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!
The Subreddit: / polandball
The Rules Page: / submission_rights
The Official Reddit Wiki (more rules): / index
Art Tutorials: / tutorials
Intro Accordion Song: • Mazurek Dąbrowskiego (...
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

[@spelticup]

not gonna throw shade to him! but his stuff isn't really polandball, but it's alright

[@Rangadus]

i’d say it’s ok if you can actually manage to make it look good, like no idea animation.

[@realdescubre]

@@Rangadus yeah, I enjoy the content overall

[@PersonWhoAsked.]

Live laugh love Mr. Spherical‼️‼️

[@shirkam3657]

I think its ok with Mr.Spherical, its fitting. Anyways, we can say Mr. Spherical and the spinoff SolarBalls (specially SolarBalls) are just loosely based on countryballs and planetballs

[@the_greyster]

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

[@marshenmelodies5108]

Objectflags?

[@Cil-lanCelepseCilantroCianuro]

As a countryhumanizer I can confirm that.

[@sebberthecoolest3000]

@@marshenmelodies5108do they have mouths

[@sebberthecoolest3000]

@@Cil-lanCelepseCilantroCianuroIRYO on Countryhumans

[@marshenmelodies5108]

@@sebberthecoolest3000 yes but its the entire flag and not just a ball

[@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.

[@spelticup]

i talk more about polandball's origin in another video if you wanna check it out!

[@HikidyMapping]

Australia: hold my beer

[@footfungus]

Just to troll wojak

[@minecraftcreeper8780]

​@@spelticup😡😡😡💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 POLAND 🇵🇱 INDONESIA 🇮🇩 MONACO 🇮🇩

[@WubotanistIsSuperCool]

@@minecraftcreeper8780 What?

[@microwave856]

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

[@spelticup]

I think a phrased it perfectly

[@microwave856]

@@spelticupyes

[@cherrycolareal]

​@@spelticupcorrect

[@BinglesP]

It's not "malleable"?

[@DIVECRAFTVODS]

@@spelticupAyo

[@madzokeen]

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

[@kuztral2361]

the fact that bulgariaball drawn the countryball looked a lil bit circlish

[@guessig]

if you never stop using cirlce tool you will never learn

[@jeannesery9936]

​@@guessigbut theres no reason to stop using it

[@indonesiaball8277]

@@guessig oh hi guess!

[@indonesiaball8277]

@@jeannesery9936 there is a reason to stop using it! the reason: circle tools make the circle look unnatural, and makes your art skills never improve!

[@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!

[@spelticup]

Thank you!

[@malpikacu6427]

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

[@helloifuseethis]

or eyepatches but sunglasses are way better

[@SBA2_asma]

Better things ever

[@AnIrish777]

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

[@spelticup]

there's a way to make ms paint look nice

[@Fish_sticks94]

HI ANIRISH

[@thecerealprovider3831]

Is pixilart ok with countryballs? i love country/polandballs but ms paint just doesnt work for me, looks good but i just cant draw with it is pixilart ok? it just feels better with me great video@@spelticup!

[@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.

[@jan_Pate]

i liked the part where he said balls

[@spelticup]

bawls

[@TheRepublicOfSavadia]

​@@spelticupSir, what if I'm on tablet, I don't have MS Paint.

[@roecatgaming]

​@@TheRepublicOfSavadiaflipaclip

[@sebberthecoolest3000]

@@AntiAzovIndividualor sketchpad

[@RedTrex9]

​@@TheRepublicOfSavadiaor ibis paint

[@FEF-Productions]

Don’t forget about the bad/broken grammar

[@spelticup]

Yep! That's a part of it. I mostly stuck to the drawing parts though

[@SlimeSquadz]

"yuo gib mi milk"is one example and one meme i treasure. "gib clay" "no go aways" "gib clay" "no" "gib clay" "..." "I NOT HEAR A/AN /optional/ NO"

[@Shinytwist]

@@SlimeSquadzlmao

[@UkrainemasterX]

Maui who’d aido aid so

[@User-A-F-l5l]

Yes Is That Must Do To When Countryballs Drawing

[@ohenet]

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

[@stinkynorsk5883]

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

[@stinkynorsk5883]

Thank you for the information, Nnoxie. I appreciate the educational tidbit.

