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

[<ignaciovicario@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel Markstedt <himasaram@xxxxxxxx> dijo:

> 
> On 2006-04-13, at 10.14, <ignaciovicario@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > 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.
> 
> The problem here is the actual naming of this civil war nation. IMHO 
> "Spanish-Republic" isn't satisfactory.
> 
> > 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...
> >
> >
> 
> The policy in Freeciv is to have the most recent flag of any 'modern' 
> nation - to avoid (most) political controversy.
> 
> It wouldn't hurt if we had support for user-selectable alternative 
> flags though. Not just because of this one; there are many other 
> nations who have sound historical flags. Imperial Russia, China 
> Republic (five stripes), Imperial Vietnam/South Vietnam, Pre-Revolution 
> French Kingdom etc etc. (AI players would always default to the 
> standard flag still.)
> 
> -Daniel
> 
> 

I've realized that "Spanish-Republic" is not right as a name: from a 
historical point of view, there have been two republican periods, and this is 
the second one, and from the game point of view, Spain can became a republic 
too. For the same reason "China Republic" should have a better name too. A 
better name could be "Spanish 2nd Republic".

Of course, it should not be a modern nation.  In fact, in the file 
spanish_second republic.ruleset it is 
stated: &#8220;groups=_("Medieval"),_("European")&#8221;