8th Culture Competitions



The 8th Culture Competitions was the eighth biannual design event held in The Leftist Assembly, hosted by Minister of Information Soviet Catgirls from 18 to 30 May 2021. The event was held to select a new regional arthropod, bird, coat of arms, flora, poem, and motto.

The submissions stage was held from 18 to 25 May, followed by the voting stage from 25 to 30 May.

Voter eligibility
To be eligible to vote, a nation must be an electoral citizen, which requires that individual to reside in The Leftist Assembly with their World Assembly nation (World Assembly citizen), or to have their World Assembly nation be registered in an affiliated anti-fascist military (Military Voting citizen) or an allied NSLeft region (dual citizen).

Counting
The single transferable voting (STV) system is used, whereby voters rank the options in order of their preference. The primary vote of each option is then tallied, and the option with the least votes is eliminated and their votes preferentially distributed in a repeated process until one option achieves a majority.

Arthropod
The submissions can be found here: https://imgur.com/a/iCdpRfd

The following were the results of the vote:

Western honeybee was elected as the regional arthropod in the third round, decided on first preferences as a tiebreaker.

Bird
The submissions can be found here: https://imgur.com/a/M3gNYI6

The following were the results of the vote:

Phoenix was elected as the regional bird in the first round with a majority.

Coat of arms
The submissions can be found here: https://imgur.com/a/zgrtkQg

The following were the results of the vote:

The Great Seal of The Leftist Assembly was re-elected as the regional coat-of-arms in the first round, with preference given to the status quo due to a tie.

Fish
The submissions can be found here: https://imgur.com/a/UVbJgGG

The following were the results of the vote:

New Samon was elected as the regional fish in the first round with a majority.

Flora
The submissions can be found here: https://imgur.com/a/7ucjAIe

The following were the results of the vote:

Rose was re-elected as the regional flora in the fourth round with a majority.

Poem
The submissions were as follows:
 * 1) Communism’s cool, Let's abolish capital, Then get some ice cream (Podria)

The following were the results of the vote:

Communism's cool was elected as the regional poem in the first round with a majority.

Motto
The submissions were as follows:
 * 1) Unity in diversity (current)
 * 2) For the people's sovereignty / Nam vulgaris ius iudiciumque (Los Estados Socialistas del Cono Sur)
 * 3) To build the union is to build the revolution (Asturies-Llion)
 * 4) Unity and harmony through international cooperation (Jyapin)

The following were the results of the vote:

Unity in diversity was re-elected as the regional motto in the first round with a majority.