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SchellingFlags

SchellingFlags

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"SchellingFlags" is a blockchain-based system for establishing the aesthetics and allegiances of flags in a decentralized way.Flags are an intersection and encryption of the political and the aesthetic, an assertion of identity and allegiance. They have proliferated off-chain for social phenomena such as nation-states and genders.Focal points, also known as "Schelling points", are perceptual phenomena in game theory. They are values or strategies that people will use because they seem obvious or attractive in a given context.Using the blockchain, SchellingFlags supports the construction and use of flags as ideological focal points for decentralized social co-ordination. Any individual can create and share a flag, and any individual can support it. The most popular flags are displayed by the SchellingFlags graphical interface to provide a map of its ideological landscape.