When you’re a bored flag enthusiast and have a penchant for posing historical hypotheticals, you sometimes find yourself creating fictional flags for fictional countries, apparently.
Reddit user shy5 created and shared this flag in the vexillology (that’s the study of flags, duh) subreddit with the subject line “If Hong Kong belonged to Taiwan: Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the Republic of Taiwan”.
Another Redditor helpfully suggested that shy5 remove the stars, since they represent China. Here’s the result:
Hopefully neither Chinese netizens nor the Chinese government will see this creation, as it would surely get them royally pissed off. (We can already imagine the headlines: “Unpatriotic colonial dogs insult motherland”.)
