Hoorah for may day.
New ones are nice (although I'm a little bewildered by what would separate totalitarianism and fascism except semantics?
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Re. federalism: The EU is an okay example, but the Iroquois were the ones who came up with the idea of a nation of nations, so Iroquois symbolism with regards to the government would serve a bit more justice to the subject (besides, we persnickety Westerners get all the screen time on these sorts of things as is!)
Possible things include the 'long house' idea -- the Seneca in the west being one 'door' of the long house they metaphorically lived in, the Mohawk in the east being the other; then there's the bundle of arrows idea -- the way the legend goes (obviously there's little telling if this is true or not, but the same goes for most of what happened before the scientific revolution), Hiawatha made a point about the strength of union with seven arrows. One he broke swiftly with his bare hands, but six bound together were impossible to break so easily. Maybe one broken arrow and six bound by string or something?
The Theocracy symbol is particularly excellent, IMO, because it incorporates symbolism that's concretely tied to one culture (and hey, what isn't? Even light from the sky wouldn't work, being as how the Navajo figured we came from the ground), but at the same time emblematic of what theocracies in general do.
Stalinism is... okay? I've always been somewhat disappointed by the over-profusion of Soviet symbolism for communist things. Why this is so is pretty obvious, but it smacks of determinism. A more industrialized country fallen into dire straits probably wouldn't have gone for a hammer and sickle, being as how those were symbols of industry for the backwoods, of which Russia mostly consisted at that time. I'd imagine that you'd end up with a cross between the NRA logo (thunderbolts and saw) and the old Angolan flag (weapon and gear tread).
Monarchy is all good.
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Fine Govt icons!
