Flag of Mascylla

Mascylla

Name	Reichsflagge, Reichshandelsflagge
Use	Civil and state flag, civil ensign
Proportion	1:2
Adopted	1924
Design	A horizontal tricolour of blue, white, and gold, and a depiction of the national crown with the antler of a deer in the canton
Variant flag of Mascylla
Name	Reichsdienstflagge, Kriegsflagge
Use	State ensign, war flag
Proportion	1:2
Adopted	1931
Design	A horizontal tricolour of a lighter blue, white, and gold, and a depiction of a blue lion on a golden field in the canton
Variant flag of Mascylla
Name	Dienstflagge der See- und Luftstreitkräfte der Reichswehr
Use	Naval ensign, naval jack, fin flash
Proportion	1:2
Adopted	1924
Design	A swallowtail of the ensign without an addition in the canton

The flag of Mascylla or Mascyllary flag (Hesurian: Maskillische Flagge [maski:lɪʃə fla:ggə]), often referred to as the Three Bands Flag (Hesurian: Dreibandflagge [dʁaɪ̯bantfla:ggə]), is a tricolour flag consisting of three horizontal equally-sized bands displaying the national colours of Mascylla: blue, white, and gold (Hesurian: Blau-Weiß-Gold). The flag was first adopted as the national flag of modern Mascylla after the Mascyllary Revolution, though its main design has been largely attributed to the nation's earlier flag of the Mascyllary Kingdom, excluding a brief interruption in 1923.

While the meaning of the main colours of the flag are not exclusively explained in the any government document, a symbolism was slowly attributed to them. Blue is the traditional color of Aldia as the dirivng force of Mascyllary unification, while they also depict the oceans and rivers. White stands for the purity of the monarchy and its political intent, the people, and the state, and gold, which depicts the colour of the crown and the main colour of the House of Ahnern, which currently rules Mascylla through its sovereign Dorothea I.

Another version which has been widely accepted is that the blue stands for the Elbgau Confederacy, which victoriously fought of Adwhin in the War of the Five Kings to unite Mascylla, hence the smaller and lower stripes of gold and white. However, historians agree upon that King Lukas I personally drafted the earliest version of the flag in the final peace negotiations in Langquaid in 1793. It has since been used as the Mascyllary flag, with a brief interruption of a reversed version of the same colours for the provisional May Republic, which has been used since 1923 until today.

Design and decoration

At the time of the adoption of the flag there were no exact colour specifications other than "the colours of blue, white, and gold", as per Article 15 of the Constitution. However, on 11 May 1993, the High Cout of the Realm introduced a corporate design for the government of Mascylla which defined the specifications of the official colors as the following; the flag's design is formally blazoned as: "Tierced in fess azure, argent and or." As with the design, colours of the flag are only codified and required if produced or used in official capacity by the Mascyllary government. Consequently, other colours can be used for mass-produced versions and reproductions of the flag, and private practice tends to use more saturated colours.

Additionally, the flag may also be decorated with adequate and non-defacing additions, in most cases with golden fringe or trimming. The ceremonial display of the Mascyllary flag includes the use of these enhanced flag versions, particularly in parades, posts and places of honour indoors, and colour guards; all service branches of the Mascyllary Reichswehr use fringed national flags for parades or colour guards, while such additions to a reproduced privately used flag are forbidden.

Colour scheme	Blue		White		Gold
RAL		5026 Denim blue		9010 White		1004 Golden yellow
HKS		2.3G 2.9/1.8		1, 1, 1		1.5Y 2.9/1.1
CMYK		50.0.2.73		0.0.0.0		0.0.90.14
Pantone		1432		White		5442*
Web color		#131E3A		#FFFFFF		#E29D12
Decimal RGB		16,21,298		0,0,0		11,182,63