[@Mr.MR2111]

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.

[@paxarite]

reichtangle often depicted as the fourth reich

[@JiecinDumolang2011]

As a Countryball Creator, I agree

[@spelticup]

I'm glad you do!

[@JiecinDumolang2011]

Oh wait bro, let's talk about another antagonist of Countryballs, it's Reichtangle, you better talk about it in your next video...

[@spelticup]

@@JiecinDumolang2011 trying to avoid becoming the next polandball channel... but if i make another video i will mention it

[@JiecinDumolang2011]

@@spelticup ok²

[@turkiyeturkmenball69]

As a countryball creator too, I punish myself If I forget these rules 💀🤑

[@UkrainemasterX]

5:23 wow great Polandbal- WAIT PLS SPARE ME WHY ARE U AT MY HOUSE AHHHH

[@bugztandosffhat305]

The Circle tool doesn't need to be set on fire

[@spelticup]

false!

[@thesameguywhomaderoomlocked]

i agree with mr. icup

[@skullpants]

I want to stomp on hyper realistic Poland ball until it turns into a small pink stain

[@spelticup]

yummy drink

[@KonohaBall]

Nice video ! Also, as a countryballer, you can also try to "glue" the eyes to the flag, so it can be less cursed

[@sebz447]

"countryballer" is such a cursed yet somehow normal word lol

[@donttreadonme123]

how do you glue eyes on a country ball 🗣️

[@poilus]

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

[@ajaychandel1982]

And Monaco wears sunglasses

[@poilus]

@@ajaychandel1982 true

[@rohanleblancsloan9651]

I first watched this vid when you had 900 subs, damn you grew fast

[@FardGaming_410]

This KZbinr is so underrated

[@spelticup]

Thank you!

[@minecraftcreeper8780]

​@@spelticupno Thank you 😡💔🇵🇱

[@sebz447]

blud is angry that Poland is upside down lmao

[@FardGaming_410]

@@minecraftcreeper8780 bro is mad that polands flag is upside down (do you even know what a joke of the polish flag is? If no delete you're useless comment

[@ramenXD]

Amazing, and dang? only 1.2k subs? I’m subscribing.

[@spelticup]

Thank you!

[@byzantinescountryballmakings]

Thanks so much for the tutorial! Now I know how to draw countryballs and follow r/polandball rules!

[@zhane9islame61]

I really like your animations

[@Laschietotsk]

I love how your mustache moves so violently when you talk

[@spelticup]

It's a skill

[@The_ukulele]

Bro called out the whole countryhuman fandom💀

[@taffingtonboathouse5754]

We got worse. (Me being a former countryhuman fan

[@a_random_thing]

😢 =(

[@joaonerdgamer9345]

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

[@ishimforrealnofake]

We hate confusing indonesia with poland.

[@chilled338]

You forgor something we dont have -Any respect to the countryhumans fandom

[@Thatcypriomapper]

-good painters

[@ChristopherTom]

Icee Ulysses Panker has just saved me a lifetime spent in art school with this video...

[@spelticup]

Truly a modern marvel...

[@Palestine9083]

I have seen your vids and i think its really cool Have a good day/night

[@spelticup]

Thank you!

[@Palestine9083]

​@@spelticup You're welcome

[@terra_sussy255]

Sometimes you CAN bend the rules, but only if you absolutely know what you're doing. Look at MrSpherical; adding hands (sometimes), mouths, and eyebrows to countryballs, but they do it well, almost to the point where it's normal It can also help show more expression to the ball, but you should only do this if you absolutely know what you're doing, like Spherical Just NEVER ADD ARMS

[@RealWhitePikmin]

No matter what you do just make the back of Finland a stripe and not a mirror of the front

[@TAEYONGISMYFATHER71]

So as the other Nordic flags or cross flags too?

