Caveballs

There are 2 ways cueballs (sometimes called poolballs or caveball) can be interpreted and used. The first method is the one covered by the /r/polandball staff, which must be applied inside the subreddit. The alternative usage is also seen outside of /r/polandball.

Usage on /r/polandball
On their About page, the /r/polandball mods have already explained the usage of these kinds of balls. The rules on using them state:

"Cueballs can be used for people or tribes that aren't or weren't organised as a nation in a modern sense. For example in historic comics where European explorers encountered indigenious people. The cueball colors describe the respective skin colors. Actually only the black and the brown one are used and sometimes the green ball for aliens."

- /r/polandball mods

They are inspired by real life cueballs. Officially they are never designated as "caveballs". This, however, is only true for /r/polandball, and other variants have appeared outside of the subreddit as well.

List of Cueballs

 * 1ball - Used for Eastern Asian ambiguities. Often accompanied by a rice picker hat and slanty eyes.
 * 2ball - Used for Early European ambiguities.
 * 3ball - Used for Native American ambiguities. Often accompanied by a feather band.
 * 4ball - Used for Prehistoric ambiguities.
 * 5ball - Used for Native Australian ambiguities. (prior to the adoption of the official flag).
 * 6ball - Used for Alien ambiguities. Often given a straneg language and black eyes.
 * 7ball - Used for Native Pacific Islands ambiguities. Often accompanied by slanty eyes. Sometimes is the substitute of 3ball.
 * 8ball - Used for African ambiguities.


 * Blankball - The white ball is (rarely) used for European ambiguities.

Alternative use
Caveballs or Poolballs are - more often - just used as generic countryballs representing ancient civilizations (before flags existed) or large ethnic groups that have spread in more than one country. In this alternative way, all first 8 cueballs are used.

The 8-ball which represents tribal Africans is the most common example, though other can be seen infrequently. These are the ancestors of all countryballs today, the caveballs. The chart to the right shows the kinds of - unofficial - Caveballs.

The Caveball "0"


This caveball is use to other Places (India etc.) It was created in the 2014 and isn't yet used in a polandball story...