The CountryBall Rules

PolandBall is the massively successful geopolitical comic that portrays different countries as balls. While the barrier to entry is low, there are many different rules one must keep in mind when doodling these balls. In this episode, I will explain many of these rules!

Episode 7: The CountryBall Rules

Featuring:
Icee Ulysses Panker

[realdescubre]

I still can't figure out why Mr. Spherical got away with putting mouths and eyebrows to countryballs

[the_greyster]

Let's not also forget that we never, and I mean NEVER, affiliate with Countryhumans.

[joaonerdgamer]

Welcome to the polandball fandom!
Here we have:
-Funny comics
-talented animators
-stereotypical jokes
What we don't have:
-indonesia

[microwave]

"I see these balls as highly valuable and squishy" could have phrased that better 🤭

[LocalDeltaruneFan]

I actually questioned why polandball is upside-down. It turns out poland is is actually considered the "upside-down country" and a mistake in the first countryballs comic.

[TheOldVoid]

Wow, this is well made for such a small content creator. Well done, you're gonna make it far. Everyone who's into countryballs/polandball should watch this video. Cheers!

[malpikacu]

03:47 i think it would have been great to include that austria-hungary always has the mini flags as sunglasses xd

[AnIrishShenanigans]

I love when people see the true-ness of MS Paint

[madzokeen]

Rule 1: NO CIRCLE TOOL
Me who struggles to draw something that even resembles a circle: dang that’s crazy

[AverytheCubanAmerican]

The accordion cover of the Polish national anthem at the beginning is a nice touch! Mazurek Dąbrowskiego is such an uplifting masterpiece. The original lyrics were written by Józef Wybicki in Reggio Emilia, Italy in July 1797, two years after the Third Partition of Poland erased the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the map. Its initial purpose was to raise the morale of Jan Henryk Dąbrowski's Polish Legions that served with Napoleon Bonaparte in the Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars. That the idea of Poland had not disappeared as long as the Poles had hope and fought in its name, and knowing their history of empires dividing and taking over their land, it's a surprise to nobody just how proud and resilient they are!

The chorus and subsequent stanzas include heart-lifting examples of military heroes like Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, Napoleon, Stefan Czarniecki and Tadeusz Kościuszko. Before he formed the Polish Legions, Dąbrowski was a commander in the failed 1794 Kościuszko Uprising against the Russian Empire. After the Third Partition in 1795, he came to Paris to seek French aid in re-establishing Polish independence and thus he started the formation of the Polish Legions. The anthem even inspired Hej, Sloveni which became the anthem of Yugoslavia in the 1940s.

[FEFPro]

Don’t forget about the bad/broken grammar

[Laschietotsk]

I love how your mustache moves so violently when you talk

[Mr.MR]

Also, german empire cam be drawn as a rechtangle, but that isn't actualy necessary, as II riech and riechtangle are sometimes 2 diffrent characters, or if you want to add more emotion to II riech make him a ball, because riechtangles eyes must stay 2 dots, so if you want emotion make him a ball.

[aerotype]

finally a youtuber that makes me want to watch them longer. a very rare occurrence nowadays.

[stinkynorsk]

I can't describe it, but this feels like a video I would watch many years ago, like, 2012 or 2013, back in ye olden days. Love it, keep on creating, man

[Springboi]

You look like the average cartoon villain that would twist his moustache while smiling in a evil way and cackling while talking about your plans to take over the world

[Cat_DeGaulle]

4:27 If you want to know the reason why omsk is a bird, there was a painting that is named "winged doom/welcome to omsk" it was funny so it quicky took on. And sometimes the bird may now be talking about "the great trial awaits" or something like that. Because their is a mod "The New Order" for the game HOI4 where germany won ww2 and russia fell into anarchy and what came out of omsk was some hypernationalistic state sought on ONLY taking revenge appon the 3 reich(nazi germany) and its catchfrase for destroying germany, that being "the great trial"

[poilus]

Something that might’ve been important to add is that Indonesia is usually drawn with a straw hat to differentiate from Poland.

[ICantThinkOfaNameBroski]

Bro called out the whole countryhuman fandom💀

[CaralhosComentarios]

"Please, don't add mouths to your character"
MrSpherical: I will pretend I did not see that