Flags in Star Wars

Flags being held for the competitors










The flags are not explained. Are they personal flags? Flags of the specific alien races? Flags of the districts that they come from? Or is their some sort of political religious reason for the flags? Only George Lucas knows, email me if you got his number.

In Episode I: the Phantom Menace flags take center stage just before the beginning of the Pod Race with young 'Darth Vader', little Annie - Anakin Skywalker. An unfinished C3P-0 is the flag bearer for the occasion. The colours for Annie are blue and white and the design is rather geometrically complex.


C3P-0 Holding the flag of Annie's blue and white flag on the left just before the 'hairless' camel farts in Jar Jar Binks' face. Many Star Wars fans were delighted to see this happen.




Another Birds Eye View of the Flags













Interesting to note in Star Wars, the desert planet of Tatooine has two suns, while the desert planet Arrakis of Dune has two moons. Luke soberly wonders about his destiny while looking at the iconic binary sun sunset of Tatooine, while Paul Atreides vision of the two full moons of Arrakis causes him to trip his brains out with a flashback after eating the psychoactive mind bending spice.

You can infer that Herbert may have did a lot of drugs while Lucas played it safe.

Iconic image of a binary sun set on desert planet of Tatooine

Two moons of Arrakis give Paul the idea he is the galactic messiah

Rough Rendition of Annie's Flag

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Flags of Dune

Flag of House Atreides on arrival at Dune











The movie Dune (1984) based on the novel by Frank Herbert. Dune was of the few movies to actually show flags of alien civilizations. The primary flag shown is that of the protagonists family and assumed home world on Caladan. Calandan is quite the opposite of Dune and has plenty of water unlike Dune.

The Colours of House Atreides
are dark green and black
Right now Hollywood is hot with remakes of Sci-Fri from the 80s! Tron, Superman, Transformers, etc. Soon we may soon get a remake of Dune. It totally needs one.




Frank Herbert was keenly aware the link between religion, psychoactive substances, science, and the seductive power of politics.

The first American Flag

US Flag from December 3 1775,
All of 1776 and most of 1777, until June 14

This flag is a copy of the British East India Company.

There is an ongoing debate that this design may have been the inspiration for the new united 13 Colonies.

This was the official flag when the Declaration of Independence was written, signed, and declared by Thomas Jefferson in the Summer of 1776!!!

Thus all the patriots who surrendered their lives for freedom and independence up until June 14, 1777 did not die under the 'stars and stripes', rather they gave up their lives under the 'stripes and crosses.' At least officially that is, and it's most likely the colonial freedom fighters had lots of help from agents in Parliament via the 'liberal anti-establishment Whigs' of the time.

The US held on the Union Flag for three years, unlike Canada and Australia. Canada held on the to Union Flag for 98 years from 1867-1965. Australia is still holding on to it since 1901, surpassing Canada's 98 year hold in 1999. Thus Australia has had the Union Flag the longest since federation standing at 109 years as of 2010! New Zealand crossed the 100 year mark in 2007 and is currently holding it at 103 years!

Who will hold on to it the longest? Only time will tell.

If only somehow the UK were to give Australia or New Zealand hurt feelings, only then would their flag change. If the Prime Minister or Parliament were to bash Aussies or Kiwis it would give them the momentum to change their flag. Or perhaps rule against them is some land-political dispute?

Unfortunately negativity works wonders in personal motivation.

Jamaica & 'little jamaica' ie: Dominica

Flag of Jamaica

Jamaica and Dominica are in the Caribbean and have a deep ethnic heritage to Africa, and linguistic heritage to England. Even their flag designs are reflective of this. Jamaica has a 'Black Scottish' flag while Dominica has a 'Black English' flag, or rather Scotland has a 'White Jamaican' flag and England has a 'White Dominica' flag. Bottom line is that a certain percentage of Jamaican people have Scottish heritage just as a certain percentage of Dominica people have English heritage.

Flag of Dominica

Please don't get Dominica confused with Dominican Republic. In Dominica they speak English, you can think of it as a tiny version of Jamaica with no bobsled team, as of yet! It'd be better if they break into the luge first, so it wouldn't look like they are copying Jamaica.

