Consistent with the Stalinist ideology espoused by the state, the flag borrows the hammer and sickle from the design of the flag of the Soviet Union, but attempts to make the design more cheerful by tilting it 45 degrees to the right and adding a second star, so as to make it form a happy face. The reason for this, as explicitly expressed by the Supreme Dictator, was to "embody the joy of communism." Additionally, the flag is two-sided, the reverse being a plain red field without the happy face in the canton.