WotRS: Chinese Flags

Flags of the factions in China.

The flag on the bottom is that of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, aka the Taiping Dynasty of China, which follows Christianity rather than Buhhdism or traditional Chinese religions. To represent this, they've adopted the Nordic Cross (although the Yongheng Emperor and his loyal followers would probably go on for ages that the flag originated in China, and the full story of how the Huoxiu Emperor received the flag from God himself when he revealed to the Emperor that he was his father). Also on the flag is the Chinese Dragon in the Canton (ha, puns), and below that is 4 red squares and the name of the current emperor, the Yongheng Emperor. The top 2 red squares represents the "Second Dynasty of God" (the first being Jesus), and the bottom represent the second member of this Dynasty of God.

The flag on the top is the namesake flag of the Blue Banner Rebellion. Meant to appear more traditional, as if actually created by Chinese (which the THK flag clearly isn't, at least to them). The Rebellion itself is made of many factions with differing ideologies, united by only one thing: That those Taiping guys are really annoying, and should be removed. Many "Blue Bannermen" are in favor of a Republic, others for a Monarchy under a new dynasty, others for a Technocracy. Most are against the Christocracy associated with the Taipings, but some are actually in favor of it, just seeing the Taipings as stupid, decadent, and incompetent. Many differ on foreign policy, whether or not to get involved in the War of the Russian Succession, and for which side (Russia, after all, does look pretty vulnerable, but the Russian Republic also shares many of the value held by many of the Blue Bannermen. Perhaps it would be better to go after French-backed Vietnam and Philippines? Or just stay out of the war altogether so as to recollect themselves after this surely bloody civil war?)