Thread:IDrowzee/@comment-93.8.56.128-20150315221717/@comment-1486125-20150317220102

Well, Polandball is a weird "meme". You can learn about its history on the article for it. Basically, it spread more like an organized religion than an internet meme that people just took up. It was started by a Briton, popularized by Russians, and now has tons of fans around the world, especially in Latin America and Oceania.

The general purpose of Polandball is ambiguous, but it is designed to make fun of countries in a natural sort of way; not necessarily hateful, not necessarily overly kind, but in a way that many can understand and enjoy.

The rules of countryballs are kind of loose, but still very important. There are a couple of rules you never break.

-You don't ever use circle-tool or line-tool to make a countryball

-You do not use copy/paste to make a countryball

-Kazakhstan's "countryball" is not a ball at all, but a brick.

-Similarly, Israel is drawn as a cube (specifically a cube, not a square). Technically, he is drawn as a "hypercube" (google it). Most other Jewish entities (like Tel Aviv) are drawn as cubes, also.

-Singapore (or "Tringapore" as he is often called) is drawn as a triangle with the icons in the red portion of the flag at the top, facing downward. Bermuda can be drawn as a triangle too, but this is more optional.

-and Nepal, along with all other countries with flags before him of this region, is a "dinosaur", drawn with angry eyes at the top or just one on the side, and with teeth in between the outward parts of the flag

-All other characters are drawn as balls. They are called "countryballs".

You can see some Wiki statistics at polandball.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Statistics. There's another link for more that I can get if you need them.

If you do not follow the rules, a couple of things will happen.

-You will probably be chastised by whatever Polandball community you are in. On Facebook, unless you are doinng something particularly annoying, it probably won't matter much, and you can even defend yourself. On Reddit, CockMule bans you instantaneously for that sort of thing.

-You will contribute to the overall degration of Polandball's proper fanbase.

(Reagan (talk) 22:01, March 17, 2015 (UTC))