Why is every country obsessed with having boring tricolor flags...

You do realize that those heraldic flags are a way for the ruling noblemen to say "This is my country, I own the people that live here"?
When the various empires and kingdoms of Europe got their necks broken people really didn't have any reasons to flagcuck themselves so they removed the heraldry.

Except not all fancy flags are heralding symbols. Just look at China's

I am pretty sure the dragon were in one way heraldic, unless I am wrong about that only the emperor was allowed to place as many claws on the dragon as the flag one has. Others weren't allowed to have that many claws.

>Just look at China's
While China doesn't have heraldry, the closest they got was the Imperial Dragon.

There's even laws for that shit.
>5 Clawed dragon = Emperor's dragon. To be used by him and his state apparatuses alone.
>4 Clawed dragon = Dragon of the Emperor's relatives. Highest Dragon rank allowable for foreign countries.
>3 Clawed dragon = Everyone else can use this.
Getting caught using a five clawed dragon for a personal seal or sigil was tantamount to treason.

Though that being said, Chinese really weren't into big on flags. Flags for them was merely a battlefield signalling device. The Emperor was both ruler and state/national symbol all to himself. Making the collor yellow and the five clawed dragon the closest shit they got as "national" symbols in a pre-national age.

youtube.com/watch?v=pnv5iKB2hl4
here's a ted ex talk about this shit.

it's a matter of flags being memorable and recognizable from a distance. people remember the japanese flag because it's just a red circle on a white background, nothing fancy. nepal has the right idea: make the flag a crazy shape and people will never forget it, and be able to recognize it as nepal's flag from a mile away!

think about it like this, if you had to draw one of those flags on the left completely from memory, would you be able to get every fucking detail of it down? every feather and the crest texturing and shit? probably not, so it's a lot quicker to put down some stripes and bold colors and call it a day.

>pick related: a really badly designed flag

Fuck off Leinster westbrit

>make the flag a crazy shape and people will never forget it, and be able to recognize it as nepal's flag from a mile away!
I never got why they are the only ones that get away with having that shape.

They are that autistic anime kid that thinks that he is special since he carries around some weird clothing and everyone else accepts it but it really is because none can care to bother as he is far to irrelevant for it.

I just imagine it has to result in a lot of extra work at sport events, when ppl make lists and stuff.

You know what, I am gonna post it anyway before this falls down into flameposting extreme
youtube.com/watch?v=63LRfLyR-JU