Polandball

Oh God, those things. They're pure cancer.

The addition of mouths and pupils completely screws up the unique palet of expressions which is a big part of Polandball's charm.

America's Addiction.◊

Unseen supermarket is the deadliest◊
Iran knows what women want◊
Going Bananas for Cocaine
Another minority, liberated by Russia◊
Eurovision Anniversary◊
Silence of the Imams◊
An old one: Poland and Axis:Japan

edited 5th Apr '15 2:03:00 PM by SecondKaitenhammer

Did "Eurovision Anniversary" completely mangle the French flag, or is it someone else ? (bottom-center-right)

thats underwater Germany.

Yeah, that's the flag of the French First Republic.

edited 5th Apr '15 4:16:20 PM by Quag15

You mean the (constitutional) Kingdom of France I think (which raises more questions than it answers).

The countryball I was looking at was Luxembourg actually. I forgot for a moment it's a French-speaking country.

The constitutional Kingdom of France's use of that flag was done mostly due to the pressure of the revolutionaries (with Lafayette and Mirabeau persuading the King to adopt the colours, in order to gather a political consensus). The Bourbons never really accepted those colours out of free will, since they went back to the white flag with yellow fleur-de-lis after Napoleon got kicked out and they were restored (from 1815 to 1830).

The flag became associated with the French First Republic more than it did with the (constitutional) kingdom due to said kingdom having been very short (less than a year, I think) and with the king and queen trying to escape to Varennes, while the Republic got a longer period of time and a more iconic use.

Twoo wuv◊
Picture day◊
An Adventure in Paleontology◊
France and 7 little Germans◊
Bitter Neighbors◊
Nicotinist◊
Russo-romantic◊
A Developed Country!◊
Ukraina's war◊
The Demonizing Stops and Resumes◊
The Pacific Theathe Beach◊

Russo romantic was great.

Balkan Spirit◊

Bonsai◊

Keeping the Peace◊

A Much-needed vacation◊.

And remember, Slovenia's the nice one.

I recognize Greenland but who's the other one? Nunavut?

Yes.

Some uncanonical individual country-balls:

- Saudi Arabia◊

- Byelarus◊

- Kievan Rus◊

- The Principality of Galicia–Volhynia◊

- Zaporozhyan Sich◊

- Ukrainian Hetmanate◊

- UPR◊

- UPA◊

- Russian Empire◊

- Austro-Hungarian Empire◊

- Roman Empire◊

edited 7th Apr '15 1:19:30 PM by Lyttenburgh

Mighty Hero◊
Multiple Standards◊
Just a wild guess◊
Shine a light◊ Grorious pun
Reparations◊

... Does Greece really still have unpayed reparations to claim from Germany?

The legal matter is complicated. Technically Germany paid them some money with the understatement that this would take care of it decades ago, though some past greece governments deemed this only a "down payment".

Another point is that Germany never technically surrendered to Greece. The surrender was to the Ally Powers, and by that argument Greece has no right to claim reparations as technically only "winners" of a war can claim them.

All in all, unless the German Government decides to simply pay, it would probably be quite a long struggle to clear it up in international courts.

That being said, the R word is pretty much used atm in a way more for attention/polemics/etc (on both sides) than actual dealing with it.

edited 8th Apr '15 12:00:43 PM by 3of4

it's kinda impossible to actually repay everyone that they took over at that time anyway.i believe the allies were the ones that actually helped the countries to recover?

really,even if they did pay,half of it would go to the corruption hole,a quarter of it to military equipment for useless showing off to Turkey,and the last bits to the debt.probably.

Ethnic Cleansers Anonymous◊. Kinda sad, really.

Start of Darkness?

There's Always Someone Worse off Than You◊

The Betraying of the Union◊

Compensating◊

Nah, that's more like Consolidation of Darkness.

Man, that second one is really sad.

And creepy, seeing that they offed him.

An animated version of Infidel Estonia. The animator has also made other Polandball animations if you check through his channel.

edited 16th Apr '15 6:27:31 AM by RandomAdventure

Can I get some background on that second one? I'm a fail on African flags.

The small guy who ultimately gets replaced by the African Union.

Counting from top to bottom: South Africa, Botswana and DR Congo on one side and Algeria, Libya and Lesotho on the other; then, Eritrea, Mauritania (the smiley one) and Zimbabwe.