FYI, the Dominican Republic shares space with Haiti on the large island in between Cuba and Puerto Rico, closer to North America. The Dominican is a small island closer to South America and in between the islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique.

The banners of these two island paradises are similar in colours and if Dominica didn't have the parrot in the center it would look too much like the Jamaican flag and some other vexillologist probably wound have discovered this phenomenon. But nope, your looking and the real McCoy. I'm the first human to recognize this trait amongst nations.

Unofficial Flag of Dominica
It's very Jamaicanesque without the parrot charge

PS... since I called Dominica the little Jamaica it's only fair I call Jamaica the 'Over Sized Dominica'

Kosovo & Bosnia-Herzegovina; Europe + 2 & Allah

Flag of Kosovo
Once again like a smashing of atoms the smashing of a nation has created an uncanny similarity between two nations born out of the shattering of Yugoslavia and then Serbia!

Both of these nations have chosen a sea of blue and white stars, reflective of the European Union and a yellow blob or shape. Kosovo's flag is the organic-natural blot while Bosnia Herzegovina's flag is an artificial-abstract shape.

Most Vexillologists would probably rank Kosovo's flag below Bosnia Herzegovina and or want to change Kosovo's flag. Vexillological Orthodoxy has an extreme distaste for organic and natural shapes, animals, and letters.

Flag of Bosnia Herzegovina

Both Kosovo and Bosnia Herzegovina have a strong element of Islamic peoples, they are Europe's newest additions. The interesting political notion is that when the West supported the devolution of Kosovo from Serbia, this set into motion the political blow back of Russia's support for the devolution of Georgia via Abkazia and Ossetia.

Although Serbia and Russia are not the best of friends 100% of the time, they are connected by destiny and the shape of the flag which is the like the shape of their heart.

The USA only had only 30 years to deal just recently with Islamic Taxi drivers and a few Muslim professionals here and there. Serbia and Russia were ruled by Islamic Overlords for nearly 300 years and had their Christian Identity oppressed and tested. Can you imagine if the USA or UK had Islamic overlords to rule their country for 300 years and had to pay extra taxes because they are simply Christians? Long story short, when the Turks ruled over South Eastern Europe they were able to convert a good minority of white folk, namely many of the peoples who now make up nations of Bosnia Herzegovina & Kosovo.

After the creation of the Bosnia Herzegovina flag in European consciousness it naturally lead to the creation of another flag that 'balanced' the 'equation' by creating this uncanny symmetry of two nations that were once united with Serbia.

Chad & Romania; Ebony & Ivory

Flag of Romania in Europe

It is a union with the heart of Europe with the heart of Africa. Romania is a central state of Europe and the only Romance speaking nation that is mostly Eastern Orthodox, all the other 'Romance-language nations' remained loyal to Rome except Romania.

Romania also has a varied mix of nations and languages. Romania has been ruled by Christians, Muslims, Fascists and Communists, can you imagine if your nation had such a rich history?

Islam, Christianity, and the Traditional Spirit all beat a life force into the nation of Chad. The peoples are diverse with Arabs to Black Africans with many languages. Like Romania, Chad has been ruled by Muslims, Christians, and Fascists. During the Cold War she had to fight with extreme right wing Islamic-fascists from Libya. But with a little help from France, Chad stayed away from the far right.

Flag of Chad in Africa
Romania is a central nation of Europe crossing the four seasons line at 45 degrees north (in between the north pole and equator). She gets all four seasons and has all full bodied range of mountains.

Chad is a central nation of Africa crossing the Arab-Black African line. Deserts and Jungles sculpt the land with a heavy tone of sunshine, Chad too has mountains and plains as well.

Both nations have a history of being dominated by some other nation. They are ancient dancing partners caught in the cross roads of civilization. The richness of their heritage is manifold and they have only begun their new golden era.

Uganda & Zimbabwe

Flag of Uganda

Uganda & Zimbabwe have flags with similar stripes but in different orders. They also have birds on their flags. They are land locked nations in the rift valley and have been culturally connected to the UK thus English is widely spoken.


Flag of Zimbabwe

They are literally birds of a similar feather!