/r/polandball Official Tutorial

The Official Polandball tutorials (manual of style) are a set of official documents released on /r/polandball, that describe how a polandball comic should be written, and what should be done and not done. Additionally, there is also a Joke Life Preserve poll once in a while, which allows users to vote on things they are tired of seeing in Polandball comics, and the things with the most votes will be temporarily banned from using in any comic. The purpose of the JLP polls are to preserve the comedic value of certain polandball in-jokes and prevent them from being forced and overused. A set of subjects have also been Deported to Syberia, meaning their usage is permanently prohibited. The list of items that are included in this list are :


 * Classic jokes
 * Template comics
 * Turning existing comics into polandball comics (plotless adaptations of existing stories, with characters replaced with countryballs)
 * Internal affairs of US states and territories (allowed in /r/stateball)

The current Joke Life Preserve poll includes the following things:


 * 1) "Hue" as the punchline
 * 2) The Anschluss Joke
 * 3) Plotless adaptations of books, movies, and music (see also point 3 above)
 * 4) MURICA FUCK YEAH/Freedom/"liberate commies" as the punchline

Overview and list of rules
The tutorial describes what to do and what not to do.

It prohibits the following:


 * Adding pupils
 * Adding arms and other limbs
 * Ears, mouths, pupils, hair, mimic wrinkles, bears, eyelashes and moustaches.
 * Adding black lines between color borders on flags
 * Drawing a countryball in a shape other than round, unless it is an exception like Reichtangle, Tringapore, Kazakhstan, Nepal or Ohio.
 * Usage of circle and line tools
 * Drawing the poland flag correctly (it must ALWAYS be upside down)
 * Copying and pasting pictures of the internet (everything must be mouse-drawn)
 * Drawing one panel comics with no plot, storyline or point
 * Using le
 * Using rage faces like the trollface or forever alone guy as countryballs
 * Using shibe/doge
 * Using fonts like Comic Sans, Curlz or Papyrus
 * Using advanced image manipulation tools

Countries with permanent attributes and shapes

 * UKBall must always have a top hat and monocle
 * Israel must be a cube
 * Nepal must be shaped like the actual flag
 * Ohio must also be shaped like the actual flag
 * USAball always wears sunglasses
 * Kazakhstan is a brick
 * Tringapore is a triangle
 * Reichtangle (which represents the North German Confederation, the German Empire, the beginning of the Weimar Republic and the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1935) is as the name says a rectangle with small, white dots as eyes.
 * The 8-ball can be used to represent native African tribes
 * Whereas the 7-ball represents native Americans

In order to decourage breaking the rules, the worst submissions they have received are put to shame on a page section called "The Pillory of No-Gos" to show what NOT to do.

Phrasing
From the document:

Countries never refer to each other as "balls" (e.g. polandball, usaball, russiaball, germanyball). Country names only.

Grammar and spelling is supposed to be incorrect for everyone but Anglophones. Native English-speaking countries speak perfectly, and all other countries speak "Engrish".

This Broken-English is all about broken grammar rather than broken spelling (i.e. no Dolan spelling), and incorporates bits of each country's native lnguage when it speaks. Lurk around to get a feel of the language.

Comic Sans is absolutely not allowed. Same for any comic script or goofy font like "Curlz" or "Joker".

Here are some good and bad examples of how to do polandball