Confederate Vexillographic Institute

"The design and creation of the government, military and civil flags of the Confederate States shall be undertaken by a government organisation by the name of the "Confederate Vexillographic Institute", the Institute shall be headed by the office of the "Chief Vexillographer", who shall sit on the Confederate Cabinet."

- Part of Sec. 3. (8), Article I of the Constitution of the Confederate States of Earth

The Confederate Vexillographic Institute (C. V. I.) was a government organisation of the Confederate States of Earth which dealt with the designing, creation and production of government, military and civil flags of the Confederate States of Earth. Created by the Confederate Constitution, the C.V.I. was created to focus on the flags of the nation.

The institute was lead by the Chief Vexillographer, who had a seat on the Confederate Cabinet, the job of the Chief Vexillographer involved leading the institute, overseeing the fulfilment of government contracts, and displaying the various proposed flags to the Confederate Parliament, as well as making reports to the Parliament giving the institute's recommendation and selected flag. The Chief Vexillographer also organised national flag competitions, and narrowed down the numerous different entries to a dozen or so finalists.

To handle the selecting of a winning design during national flag competitions the institute formed the Committee on Flag and Seal, the purpose of this committee was to go through the numerous different entries for a national flag and seal, and then make a recommendation to the Parliament, other committees and branches of the institute dealt with other flags, the Committee on Flag and Seal only convened when the Confederate Parliament passed a motion to create a new national flag and/or a new national seal, as such it only convened three times, the first time in early 21 BBY, the second time in mid 21 BBY, and the final time in 4 ABY. The terms "First Convention", "Second Convention" and "Third Convention" were sometimes used to differentiate between the different meetings of the Committee.

The institute also sometimes produced its own flags to enter into competitions, and also produced flags, the institute and the institute's subsidiary factories produced flags for government, military and large business contracts, ordinary citizens and small businesses had to either produce their own flags or buy them from small flag making companies, who the institute had no right to interfere in the business of.