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I'm watching the last season of "Monk" now; the episode "Mr. Monk Falls in Love"
concerns a fictional Eastern European country called "Zamania." The flag is
clearly based on Croatia's, but the checkers are blue and white, the "zoo" is
green and blue, and the stripes are green-white-blue. Below the shield is a
scroll with a date- 1565, I think.
And to make things more odd, the family crest of one Zamanian includes the
Ukrainian arms.
Nathan Lamm, 11 August 2009
Gee - too obviously - I believe that this would be punishable by law
in Croatia, and I believe that such an obvious disfiguration of the
Croatian national symbols, Croatian embassy in US should have at least
protested! Even though US have very liberal laws regarding what you
can do with a flag of your choice, I believe that the international
diplomatic conventions, in theory at least, provide protection over
such desecration of foreign national flags. Not that I think anyone
would do much about it...
BTW - since the tricolour and COA are such clear plagiarism of the
Croatian national flag (probably a vector drawing for the printing of
the Croatian flag was simply recoloured), I was wandering weather the
scroll and corn ears are also taken readily from some easily
obtainable vector graphic COA - vaguely similar to the wreath from the
Socialist Yugoslavia COA, I guess it would have been too much work for
the "designer" to change it just so much...
The year is 1522, by the way...
See the bottom of the page
Oh, yes, and the fictious country is called Zemenia
Well, in any case, I believe it is a shape on the series producer to
have hired such an uninventive crew that can not even design a mock up
country flag properly!
And, I did not realise, Zemenia is an actual personal name, two
Fraziers and one McGregor in US have it, according to this site
Željko Heimer, 11 August 2009
Željko: To make matters worse, the district of San Francisco called
"Little Zemenia" seemed to have a gate with the coat of arms of the
country (as on the flag) mounted on it. I've never heard of a
non-government building or quarter with national CoA.
Nathan Lamm, 11 August 2009