List of Mascyllary flags

National flags

Flag	English name Hesurian name	Date	Use	Description
	Flag of the Crowned Republic of Mascylla Flagge der Gekrönten Republik Maskillien	1924 on	National flag and civil ensign of Mascylla	A horizontal tricolour of blue, white, and gold, proportioned 1:2
	War Ensign of the Crowned Republic of Mascylla Kriegsflagge und Reichsdienstflagge der Gekrönten Republik Maskillien	1928 on	Ensign and war flag of Mascylla, only permitted for use by the national authorities	Two horizontal fields of a lighter blue, white, and a lighter gold, with a blue lion a yellow field in the upper left fly, proportioned 2:3

Ensigns

Flag	English name Hesurian name	Date	Use	Description
	Naval and Air Service Flag and Jack of the Crowned Republic of Mascylla Seedienstflagge der See- und Luftstreitkräfte und Gösch der Gekrönten Republik Maskillien	12 July 1797	Naval ensign, jack, Navy flag, and fin flash, used on ceremonial military holidays, state visits, and flown together with other flags of armed forces branches	Swallow-tailed variant of the war ensign without the addition in the canton, proportioned 16:9
	Pennant Breitwimpel	4 October 1802	Pennant, used on newly commissioned naval vessels and ships commanded by a navy officer	Pennant of white, with a blue lion on a yellow field
	Flag of the Royal Army Flagge des königlichen Heeres	11 April 1925	Flag of the Mascyllary Army, used on ceremonial military holidays, state visits, and flown together with other flags of armed forces branches	Plain red flag defaced with the Army's crest, proportioned 10:21
	Flag of the Royal Air Force Flagge des königlichen Luftheeres	26 March 1955	Flag of the Mascyllary Air Force, used on ceremonial military holidays, state visits, and flown together with other flags of armed forces branches	Horizontal tricolour of Mascylla in vertical shape on a light blue field, with the Air Force roundel in the light blue section, proportioned 1:2

Inter-service branch ensigns

Flag	English name Hesurian name	Date	Use	Description
	Flag of the Chief of the Mascyllary General Defence Staff Flagge des Vorsitzenden des Maskillischen Allgemeinen Verteidigungsstabes	4 November 1966	Used on land and on naval vessels when the Chief of the General Defence Staff is present	A gold-white quartered flag with a blue border emblazoned with the General Defence Staff's crest, proportioned 1:1
	Flag of the Counsellor of Defense Flagge des Verteidigungskonsuls	1925	Used on land and naval vessels when the Counsellor of Defense is present	A gold-blue quartered flag with a white border emblazoned with the badge of Mascylla, proportioned 1:1

Army rank flags

Flag	English name Hesurian name	Date	Use	Description
	Flag of the General Field Marshal of the Royal Army Flagge des Generalfeldmarschalls des königlichen Heeres	1902 on	Used on land and on naval vessels when the General Field Marshal is present	A gold flag with a red border emblazoned with the black-white bordered Black Cross, proportioned 1:1
	Flag of the Colonel of the Regiment of the Royal Army Flagge des Obersts des königlichen Heeresregiments	1902 on	Used on land and on naval vessels when the Colonel of the Regiment of the Army is present	A white flag with a red border emblazoned with the black-white bordered Black Cross and the crest of the Army Supreme Command (Oberkommando des königlichen Heeres), proportioned 1:1
	Flag of the Vice Colonel of the Regiment of the Royal Army Flagge des stellvertretenden Obersts des königlichen Heeresregiments	1902 on	Used on land and on naval vessels when the Vice Colonel of the Regiment of the Army is present	A white flag with a red border emblazoned with the black-white bordered Black Cross and the crest of the Army Supreme Command in the upper left corner, proportioned 1:1

