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This is a science fiction book by known author Fredrick Pohl. In one of the short stories of this book, flag politics play a central role. I've recently reread this 1988 book and in its chapter XIV flags are even more important than I recalled...

It's important to say that this book is made up of a dozen or so of almost unrelated short stories all tied by a common thread: The aproaching of a US space ship arriving from an almost failiure mission to Mars, where they happend to find the degenerate descent of a once highly civilized martian intelligent species.

In Chapter XIV, Charlie Stanford, an ad industry PR, just finished a successful campaign for the martian look-alike dols Mindy Mars and Max Mars, is freshly arrived in Iriadeska, a ficticious SE Asia country, probably inspired by Thayland or the Philipines. In the main river Choomli (wich flows though the capital Pnik) there's a lot of chupri (the local name for the East Indian Manatee, aka Dugong Dugong) wich also look just like the arriving martians, except for the later's long, stilz-like legs.
António Martins-Tuválkin 14 april 1997

Iriadeska (traditional)

by António Martins-Tuválkin

The traditional flag of Iriadeska consists of :

"three wide stripes green, white and violet with 27 stars representing the islands of