So... Im all for a sense of individuality and a sense of comunity aswell, Now something that atleast sounds relatively easy to do and would add abit more variation in the game would be to allow Lawspeakers to pick a colour from a list, or perhaps from an RGB colour picker so that each village could 'fly their own colours'.
All banners would then be coloured in that colour ofcourse, aswell as perhaps latter 'village' items.
(This should be relatively easy to do if you can write a nice little pixelshader, Just convert the Red from the banners into a nice gray, And then make a 1bit black and white mask of what should be coloured and what not to multiply a colour onto the base grays.)
I really think the game could use some features to let the players further erhm... differentiate themselves from others.
((something that wouldnt be as easy to do, would be to allow lawspeakers to design a sort of 'Coat of arms' with an ingame aplication, using premade symbols and backgrounds, That would be really really cool. but also require boatloads more work))
((forgive my english, Im not a native speaker and I've got dyslectia))