u/According-Value-6227

Context

This meme is for Project Vigilant / P.V, an unofficially named, predominately fan-fiction and partially original world-building project that I have been working on at a “snails pace” since 2018 with no envisioned completion date. The project is an attempt at merging elements from no more than 125 of my favorite I.P’s and an assortment of original work in the genres of sci-fi, fantasy and alternate-history into a singular “patchwork universe” that I refer to as the Project Vigilant Universe or P.V.U for short.

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Canam is an alternate version of the USA.

At it's height, Canam's territory encompasses most of what would be the USA, the Baja California Peninsula, all of what would be Canada, Greenland, Iceland and Hawaii, all of which are divided into 54 states and several outlying territories. As of 2016, Canam had a population of over 502 Million people.

Canam's name is not a portmanteau between America and Canada ( as one might expect ), rather it is a derivative of a fictional East Coast Native American word for "freedom" and it was adopted by the 13 colonies when they declared their independence from Britain in 1776. Canam's full name is The Canam Republic.

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Like the real USA, Canam fell victim to a "Great Depression" between 1929 and 1939 and in 1932, the people of Canam elected Franklin D. Roosevelt to function as the nation's great anti-depressant.

The PVU's Great Depression was slightly worse than the real GD and this, combined with other factors incentivized FDR and his administration to seek out some unorthodox methods of ending Canam's economic woes.

In 1939, the U.S Government secretly commissioned a coven of 5 witches to develop an arcane solution to the G.D. After a few months of work, the witches developed a "curse" which would guarantee Canam an indefinite period of economic prosperity by turning one of the nation's major population centers into a "misfortune sponge".

The population center chosen to serve as the sacrificial lamb was Gotham City ( From D.C/Batman ). The PVU's version of Gotham is located on a group of 5 islands in the middle of the Delaware Bay.

The curse, which would become known as "The Invisible Hand" went into effect on Halloween of 1939 and from that point forward, Canam would experience 80+ years of un-interrupted economic prosperity wherein quality of life in every part of the country except Gotham ranged from being decent to fantastic.

The curse did suffer a temporary failure between 1978 and 1979 as a result of Gotham absorbing too much misfortune and suffering a 391-day long civil collapse but this was rectified.

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The Invisible Hand is why Gotham is so terrible and why Gothamites with rainforest restoring powers would rather throw hands with Batman instead of doing ecological restoration work. The curse also gives the whole of Canam an impossibly prosperous and functional economy and anyone who doesn't know about the curse and attempts to research Canam's economy would quickly realize that nothing about the nation's economic system makes any sense.

In order to keep the truth of it's success under wraps, the government of Canam has spent it's post-WWII years evolving into an authoritarian and borderline-fascist oligarchy that purposefully keeps the bulk of the population economically illiterate whilst prioritizing the interests of corporations whose success is enabled purely by the Invisible Hand.

Should The Invisible Hand suffer a second and permanent failure, Canam will experience an economic collapse so violent that new words will need to be created to describe the absolute horror that everyone will be forced to deal with.

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My mother and father are both evangelical Christians, divorced since 2008 as a result of my father cheating on my mother with multiple other women at the same time.

My father is in the deepest fathoms of the MAGA cult. My mother on the other hand votes Democrat and is fiscally liberal but socially conservative.

I don't talk to my dad anymore and for various reasons, I still live with my mother despite being a whopping 25 years old.

My parents are exhausting to be around and I don't really like them that much.

I'm not sure if this belongs here or not because it's not really a flag but rather an insignia. As far as I know, there isn't a subreddit for logos, symbols or insignia's in dreams so this place seems to be an acceptable alternative.

It took me awhile to make this and while doing so, I forgot what exactly happened in the dream but I'm confident that this is supposed to be the Chudjak face in a geometric style similar to the Autobot and Decepticon insignia's. I was a little more complex in my dream and I tried to recreate it to the best of my abilities.

It's stupid, I know.