[@ERS127]

Who is for Austria Hungary having sunglasses instead of Eyepatches?

[@childreninmybasement1]

sunglasses werent really a thing in austria hungary at the time

[@spaghettiisyummy.3623]

Either works.

[@sebz447]

both are fine ig

[@tabletgenesis3439]

I guess then just add the coat of arms and no one will notice

[@Joshsuevic]

Me

[@charliewashere_2]

rule 3: he just describe countryhumans

[@a_random_thing]

Yes, but just with a body and not just arms and legs ^^

[@ceruravinula-hf6ix]

I draw it correctly already before I know the rules😂😂😂

[@spelticup]

awesome!

[@leeyenherngcalebpeircess6121]

Subconscious knowledge

[@Yeen_Ko]

+100 Respect. I could never type awsome on a slight hate comment.@@spelticup

[@minecraftcreeper8780]

​@@spelticupBuuuuuuuuuu

[@shpho]

I'll accept literally every rule EXCEPT for that upside-down thing, because I ain't gonna accept a rule because the original creator couldn't do something as simple as checking the flag and doing it right

[@spelticup]

From what I know, it was an intentional choice to make Poland upside down in order to piss off a Polish nationalist (Wojak). You don't have to, but just know you can't submit right-side-up poland to the reddit!

[@royerball]

Muchas gracias maestro ;)

[@spelticup]

de nada

[@MarylandballProductions]

As a Countryball animator, this is actually really accurate.

[@realdescubre]

Hey, its me Descubre! You may lnow me from that one MrSpherical comment from 7 months since i wrote this. Just want to say, I respect the team and I love the animations. Just had this to say. I am not editing the original comment because I dont want to lose the heart so thats for y'all. Have a blessed day.

[@cawsomeaolin]

i quite like this channel

[@messupd]

This always causes a fire in Countryball communities (Reddit, discord, amino,) lol Good times..

[@amandamccaw9389]

Don’t forget, you can have one type of hands. An oval that floats like a hand, no arm.

[@suamaeMP4]

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

[@JacobFlores-zw7kf]

3:48 you are a great singer

[@spelticup]

even if that's sarcastic, thank you!

[@AverageSillyGuy5555]

The only rule i dont follow is upside down poland. Why: My brother remembers countryballs from when it first started, he told me that upside down poland was a mistake, and people made fun of the creator. Then the creator fixed poland but people kept drawing it upside down to troll him.

[@TAEYONGISMYFATHER71]

Yeah.. it’s just dumb.. there’s already Indonesia and Monaco, why have another? Lol

[@sebz447]

Actually I think Falco (the guy who first made it) drew the Poland flag upside down on accident, but then everyone decided that the design was cool and it stuck from there, but I may be wrong lol

[@deroynwaokike4512]

Everyone I know follows the upside-down Poland ball rule do to it being a staple in the series

[@gamermbsmelonplaygroundrob3690]

Agreed it didn't make sense when I sometimes thought it was Indonesia but later tell me it's poland and nobody told me why it's a rule Its like throwing a seed up in the air so it comes out as a upside down tree

[@Tripleye]

0:39 *_pure beauty._*

[@spelticup]

nightmares

[@cookie26263]

0:38

[@taffingtonboathouse5754]

5:24 countryhumans mid transformation. Yikes

[@sebz447]

yikes is right, we do not talk about that

[@a_random_thing]

😨😰

[@Someowne]

cant wait for the countryhumans episode

[@spelticup]

Don't know about that...

[@Someowne]

@@spelticup its probably for the better lol

[@eyebrowlover75]

😨

[@taffingtonboathouse5754]

​@@spelticuponly rules about countryhumans. Don't search it up on Google images and avoid the really strange areas.

[@sebz447]

​@@spelticupthank god, also DONT SEARCH IT UP FOR YOUR OWN GOOD

[@emycharaa]

Did you see Venice in the countryballs universe? He has legs!

