Flag of the United Commonwealth

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Flag of the United Commonwealth
Flag of the United Commonwealth
Use National flag Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag
Proportion 128:77
Adopted July 4, 1866
Design Five horizontal stripes of red, white, blue, white, and red, the red stripes are slightly larger than the others and the blue stripe is slightly smaller than the others, with nine white stars evenly distributed horizontally across the center blue stripe
Designed by Unknown

The flag of the United Commonwealth is a tricolor flag consisting of five similarly sized horizontal stripes: two red (one on top and one on bottom), one blue (in the center), and two white (in between the red and blue stripes). The proportions of the flag is 128:77. It has been the national flag of the United Commonwealth continuously since 1866 during the War of Contingency when it replaced the flag of the former United States.

The flag is honored and celebrated on Flag Day, which is held every July 4 of the year. It celebrates the adoption of the current flag and pays homage to the former United States, whose flag is the basis and symbolic inspiration of the current flag's design. It was adopted during the War of Contingency, a transcontinental conflict in North America which occurred shortly after the end of the American Civil War, the assassination of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln, and subsequent attempted coup d'état against the American government. Several U.S. states in the American Northeast and Midwest seceded unilaterally from the Union, and the remnant United States government was reorganized as the United Commonwealth as its immediate successor. The nine stars of the flag represent the nine U.S. states which remained "faithful" to the Union during both the American Civil War and the War of Contingency: Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

During Federalist rule, the flag became heavily associated with the party and its goals for American reunification. It was commonly paired with the flag of the old Republic to emphasize the United Commonwealth's desire to restore and expand the United States across the North American mainland. Following the Continental Revolutionary War, the victorious Continentalists re-appropriated the flag of their enemy and linked the flag's symbolism to the party's ideology: Continentalist–Landonism. Since then, several other official flags have been used to represent the United Commonwealth's ruling party, government, institutions, and unions.

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Flags of the Continental Republics

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