MexUSCan

It’s not about the result, it is about the process. And having every North American citizen – from Yucatán to Yukon – acknowledge and affirm the will of the majority by casting their ‘yes’ ballot…it’s critical. It’s not just ceremony, it is solidarity.

I love a flag, me. I’m usually pretty good with them but you forget how many countries there are. This keeps me on my toes. Albania a personal favourite. Just because it looks like some kind of two-headed, totalitarian avian overlord emblem from 1984. I know it might be stating the obvious, but trying to consolidate three country flags into one is hard. Especially if said countries’ combined population amasses to something in the region of 500 million.

But here we are, trying to mash Mexico, The USA and Canada together. Why? No, it’s nothing to do with the World Cup, rather the final installment of Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams. And what a ride it’s been. In the show, the entirety of North America is now a single mega-state (MexUSCan) and as you might expect, everything’s pretty much fucked. There is no democracy, rather a single candidate for the whole place. Again, Nineteen Eighty-Four vibes, with the Big Brother figure played by Departed, Source Code and Conjuring franchise’s own Vera Farmiga.

Back to the flag, then. It’s *sort of* visible in the show as a bit of a backdrop during a speech but in all honesty, it doesn’t look that convincing. It’s basically the Mexican flag with a maple leaf on the left, green panel and a single star on the right, red panel. I personally don’t think it would be that simple. I think you would have to take more into account than that. In the sense that I don’t think the Americans are likely to totally bin off their stars or their stripes and cow down to the Mexicans like that. So this is my version, drawing slightly on what I consider to be the most well known, mainstream attempt to combine multiple cultures and languages together – the South Africa flag.

So three triangular panels each, with the Americans taking up too much space. Like they do. I’ve given them four stripes to represent their Mount Rushmore lads and thirteen stars to hark back to their 1777 version. Dangerously close to the Confederate, but I figure a lot of them would probs be kind of into that. The Canadians are just generally more agreeable all round so they keep their maple leaf but on a red background and have done with it. And then the Mexicans…well, they’ll have to compromise the most. Kind of like Wales in the Union Flag. Their eagle eating a snake is there, but in silhouette form. Otherwise it’s just mental complicated.

And that’s your lot. For this write up and the series. As a final note, there’s an organisation already called Mexuscan. They deliver stuff. Funny old world.