[@brandon.05]

Small dumb correction: Omsk I believe is an oblast in Russia not just a city

[@ej_makesvideos]

3:06 imagine hearing this no context

[@12carbon]

Countryballs are country balls though, as long as they're balls and represent a country.

[@glasg0]

I think Noideaanimations was one of the first to put mouths onto countryballs, I remember watching his video years ago but unfortunately he doesn't post anymore

[@elekunt]

i saw people use USA without glasses or UK without the top hat or a monocle to distinguish them from today USA/UK and past USA/UK like for example in the countryball civil war USA had no glasses yet, so there's that i guess also, good video

[@TheExpertProcrastinator]

personally i give sunglasses to the us if its after 1945

[@Pobeehpo]

idk if this is ok but whenever the *balls* are holding something I like to give them a round hand to hold it, if their not holding something they don’t have the hands at all.

[@SlimeSquadz]

same

[@TheAntelligenceGamerOnScratch]

Same

[@tabletgenesis3439]

Same it looks weird otherwise

[@Azide.01]

Country balls are absolutely 100% malleable and squishy

[@spelticup]

100% true!

[@entitypolyhedron]

Don’t follow rules. Remember, this is art and you can literally do whatever you want.

[@octy_kit_animations]

The thumbnail 💀🙏

[@justNort]

love this lol

[@spelticup]

thank you!

[@krio1267]

as a ( maybe ) polandball artist you're very correct i draw furry often now since im one but I still draw Polandball in ocassions

[@SBA2_asma]

I broke 2 rules 1. The circle rule 2. The hair rule ( it’s looks good srry)

[@kebabmanfr]

as a polish person, the intro made me stand

[@lebanonmapping5839]

3:23 imagine a horror film about that...

[@spelticup]

Nightmare

[@lebanonmapping5839]

@@spelticup tbh I would check it out

[@cookie26263]

3:22

[@lebanonmapping5839]

@@cookie26263 ?

[@ussrmapping9185]

DimondBallz production: HELL NO THIS NOT COUNTRYBALLS!

[@TheToadFan95]

Me trying to find a countryball artist that draws Poland upside down in 2023:

[@spelticup]

there's quite a few!

[@foxlandism]

I used to mix up the order until I realized the actual order (acc. to the PB community)

[@superpro3227]

Omsk is a bird because it has one of the highest rates of drug trafficking if not the highest

[@RenCarrier]

Bavaria sometimes turns into a ✨table cloth✨ and everyone knows the Venice is an octopus os squid

[@keroppib4ptista]

I *insist* to draw Poland right side up

[@Czekytcze]

You forgot the rectangle germany

[@mr9263]

Bomb ass video dude

[@resolvanlemmy]

Singapore's a triangle, Israel's a cube, and Kazakhstan's a brick. Do I dare ask why?

[@sebz447]

israel is just jewish physics, that's all ik

[@resolvanlemmy]

@@sebz447 Jewish physics, huh? That's actually hilarious.

[@sebz447]

yea lol

[@sebz447]

also Singapore is a triangle because Singaporeball felt like too much for people, so they called it "tringapore" instead, same with "kazakhbrick" I think

[@resolvanlemmy]

@@sebz447 That's their excuse? Kind of a lame one.

[@Puggysworldshorts2014]

Stateballs Breaks Every Polandball rule

[@That-Madness-Fan]

Danke! I used to draw lines between each color, now I don't thank you

[@DinoRicky]

2:26 the worst tragedy is adding a mouth… Mr spherical: *N O*

[@cookie26263]

2:29

[@bananamanduh3171]

georgia in thumbnail!!1!

[@Deth_Ryder]

I didn’t know that Benson from Regular Show had been turned into a CountryBall…

[@user-Erimej]

Recently the Soviet Union has been depicted with a golden eye. Any ideas?

[@2pedroandrade]

Only Brazillians add the Oakley mirrored sunglasses to Brazilball, it's a fashionable detail some foreigners misses

[@Ikazune_]

Venice is a Octopus Chile is a Worm!

