>>imagine, if you will, spending days…nay! months! working on a piece of
>>art that is nearly photographic in nature, only to mess one a simple thing as a
>>countries flag.

Well, I think that little factoid qualifies as an obscure fact, at least from an international standpoint. Most people wouldn’t think it’d take a country 96 years to come up with a flag, but there you have it.
And since most movies/games set in WW1, WW2 or Korea have the Canadians prancing around with maple leafs sewn to their uniforms, I figured it was decided that for the sake of clarity, we’d just retcon it in there.