Flag of Awating

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Awating
AwatingFlag.png
Use National flag
Proportion ~10:17
Adopted 1981
Design A triband of dark blue, dark red, and dark green fesses, with a seven-pointed yellow star on the upper hoist side.

The flag of Awating has been in continuous use in its present form since 2005.

Colors and symbolism

Scheme Hex color
Dark blue #002147
Dark red #812332
Dark green #284d36

The colors are placed in a specific order symbolically to represent the world. On the bottom, the green fess symbolizes the earth, which is an important focal point of Awatese folk religion as a realm of immortality, where souls travel and are reincarnated. It is also believed that humanity first began by sprouting out of the ground during prehistory, when the planet had just formed out of hardened stars and spatial matter. The depth of the green's color suggest abundance and growth.

The middle fess is dark red or burgundy and represents humans and beings of the flesh, situated above the ground and below the sky (see below). The dark red also traditionally represents innocence, and its position on the "ground" on the flag symbolizes how the land and people support each other, and implies the importance of protecting and preserving nature and the diverse environment of the country.

The upper fess, which contains the yellow seven-pointed star on the upper hoist side of the flag, represents the sky. It is specifically colored dark-blue and juxtaposed with the bright yellow star to represent a night sky. Stars were used as an important navigational symbol for the Mañi settlers who were the predecessors of the modern Awatese ethnicity. Each of the seven points of the star represent one of the seven historical regions of Awating (Nekmawą, Kąkoma, Uringał, Awąya, Minminałung, Nipokunganama, Lakkwąxe).

History

Flag of the Bezpicem Bevesri (Three Straits Colony) of Vosan
Flag of the Qonklese Empire
Flag of Awating as a constituent republic of Awatomänea

The main color combination of dark blue, dark red, and dark green has been used as Awatese national colors since the late 19th and early-to-mid 20th centuries, when Awatese nationalist movements began to form in response to Vosan colonization from 1888 to around 1945 and then to Qonklese occupation during the Pangyeoun War.

1888-1945: colonial era

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1945-1949: Qonklese occupation

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1949-1981: Helsonian satellite state

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1981-present: current design

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Current flag of Awating

Other historical flags

The first instance of Awatese national colors used to represent the nation of Awating dates back to about 1912, with the flag used by the Awatese National Liberation Front (1912-1949). The ANLF began operating around the outbreak of what is known as the Uprising of 1912, or the 2475 Rebellion, and continued to resist for about 30 years, up until and including the Qonklese occupation of Awatomänea during the GEW.

Controversies

Numerous controversies have arisen in regards to the Awatese flag's design and usage. Critics have argued that the use of a Mañi navigational symbol as national iconography is ethnocentric and ignores the many non-Mañic cultures of the country.

2012 flag-burning incident

On January 14, 2012, in Nąxąyo, a predominantly Ngigu town in Ilu province in southern Awating,

2014 arrest of Łałami Řąziya Ngukunum Karał

Flag pledge

History

Since Awatese independence in 1981, students in Awating up to the university level have been required by law to say a flag pledge every morning before the first classes begin. Most primary and secondary schools in the country have an outdoor flagpole, before which this pledge is recited.

Current version (2005)

Awatese (romanized) Awatese (native script) IPA (Awatese) English
Ngąyape xąngihąnimału a Tanuři lepingą a łąxe neyą; rąxąngątuhařąt peyape ye netą a pełąxelepingą Ąwąting mutą rą a pezangyangą xąngątunima a kwąxengą Ąwąting. NoIApexoNihonimxuAtnuRilepiNoAxoxeneIO roxoNotuhRotpeIApeIEnetoApexoxelepiNoOUOtiN mutoroApezNiANoxoNotunimAkuOxeNoOUOtiN [ŋɐjape sɐŋihɐnimaɬu a tanuri lepiŋɐ a ɬɐse nejɐ ɾɐsɐŋɐtuharɐt pejape je netɐ a peɬɐselepiŋɐ ɐwɐtĩ mutɐ ɾɐ a pezaŋjaŋɐ sɐŋɐtunima a kwɐseŋɐ ɐwɐtĩ] I pledge that I will protect the Tanuři with all my heart; that with this pledge I invoke my allegiance to Awating and my will to protect my country Awating.

Original version (1981)

The original version had an extra phrase at the end, which was removed in 2005 due to being seen as overly aggressive and counteractive to international cooperation.

Awatese (romanized) Awatese (native script) IPA (Awatese) English
Ngąyape xąngihąnimału a Tanuři lepingą a łąxe neyą; rąxąngątuhařąt peyape ye netą a pełąxelepingą Ąwąting mutą rą a pezangyangą xąngątunima a kwąxengą Ąwąting; rąxąngątuhurłu tałinga a nguning a łąxe kwąxengą letą. NoIApexoNihonimxuAtnuRilepiNoAxoxeneIO roxoNotuhRotpeIApeIEnetoApexoxelepiNoOUOtiN mutoroApezNiANoxoNotunimAkuOxeNoOUOtiN roxoNotuhurxutxiNANuniNAxoxekuOxeNoleto [ŋɐjape sɐŋihɐnimaɬu a tanuri lepiŋɐ a ɬɐse nejɐ ɾɐsɐŋɐtuharɐt pejape je netɐ a peɬɐselepiŋɐ ɐwɐtĩ mutɐ ɾɐ a pezaŋjaŋɐ sɐŋɐtunima a kwɐseŋɐ ɐwɐtĩ ɾɐsɐŋɐtuhuɾɬu taɬiŋa a ŋunĩ a ɬɐse kwɐseŋɐ letɐ] I pledge that I will protect the Tanuři with all my heart; that with this pledge I invoke my allegiance to Awating and my will to protect my country Awating; and that I will stop all foreign aggressors within my country.

Controversy

Critics of the compulsory flag pledge have argued that it is an attempt at indoctrinating students and restricting freedom of thought. It has also been accused of hypocritically imposing nationalist ideologies onto students; some critics see the pledge as standing in direct opposition to the Contemporary Conception Party's revolutionary, anti-colonial nature, as it is often claimed to be an analogue to oppressive colonial-era practices.

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