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Wealth of Nations is a boardgame published in 2008 by Tablestar Games. It is about
economic negotiation, territory building, and industry / manufacturing,
working through tile placement, trading commodity, speculation, and area
control. (More info here.)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 June 2008
In _Wealth of Nations_ each of the 4, 5, or 6 players is identified on the board by flag shaped tokens. Instead of the usual solid color approach, (six) distinctive designs were devised; these are distributed as wavy-deformed rectangles, intended to be fitted to a small stick: see here. (But some players seem to prefer them as tents: see here and here.
The chosen designs are remarkably flag-like, and even vexillographically interesting (unlike other such designs); I'm almost sure that the game art designer attempted to come up with something flaggish and match of a real-world flag is coincidental.
There are 6×6×3=108 flag tokens in each game box. I do not own this game
and never played it, so I'm not sure, but seems to me that these designs
are purely semaphoric, and no pre-composed set of special abilities of
rules apply to any of them. Therefore, I can only refer to them by
summary description:
António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 June 2008
![[White flag with equal green cross throughout]](../images/f/fic@wonx.gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 June 2008
White flag with equal green cross throughout. (This reminds us of a South
African navy or Portuguese naval rank flag, but
almost surely not in the mind of the designer; I'd bet this comes from
picking England and changing the cross color around.)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 June 2008
![[Green flag with centered yellow disc]](../images/f/fic@wond.gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 June 2008
Green flag with centered yellow disc.
(Japan, Bangladesh and Palau may
have popped up from a world flags chart when this design was picked.)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 June 2008
![[White flag with purple (?) hoist triangle throughout]](../images/f/fic@wont.gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 June 2008
White flag with purple (?) hoist triangle throughout. (Possibly thought
as an absolute original, as it is a rare pattern for national flags.)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 June 2008
![[Red flag with black five-pointed star on the upper hoist]](../images/f/fic@wons.gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 June 2008
Red flag with black five-pointed star on the upper hoist. (Surely
inspired in Soviet / Communist and Anarchist flag motifs.)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 June 2008
![[Horizontal tricolor of red, white, and orange (or golden yellow)]](../images/f/fic@wonh.gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 June 2008
Horizontal tricolor of red, white, and orange (or golden yellow). (So
many national flags are horizontal tricolors that this design could not
be missing; I detect no further obvious influence, though — it matching a
number of less known flags notwithstanding.)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 June 2008
![[Vertical tricolor of blue, white, and purple]](../images/f/fic@wonv.gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 June 2008
Vertical tricolor of blue, white, and purple. (So many national flags are
vertical tricolors that this design could not be missing; perhaps the
seminal role of France influenced the blue hoist panel; purple,
on the other hand, is one of those colors that supposedly nobody uses in
"real flags".)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 June 2008
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