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The '''Flag of the Kingdom of Tavaris''', known as the "National Banner" or sometimes as the "Auspicious Banner," is the national flag of [[Tavaris]]. It uses black and white, which are the traditional colors of Line Nuvo, the clan that had been raised to the kingship upon the unification of Tavaris. King Utor I, in one of his first acts of office, designed the flag and established it as the "national banner." A deeply ritualistic man, he designed it under the traditional Tavari principles that he would later have codified into the [[Tavaris#Ancestral veneration|''Tavat Avati'']]. The combination of black and white is said to bring good luck, and Utor counter-charged his family arms with four-pointed star symbols of opposing colors, in order to make the flag, in his own words, "doubly auspicious." The four-pointed star was a design common among many Tavari chiefdoms at the time and had long been held as a symbol representing the Tavari people as a whole. The star is still commonly used for this purpose today by the government as well as the public. In 1793, the definition of the flag was included in the Instruments of Governance, the country's new constitution. In 1997, an amendment to the Instruments added a clause allowing for the flag to be amended by referendum of the people, but did not change the design of the flag itself. No referendum allowed under the amendment has ever occurred.
The ratio of the National Banner's height to its width is 13:24, a ratio that has a traditional and cultural significance in Tavari society. Historically, when Tavari chiefs ever gathered to make decisions—in which capacity they functioned as the de facto Tavari legislature from the country's establishment until the promulgation of the Instruments of Governance—a vote had to gain the approval of 13 out of every 24 chiefs present. This works out to slightly more than a simple majority, about 54%. The modern Tavari legislature is no longer required to use this majority, which is today called the "Tavari majority" to contrast it with a simple majority, but it still sees use elsewhere in society such as in the legislative bodies of cities whose royal charters were issued prior to the 19th century, by private societies and clubs, and by corporations, where it is the most common majority required for shareholders to amend corporate bylaws.
===Naval Ensign===
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The Native Rodokan Flag was adopted by the [[Rodoka|Rodokan Native Tribal Administration]] (RNTA) in 1992, when it assumed the role of the former Native Rodokan tribes in governing the Native Rodokan Reserve. The flag was flown from 1540 to 1634 by the High Chiefs of Rodoka and was used alongside the Tavari flag as a Rodokan flag in talks with Rodokan officials as early as 1622. During the [[Meagharia|Tavari-Milofite War]] in the early 18th century, Native Rodokan ships flew the flag as a naval ensign; today, the ships operated by the RNTA fly the Tavari Merchant Mariner Flag.
In 2020, the same bill that allowed for the Rodokan provincehood referendum declared that the Native Rodokan flag was "a national flag of Tavaris," recognizing it therefore as a national symbol, but the bill did not give the flag equal status with the national flag as defined in the Instruments of Governance. Therefore, Tavari government property flies the national flag, not the Native Rodokan flag. However, since 2021 the Royal Tavari Armed Forces has allowed the families of deceased Native Rodokan servicemembers to have their loved one's coffin draped in a Native Rodokan flag, and municipal government buildings in Lantaž and Sinajärv fly the flag in addition to the national flag.
[[Category:The Acronisphere]] [[Category:National Flags]]
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