Flag of the Menako Islands

Menako Islands

Name	Flag of the Menako Islands
Use	Civil and state flag
Proportion	2:3
Adopted	In use since 1887
Design	A gironny of twelve, white, black, yellow, brown, blue and green.

The flag of the Menako Islands is the national flag of the Menako Islands, a constituent country of the Hellonian Realm. The flag was adopted during the unification of the South German and Hellonian Menako Islands in 1886.

Description

The flag is a gironny of white, black, yellow, Hellonian blue, brown and blue. Each coloured stripe refers to one of the two original nations or the two colonial masters. Hellonian blue represents Hellona, yellow represents the South German States, brown represents the former nation of Boekeren, and the blue represents the former nation of Seeland.

Order of display with other flags

Even though all the national flags in the Hellonian realm are seen as equal, when flags are raised and lowered or carried in a procession, the national flag of the Hellonian Realm takes precedence over all the others. In the Menako Islands, the Menakupan flag always precedes the flags of all other flags after the flag of the Hellonian Realm.

The order of precedence is:

1. The national flag of the Hellonian Realm
2. The flag of the Menako Islands
3. The flag of the other constituent countries (On government buildings)
4. The flags of the Provinces of the Menako Islands, in alphabetical order, if more than one is flown
5. The flag of the municipality

If there is a visiting head of state, that country's flag may be set third in precedence, all other flags dropping a rank. When three flags are raised, the Hellonian flag should be in the middle, flanked by the two others. If these are provincial and municipal flags, the provincial flag should be put right as seen from the front and the municipal left.

If the flag is displayed next to other national flags, the order is determined by the alphabetical order of the Hellonian names of the countries in question.