Air Force rank flags

Flag	English name Hesurian name	Date	Use	Description
	Flag of the General Field Marshal of the Royal Air Force Flagge des Generalfeldmarschalls des königlichen Luftheeres	1928 on	Used on land and on naval vessels when the General Field Marshal is present	A gold flag with a light blue border emblazoned with the black-white bordered Black Cross, proportioned 1:1
	Flag of the Colonel of the Regiment of the Royal Air Force Flagge des Obersts des königlichen Luftheeresregiments	1928 on	Used on land and on naval vessels when the Colonel of the Regiment of the Air Force is present	A white flag with a light blue border emblazoned with the black-white bordered Black Cross and the crest of the Air Force Supreme Command (Oberkommando des königlichen Luftheeres), proportioned 1:1
	Flag of the Vice Colonel of the Regiment of the Royal Air Force Flagge des stellvertretenden Obersts des königlichen Luftheeresregiments	1928 on	Used on land and on naval vessels when the Vice Colonel of the Regiment of the Air Force is present	A white flag with a light blue border emblazoned with the black-white bordered Black Cross and a golden five-pointed star in the upper left corner, proportioned 1:1

Naval rank flags

Flag	English name Hesurian name	Date	Use	Description
	Queen's Color for the Royal War Navy Königinnenfarbe der königlichen Kriegsmarine	2005 on	Used on naval vessels when the Monarch is present, at their sole discretion and pleasure	Mascyllary naval jack with Dorothy I's royal cypher in its left corner, proportioned 3:4
	Flag of the High Admiral of the Royal War Navy Flagge des Hochadmirals der königlichen Kriegsmarine	1956 on	Used on land and on naval vessels when the High Admiral is present	A white flag with a dark blue border emblazoned with the black-white bordered Black Cross, proportioned 1:1. In contrast of the standards of the Field Marshals of the Army and Air Force, it does not feature a golden background to visually distinguish it from the latter as viewed from afar.
	Flag of the Chief of Naval Staff Flagge des Stabschefs der königlichen Kriegsmarine	1905 on	Used on land and on naval vessels when the Chief of Naval Staff is present	A white flag with a dark blue border emblazoned with the black-white bordered Black Cross and the crest of the Navy Supreme Command (Oberkommando der königlichen Kriegsmarine), proportioned 1:1
	Flag of the Vice Chief of Naval Staff Flagge des stellvertretenden Stabschefs der königlichen Kriegsmarine	1905 on	Used on land and on naval vessels when the Vice Chief of Naval Staff is present	A white flag with a dark blue border emblazoned with the black-white bordered Black Cross and the crest of the Navy Supreme Command in the upper left corner, proportioned 1:1
	Admiral's flag Kommandoflagge eines Admirals	1970 on	Used on naval vessels when an admiral is on board	Mascyllary naval jack with three white six-pointed stars in a equilateral triangle, proportioned 1:2
	Vice Admiral's flag Kommandoflagge eines Vizeadmirals	1970 on	Used on naval vessels when a vice admiral is on board	Mascyllary naval jack with two vertical white six-pointed stars, proportioned 1:2
	Rear Admiral's flag Kommandoflagge eines Konteradmirals	1970 on	Used on naval vessels when a rear admiral is on board	Mascyllary naval jack with one white six-pointed star, proportioned 1:2
	Commodore's flag Kommandoflagge eines Kommodores	1973 on	Used on naval vessels when a commodore is on board	Mascyllary naval jack as a triangular banner with one white six-pointed star, proportioned 1:2

Royal standards

Flag	English name Hesurian name	Date	Use	Description
	Royal Standard of the Crowned Republic of Mascylla Königliche Standarte der Gekrönten Republik Maskillien	2 November 1847	Standard of the Mascyllary monarch, used on land, on naval vessels, at residences, and at government buildings when the Monarch is present	A banner of the Queen's arms, the Coat of Arms of Mascylla, proportioned 1:2
	Royal Standard of Queen Dorothy I Königliche Standarte der Königin Dorothea I.	25 November 2005	Standard of Queen Dorothy I, used on land, on naval vessels, at residences, and at government buildings when the Queen is present	A banner of the Queen's arms, the Coat of Arms of Mascylla, defaced with the arms of her royal cypher, proportioned 1:2
	Royal Standard of the Crown Prince of Ahnern Königliche Standarte des Kronprinzen von Ahnern	25 November 2005	Standard of Crown Prince Frederick, used on land, on naval vessels, at residences, and at government buildings when the Crown Prince is present	A banner of the Crown Prince's arms, the Coat of Arms of Mascylla, defaced with a label of three points, proportioned 1:2

