Users may pick and choose from a menu of these components to form a new flag, which they may then save to the site.
In addition, the project features a browsable history, through which users may look over past creations that have been titled and saved by the previous participants.
A limited language of visual symbols and the actions of thousands of visitors create an ongoing micro-drama about ownership, territory, control and personal identity in a post-national world.
Napier has described net.flag as "an emblem for the Internet as a new territory," [3] and is inspired in part by "Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong", the franchise nation depicted in Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
In Stephenson's world geographical borders are re-mapped into mobile, modular elements.