[Ramius]

Has anybody else noticed that those gears don’t mesh?

Ah, irony. :-)

[Verginius Rufus]

Plus the larger cog has what looks like a little red cross. Isn't that patent infringement, as well as causing affront to Muslims and other non-Christians?

The color green is presumably because it's one of the colors of the flag of Kenya. Kenya's flag also has black in it, but he doesn't want to think that his government is ever going to operate in the black.