I made this way back in 2010 but had never uploaded it for many different reasons.

The seal is overflowing with symbolism, starting with the mouse and the rat being almost the same size (the seal was created a few years after a war in which the rats invaded the mouse colony and lost). This means that the mouse is the dominant one in the picture, and yet is depicted in a frilly dress, to stress gender equality (a revolutionary idea from the human's point of view at the time!) The Union Jack, more than representing Great Britain, represents the mice's adoption of human language. The rat's flag, depicting Cinderella's slipper, represents heritage (the mice believe themselves to be descended from the ones in the original 1697 fairy tale).

The mouse government's motto (Honesty, Freedom, Justice) is obviously based on the French "liberté, égalité, fraternité" and are chosen as the values that truly make them not wild animals.

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