[Freeciv-Dev] Re: New nation Spanish second Republic

[<ignaciovicario@xxxxxxxxxx>]

miguel.farah@xxxxxxxxx dijo:

> On 4/10/06, ignaciovicario@xxxxxxxxxx <ignaciovicario@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Dear developers,
> >
> > I have uploaded to ftp://upload.freeciv.org/pub/freeciv/incoming/ a new
> > nation. It is a file called spanish_second_republic.tar.gz I have made 
it
> > from 2.1.0-beta1 version of the game.
> >
> > It is a variant made from the Spanish nation, but with the flag and the
> > rulers of the Spanish 2nd Republic (1931-1939).
> 
> I'm not sure if it's a good idea to have separate nations rulesets for
> what's the same country, with a different government. Should there be,
> say, a French kingdom ruleset, a French Empire ruleset, a French Fifth
> Republic (to say nothing of the previous four)? Also, it kinda looks
> odd to have a Spanish Republic *kingdom*.
> 
> That said, Manuel Azaña *should* be added to the leader list in the
> spanish.ruleset file.
> 

It could look extrange the same country with tho flags, but that is 
something true from the historical point of view: since 1936 till 1939, 
there were two nations with two rulers and two flags who claimed to be 
Spain. In the game, there is a possibility of a civil war, and the most 
realistic civil war from an historical point of view, is the civil war 
betwen the Spanish second republic and the militar sublevation of Franco. 

Anyway, the game has both Roma and Italy, and it sounds more extrange the 
possibility of a fight betwen a modern state like USA against an ancient one 
like Sumerian.

The reason for making the nation Spanish_second_republic is that in Spain 
some people, mainly left-wingers, do not feel comfortable with the 
red-yellow flag on everywhere in the map. That is because of the 40 years of  
government of the extreme right-wing dictator Franco, who defeated the 
second republic. Of course, the red-yellow flag is now fine from both legal 
and democratic points of view, but for some people it evocates extreme 
right-wing connotations. It is a matter of taste. ¿Do you think that germans 
would feel well having the svastic flag in the map? The red-yellow flag was 
imposed by the military sublevation of Franco, the Spanish equivalent to 
Mussolili or Hitler. Regardless of its legal and democratic legitimity 
nowadays, some people do not feel well watching such a flag all over the 
map. That is the reason of making a new nation ruleset. Anyway, you are the 
developers...