Government flags

Flag	English name Hesurian name	Date	Use	Description
	Standard of the Prime Minister of the Crowned Republic of Mascylla Standarte des Premierministers der Gekrönten Republik Maskillien	4 August 1966	Standard of the Prime Minister of Mascylla, used on land and on naval vessels when the Prime Minister is present	A golden field encased by a white and blue border, defaced with the Greater State Arms of the Government of Mascylla, proportioned 1:2
	Service Flag of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Realm Dienstflagge des Reichsaußenministeriums	1924 on	Used at buildings and on naval vessels used by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs	The Mascyllary flag defaced with the royal coat of arms of Mascylla in a white circle, proportioned 1:2
	Service Flag of the Remaining Administrative Branches of the Realm Dienstflagge der Übrigen Verwaltungszweige des Reiches	1927 on	Used on naval and land vessels of the state, if the use of the state and naval ensign, and the flag of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not authorized	The Mascyllary flag defaced with the Badge of Mascylla in a white circle, proportioned 1:2
	Flag of the Imperial Police	17 July 1998		A white flag with a blue field on the left third of the flag, with the Imperial Police crest on the white field
	Flag of the Mascyllary Post Flagge der Maskillischen Post	1924 on		The Mascyllary flag with the badge of the Mascyllary Post, proportioned 1:2

Subnational flags

States and Free Cities

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1793 on	Flag of Adwinia	Horizontal tricolour of red, green and white (from top to bottom)
	1793 on	Flag of Aldia	Two horizontal fields of blue and yellow
	1917 on	Flag of Elpsia	Two horizontal fields of white and red
	1967 on	Flag of Eustria–Folnery	Horizontal tricolour of red, yellow and blue (from top to bottom), the coat of arms of Eustria–Folnery in the center
	1871 on	Flag of Falia	Two horizontal stripes of white and green
	1793 on	Flag of Flussmund	Two horizontal stripes of red and white
	1843 on	Flag of Holnia	Two horizontal fields of white and blue, with the coat of arms of Holnia in the first third
	1798 on	Flag of Königsreh	Two horizontal fields of green and yellow
	1793 on	Flag of Lower Therundy–Lancaide	Horizontal tricolour of yellow, red and white
	1900 on	Flag of Nelgery	Two horizontal fields of white and blue
	1793 on	Flag of Pereuth	Vertical tricolour of blue, red and white (from left to right), the arms of Pereuth juxtaposed between the blue and red field
	1827 on	Flag of Shwesia	Two horizontal fields of red and black
	1801 on	Flag of Therundy–Welsbach	Horizontal tricolour of green, white and red (from top to bottom), the white stripe is divided into an upper white and a lower yellow field
	1950 on	Flag of Tudonia	Horizontal tricolour of red, yellow, and blue (from top to bottom)

Historical flags

Elbgau Confederacy (1785–1793)

Main article: Elbgau Confederation

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1786–1793	Merchant flag and marine flag (Handelsflagge und Kriegsschiffsgösch)	A golden cross on a white field, quartered with blue fields, proportioned 2:3

Mascyllary Kingdom (1793–1923)

Main article: Mascyllary Kingdom

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1793–1847	Royal Standard and state flag (Königliche Standarte und Staatsflagge)	A white field defaced with a version of the lesser arms of the Mascyllary monarchy, collared with the Order of the Crown (Orden der Krone), crowned with St Theodore's Crown (Sankt-Theodorichskrone), proportioned 2:3
	1847	National flag (Nationalflagge)	A tricolour of three equal horizontal bands of yellow, white and dark blue (from top to bottom), proportioned 1:2
	1847–1923	National and merchant flag (National- und Handelsflagge)	A tricolour of three equal horizontal bands of yellow, white and light blue (from top to bottom), proportioned 1:2
	1847–1923	Colonial flag (Kolonialflagge)	A tricolour of three equal horizontal bands of yellow, white and blue (from top to bottom), defaced with the coat of arms in a white circle, proportioned 1:2