[@partisan3353]

Ok i mgonna make the absolute sweet bro and hella jeff typa country balls comics

[@mushroomy9899]

I’ve only ever drawn one poland ball comic about the popes war on cats, i posted it to discord and i’m pretty sure somebody stole it and put it on reddit. 😭

[@guisampaio2008]

What are the reasons for the different shapes?

[@dominicanball2361]

The only rule I do not follow is the drawing the flag one because it saves so much time, and although prefer the look of the drawn flags, I still do not draw the flags.

[@sebz447]

9999999 years in polandball prison

[@guessig]

hey man you will learn a lot when drawing the flags by hand

[@Thot_Patrol_USA]

you gotta be committed to this! you cant just halfass it! draw the flag! if it’s too hard dont use the country or learn overtime

[@helioslegigantosaure6939]

"Live to the ball"😂😂😂

[@daylight0921]

i will make them so unseeable, that i will not break any rules due to no one noticing

[@waterman7082]

Yo, why is polandball the face of countryballs?

[@spelticup]

I have a video about the Origin of PolandBall/CountryBalls that explains that, but basically: Poland was the first CountryBall.

[@Gio_bea]

Came here cuz I just wanted to see if there was my country but it's only on thumbnail 😭

[@spelticup]

Then there's a good chance it can be drawn just as a ball with the flag on it!

[@viperur1120]

That "wrong polandball" looks like some Czech cartoon

[@jacoanimationstudio-di7hi]

Honestly, I used to add mouths to my countryballs, and you definitely can add mouths to them. Definitely not arms and legs tho wth-

[@Kolasi_PB]

Of course you say it's acceptable to add mouths

[@jacoanimationstudio-di7hi]

@@Kolasi_PB what do you mean

[@YoyolandGuy]

why do u add mouths

[@jacoanimationstudio-di7hi]

@@YoyolandGuy not anymore

[@AshDoesGames.]

real moment

[@spelticup]

real moment

[@AshDoesGames.]

@@spelticup indeed real moment

[@TheGarfieldDude]

ASHY MOMENT 😱👉

[@poilus]

Real moment

[@SBA2_asma]

ASHY U HERE YAY!

[@AvrageGuamanian]

If you do want to add legs and arms, take a look at countryhumans.

[@pengiunanimatorguy]

3:46 for the song

[@spelticup]

It's called the Polandball Exceptions Song!

[@pengiunanimatorguy]

@@spelticup thanks

[@pengiunanimatorguy]

@@spelticup where can I find it

[@spelticup]

@@pengiunanimatorguy I haven't uploaded it anywhere else... Maybe one day

[@TeoZhaoHuiXinminss-yu4di]

FINALLY SOMEONE INCULDES SINGAPORE

[@JacobJohnsen-nu7nl]

Me who draws lines in my countryballs: shoot.

[@nathancherd9109]

what about balls about ficional contries, like the mcrn from the expance? are there any rules for those, and if there are not, can i make up my own?

[@spelticup]

for the subreddit, i am pretty sure they must be real countries. but you can still make fictional countries in polandball, you just can't post it there!

[@nathancherd9109]

@@spelticup alright, can I still make fictional countryballs that do not follow any rules and post it in its own universe? Like putting an MCRN ball in an expanse sureddit?

[@user-ru7fh6lm8j]

I just love how Poland turns upside down!

[@astroturf7802]

Australian Poland

[@yourlocalisation]

I hate it

[@user-ru7fh6lm8j]

@@yourlocalisation Something is definetly wrong with you)

[@Square_Productions2024]

@@yourlocalisation he's vertically symmetrical so just flip him upside down

[@matiasgc5545]

@@yourlocalisation me too

[@thomas1peck736]

how did this get on my computer...

[@PANCAKESS10000]

did u know canada has a trapper hat for winter?! russia has a ussr hat idk kinda like trapper hat chad has 8 ball eyes austrilla is upside down lol the german empire is a rethtangle with small white eyes (not outline)

[@superslicer3337]

Don’t forget that Poland ball is Argentina in the comlcs

[@notvegan111]

As a person who draws countryball I literally mistaken Indonesia for Poland.