilosipher said:
#ARPANET Expansion
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The ARPANET is one of the Precursors to the Internet.

Pokly said:
Is it this Cyber? Did they made a net"World" or a world within internet?
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No...they uhh, accidently did something involving Mecha, used the Proto Internet as a thing and made progress on the Internet by accident.

Edit: They also started another Tech Tree early.
 
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Nando said:
Thanks :D

I was trying to think more like heraldry, which is not strictly what goes into flags, as I understand it, but still, yellow island with tiger face over a blue wave seemed like a pretty obvious for a representation of Guangchou. Why the rest of the flag is pink...well, you know? It is the flag of Guangchou.

And the newer one needed some soviet red, but that would've clashed horribly with the pink, so the wave and background switched colors. Add some standard hammer and sickle stuff and voilà.
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The old flag is very... memetically Guangchou for sure.

I don't mind the new one I think it's very unique and interesting, though I don't recommend the hammer and sickle imagery, while it's true it is communist imagery, geo-politically it's much more tied into the Soviet Block then Asian communist countries were and with China right there I don't think any flag the new Government of Guangchou would have chosen would have even slightly been tied to the soviets instead of the Chinese, It's why I personally used the Gold Star instead as it's much more tied to Chinese Communism than the hammer and sickle were.
 
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