Mason-Dixon Line Heritage Flag for 39 Degrees 43 Minutes North

Nearly 100 years before the outbreak of the US Civil War, a border survey between Maryland and Pennsylvania would echo across time.  This echo would serve as the semi-official demarcation between the North and South.

Little did Mr. Mason, Chuck and Mr. Dixon, Jerry know that this border established under King George III would serve as a quasi-cultural border of men and women yet to be born a century later.  These names from Oakridge-Lynch and Cockfield, England would become warped with a totally different connotation, beyond their wildest expectations.  History has a way of doing that with new ideas, a moment here, an exaggeration there.  Given enough time, it becomes established, and may even become something completely new.

It was nearly 150 years ago that the war between the US States was reaching its climactic end, so in honor of this closing act, "The Mason-Dixon Line Heritage Flag".  The Mason-Dixon flag is a mixture of a heritage and geographic flag.  Its design elements should be obvious, as a mash up of Union and Rebel flags.  The five stars on the quarters of blue represent the modern free soil states that cross the extended Mason-Dixon line: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California.  The four stars along the blue diagonal represent the four states that allowed for the wicked right of a person to own another person: Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia.  Finally the central star represents the first state of the English Colonies that would be broken in half: Virginia. Until 1863 Virgina crossed the extended Mason-Dixon line.  

Thus any state mentioned above, has legal rights to fly this flag at 39 Degrees 43 Minutes North, that's 15 in all. 
 

UN flag from Idiocracy 2006

In the "Time Masheen" ride in Idiocracy an inaccurate revisionist view of the U.N., pronounced uun, has several flags in front of the building.  History has become so distorted in this future that people actually think dinosaurs and people lived simultaneously.

Several national flags can be seen in front of the UN, including a backwards Pakistan, upside down Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, South Africa, Spain, Panama, Palau, and the United States.  However at least six flags are wrongly placed that represent the powerful companies that dominate the future in the 26th century, including Carl's Jr.

Congress Flag Uniforms from Idiocracy

In the year 2505 members of US congress in the "House of Representin" can be easily identified by the state flags on the backs of their uniforms.  Apparently in the year 2505 Georgia reverted to 1956 design that featured the Confederate battle flag.  When this film was created in 2005, Georgia had already discarded use of this flag.  Nonetheless, it is good idea that congress should wear a uniform in addition to a name tag, and stripes to show how long they have been in office.


  

Courtroom Flags in Idiocracy 2006

 Idiocracy is a special mix of sci-fi, comedy, and satire.  A cryogenic experiment goes horribly wrong and accidentally sends a man from 2005 into the year 2505.  It's a mix of live action Futurama meets Beavis and Butthead. 

In this future, natural selection has started to favor the less than civil of society, fast food consumer culture and Jerry Springer types. Subsequently a man with average intelligence from 2005 is seen as pompous, effeminate, and the most intelligent person on the planet.

Notice the close up of courtroom flags that expound on certain consumer products. 

US Flag in Idiocracy - 2006

 The Distopian future is a popular genre these days, but before anyone got hungry for kids killing kids and E-Walls, there was Idiocracy.  Not so serious, Idiocracy was more a satire on the state of the human condition. 

An average Joe is sent 500 years into the future to the year 2505, where less than intelligent people have overpopulated the planet; natural selection has favored those who breed the fastest, and intelligence is no longer a factor.


The flag of the United States in the 26th Century has eleven stripes, sort of.  The six red stripes are words and logos of corporations dashed with some patriotic sayings.  The canton consists of 25 yellow stars of the Carl's Jr. logo design.

90 Degrees West Longitude Flag

The 90 Degrees West flag is composed of the colours red, blue, and white.  It can be flown anywhere along the 90th Degree of Western Longitude.  Thus the nations of Canada, USA, Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador can fly this flag, as can Chile since this meridian passes though the Galapagos along the equator.

The specific US states that cross the 90th Western Line of Longitude include: Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  Additionally the 90th West passes directly though Memphis, Tennessee and New Orleans, Louisiana, and the boot heel of Missouri. 

90 Degrees East Longitude Flag

The 90 Degrees East flag is another geographic flag.  It can be flown anywhere along the longitude of 90 Degrees East from Central Russia, Eastern China, Bhutan, the eastern wing of India, and Bangladesh. 

The squares represent the mathematical symbols for a 90 degree angle.  It is at this angle that the advanced study of triangles "Trig" has opened a gateway to the heavens.

The flag is composed of the colours: green, red, yellow, and black.