3250: Flag Design
| Flag Design |
 Title text: Every place has a local cryptid; more places need a local Pictish Beast, a creature in historical art that's drawn so weirdly that no one can tell what animal it's supposed to be. |
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This comic is a parody of normal flag designs. For example, animals are commonly used on flags, and stars are also occasionally on flags. However regular flags don't have themselves on it, and don't have tributes or references to science.[citation needed] It is designed similarly to the xkcd Phone series, with a number of improbable features indicated with labels.
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- [A flag with many things on it.]
- [Caption below flag:]
- I think our flag design committee really knocked it out of the park
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Could there possibly be a reference to New Zealand’s laser kiwi flag? 2A02:6B6F:E226:B00:2D7E:D360:EEA6:2104 22:01, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
Oooh, I like a good Flag comic. Not been one for a while, and I used to use one of them as my xkcd fora avatar. 81.179.199.253 22:09, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
what is that animal Mathmaster (talk) 22:22, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
The inner flag doesn't have its own inner flag... AoPS is superior (talk) 22:43, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
- Which suggests to me is that this flag is of one nation/entity that incorporates the national flag of another nation (often done... see Hawaii's flag). It only says "National flag" (which, as it happens, has many identical features, just not all), rather than "this' nation's national flag", so it needn's necessarily be "The People's Republic of Drosteland" being totally self-referential through infinite recursion. 81.179.199.253 23:38, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
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