[Jeff]

My job...my duty on GBM...is to keep as many people as happy as possible. I reckon that more people would be angered by Satanist observances than pleased, and as Kai said, Christmas and Easter can be celebrated secularly.

And what you forget is that this is reality. It is a game, but it is not JUST a game and to call it such is grossly reductionist. It is many other things as well, among them a communication medium (Graal is probably used as a medium more as that than as a game, truth be told) and a business. I cannot stress that last bit enough. It is better to anger a few customers with an exclusion than to anger three times as many with an inclusion. I'm stretching it if I find some way to observe Ramadan, as that is a purely religious observance of the Muslims.


Note that the category in which I included Christmas is "ubiquitous holidays." It is there not because I am a Christian (though I am), but because most people on Graal celebrate it, and most of the rest could care less if I put up a blinking Christmas tree and give out Santa Claus hats.


The reason for some form of flags on a national holiday is because the general purpose of a flag is to provide a unique, easy-to-recognize symbol for a country. Such symbols existing, it seems only appropriate to use them.


Loriel's birthday? Hmmm, if I knew what that is (could probably find it) I could include that. He's done a lot for the server.