Flag of Mascylla

Mascylla

Name	Reichsbanner und Reichshandelsbanner
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	Kriegsbanner
Use	Ensign, war flag
Proportion	1:2
Adopted	1931
Design	A horizontal tricolour of blue, white, and gold, and a depiction of the nation's deer and bear in the canton
Variant flag of Mascylla
Name	Dienstbanner 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 the deer and bear in the canton

The flag of Mascylla or Mascyllary flag (Hesurian: Maskillische Flagge), often referred to as the Three Bands Flag (Hesurian: Dreibandfahne), 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

National flags

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1924 on	The Mascyllary Flag, national flag and civil ensign of Mascylla	A horizontal tricolour of blue, white, and gold
	1924 on	Ceremonial flag of Mascyllary authorities, only permitted for use by authorities and institutions and by the public during national holidays and events	A horizontal tricolour of blue, white, and gold, and a depiction of the national crown with the antler of a deer in the canton
	1928 on	Ensign and war flag (Kriegsbanner) of Mascylla, only permitted for use by the national authorities	Two horizontal fields of blue and white and gold, splitting the second field, with a stylized coat of arms of Mascylla in the canton

Ensigns

Military flags

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	12 July 1797	Naval ensign, naval jack and fin flash	Swallowtail of the ensign without the deer and bear in the canton
	4 October 1802	Pennant	Horizontal pennant of blue and yellow
	11 April 1925	Flag of the Mascyllary Army	Plain blue flag defaced with the Army's crest
	26 March 1955	Flag of the Mascyllary Air Force	Tricolour of Mascylla in vertical shape on a light blue field, with the Air Force roundel in the light blue

Naval rank flags

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		Flag of the High Admiral	Mascyllary naval jack with four stars in a square
		Flag of an Admiral	Mascyllary naval jack with three stars in a triangle
		Flag of a Counter Admiral	Mascyllary naval jack with two vertical stars
		Flag of a Flotilla Admiral	Mascyllary naval jack with one star
		Flag of a Commodore	Mascyllary naval jack as a triangular banner with one star

Standards

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	Standard of the Prime Minister of Mascylla	4 November 1966	A white field encased by a yellow and blue border, defaced with the greater coat of arms of the Government of Mascylla
	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

Subnational flags

States and Free Cities

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1793 on	Flag of Adwhin	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 Elpsland	Two horizontal fields of white and red, the coat of arms of Elpsland in the center
	1967 on	Flag of Eustria	Horizontal tricolour of red, yellow and blue (from top to bottom), the coat of arms of Eustria in the center
	1871 on	Flag of Falia	Horizontal tricolour of yellow, red and white
	1793 on	Flag of Flussmund	Two horizontal stripes of red and white
	1900 on	Flag of Folnery	Two vertical fields of blue and white, defaced with a double-headed eagle crowned and divided in white and yellow
	1805 on	Flag of Gotia	Horizontal tricolour of yellow, white and blue, defaced with the coat of arms of Gotia
	1793 on	Flag of Halstein	Horizontal tricolour of blue, white and yellow (from top to bottom)
	1843 on	Flag of Holnia	Two horizontal fields of white and blue, with the coat of arms of Holnia in the first third
	1959 on	Flag of Ihlarn	Vertical tricolour of green, white and black
	1793 on	Flag of Jusland	Horizontal tricolour of blue, white and black (from top to bottom)
	1804 on	Flag of Kreshia	Horizontal tricolour of red, white and red
	1798 on	Flag of the Kronlande	Two horizontal fields of green and yellow
	1793 on	Flag of Langquaid	Two horizontal fields of yellow and white
	1866 on	Flag of Laurenz	Horizontal tricolour of red, yellow and black
	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 emblem of Pereuth juxtaposed between the blue and red field
	1827 on	Flag of Shwesia	Two horizontal fields of red and yellow
	1924 on	Flag of Sigismund	Two horizontal fields of yellow and blue, the coat of arms of Sigismund in the left half (central) of the flag
	1801 on	Flag of Terunder-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
File:Flag of Tudonia.png	1950 on	Flag of Tudonia	Horizontal tricolour of red, white and blue (from top to bottom)

Historical flags

Elbgau Confederacy (1757–1793)

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1757–1793	National and merchant flag (National- und Handelsbanner)	A tricolour of three equal horizontal bands of yellow, white and blue (from top to bottom) with the Elbgau Confederacy seal in the canton on a white square
	1757–1793	War flag (Kriegsbanner)	A tricolour of three equal horizontal bands of yellow, white and blue (from top to bottom)
	1757–1793	Marine jack (Kriegsschiffsgösch)	The Elbgau Confederacy seal on a yellow field

Mascyllary Kingdom (1793–1923)

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1793–1923	National and merchant flag (National- und Handelsbanner)	A tricolour of three equal horizontal bands of yellow, white and blue (from top to bottom)
	1804–1923	Colonial flag (Kolonialbanner)	A tricolour of three equal horizontal bands of yellow, white and blue (from top to bottom) with the coat of arms enfaced on the left half of the flag