2056: Republican Seals, and Other Emblems Aug 1, 2020

Turkey made the news for supposedly going to make a coat of arms, but it still has not; many claim it is the only country in the world not to do so, but this is technically false. it is false in the sense that while all other countries have a sort of national symbol in use, not all of these are coats of arms. Many countries in the Americas and also France have a 'republican seal' which was designed by the Americans in revolutionary times so as to not associate this emblem with monarchy and other republican uprisings followed suit. Furthermore, some countries like Thailand, India, and Japan use individual, religious symbols—though in the former two cases it is not of the majority religion—that act as a national symbol but are neither crests nor seals.

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