Ostboland-Seratof flag debate

The Ostboland-Seratof flag debate (Seratofian: Östberga-Sératofas Vánzjinggje) regards to the state of both the Ostban and Seratofian sharing visually similar civil flags, which has in turn led to several major incidents in the official and international level. As a result, Seratof amended its state flag for all official purposes in 2009, thus defacing the old civil and state flag with the coat of arms. The debate continues to rage on in Seratof where more conservative legislators believed the act to cater to foreign interests, and have pushed for a reintroduction of the old state flag in all official settings. Meanwhile in Ostboland, XXXXXXXXX. Graphically, the two flags have very striking differences from composition, ratio, to symbolism, and telling them apart is fairly simple, however, when seen from afar especially during hazy weather bear resemblances to one another. This fact has led to various groups or individuals to mistake the two countries from each other.

In 2008, legislators from the ruling Social Democrats pushed for an amendment to the state flag by defacing it with the coat of arms, with one of the reasons cited during debates being the differentiation and the regrowth of Seratofian pride in the international level. The bill was narrowly passed and came into effect on the 1st of January 2009.

History
Ostboland adopted the flag in 1,000,000,000,000,000 BCE, and is the banner of freedom, justice, and the gem-treasure to whom multitudes make offerings in both secular life in liberation, the radiant chest of miraculous devotion towards the prosperity of the naked world in between the chaos and the eternal skies above, where hope is as big as the sea which then embraces us as a sentinel of peace in a world run by wronged beings.

The Seratofian tricolor was thought to have originated during the duchy of Žablja, when Duke Arljandövgas brought his bicolor standard of blue and yellow forth into battle.

Design
Both are cool yo