List of fictional countries
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This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as we know it — as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.
A
Name | Work | Notes |
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Aerugo | Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood anime series | Aerugo is a Principality governed by Prince Claudio. As a princedom, Aerugo is a much smaller country compared to Amestris but is able to retain control over the Aerugo border war. |
Amestris | Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood anime series | Amestris is a Unitary State, with a population of about 50 million and a Parliamentary Republic type of Government. The Head of State is the Commander-in-Chief of the Military who holds the title of "Führer" (大総統, Daisōtō in Japanese, a form of "Generalissimo") and who concentrates the ranks of Head of State and Head of Government. |
Antegria | Papers, Please, The Republia Times | A sovereign state in the Game Papers Please, by Lucas Pope, which includes the cities of St. Marmero, Glorian, and Outer Grouse. |
Archenland | The Chronicles of Narnia | a nation to the south of Narnia, and to the north of both nations' occasional (and final) enemy, Calormen. Its borders are formed by mountains to the north and by the River Winding Arrow to the south. Its capital appears to be the castle located below the Anvard pass, which allows passage to Narnia.[1][2] |
Arendelle | Disney's Frozen | |
Arstotzka | Papers, Please | A sovereign state in the Game Papers Please, by Lucas Pope, which is divided into at least eight districts, and also includes the cities of Orvech Vonor, Paradizna, Nirsk, and East Grestin, where most gameplay takes place. |
Atlantis | Timaeus | a mythological island nation first mentioned by Plato. |
Aurelia | Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception | |
Axphain | Graustark: The Story of a Love Behind a Throne | neighbor of Graustark in several novels by George Barr McCutcheon. |
B
Name | Work | Notes |
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Babar's Kingdom | Babar the Elephant | a country supposedly in Northern Africa consisting of intelligent elephants that are usually bipedal and civilized. |
Baltish | Baltish | a fictional country from a Lithuanian TV show of the same name. |
Bangalla | The Phantom | a central African nation |
Bangistan | Bangistan | a fictional country featured in the Bollywood film by the same name |
Barbituros Islands | San Sombrèro: A Land of Carnivals, Cocktails and Coups | Caribbean islands bordering San Sombrèro. |
Belavia (Велавия) | The Prince and Me 3: A Royal Honeymoon | a fictional Denmark's dependent Slavic country somewhere in the Balkans or Eastern Europe |
Berzerkistan | Doonesbury | located between Iran and Russia.[3] Its capital is either called Bmzklfrpz City[3] or Trff City.[4] |
Bialya | DC Comics | |
Blefuscu | Gulliver's Travels | a land where all the people are tiny from the book by Jonathan Swift. |
Bolumbia | The Shadow of a Titan | a South American dictatorship, from Felix Wedgwood's novel[5] |
Borduria | The Adventures of Tintin | totalitarian state from the comics series, located in the Balkans |
Borostyria | Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar | a Balkan principality modeled on Montenegro[6] |
Borginia | Ace Attorney | a Northern European republic that is stated to be very small in size, and is best known in the series for being home to the world-famous singer Lamiroir. |
Brobdingnag | Gulliver's Travels | a land occupied by giants from the book by Jonathan Swift. |
Brungaria | an Eastern European dictatorship similar to the Soviet Union, in the Tom Swift, Jr. series | |
Buenaventura | Air America | A small Latin American nation which served as the setting for Lorenzo Lamas' hit TV series Air America. |
Buranda | Yes Minister | A developing African country, formerly known as British Equatorial Africa. |
C
Name | Work | Notes | |||
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Cagliostro | The Castle of Cagliostro | a tiny, mountainous European duchy in the Lupin III film | |||
Calbia | The King Maker | a tiny Balkan republic in the Doc Savage adventure | |||
Caledonia | Scandal | a European monarchy featured in the season 5 premiere episode which bears strong similarities to the United Kingdom | |||
Carpathia | The Sleeping Prince | Balkan kingdom in the play by Terence Rattigan and the subsequent film The Prince and the Showgirl | |||
Chernarus | ArmA 2 | post-Soviet republic | |||
Cobrastan | Papers, Please | A fictional country in the world of Papers Please, invented by character Jorji Costava. It apparently has a city named "Bestburg". | |||
Cobra Island | GI Joe | A fictional country in the world of GI Joe. The Evil terrorist organization Cobra Command caused the formation of the island in the Gulf of Mexico, claimed the island and declared sovereignty. They used it as a base and as a front that gave Cobra agents around the world diplomatic immunity. | Country of the Blind | "The Country of the Blind" | a country where all the population are blind, situated in a hidden valley near Ecuador, from a short story by H. G. Wells. |
Coalition States | Rifts | a fascist empire founded upon the post-apocalyptic ruins of the American Midwest.[7] | |||
Corto Maltese | Batman, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 1 and Part 2 | A small island nation off the coast of South America, Corto Maltese was the location of the Corto Maltese Revolution and a military standoff between the United States of America, the Soviet Union, and Superman. Photojournalist Vicki Vale's photos of the revolution were featured in Time Magazine. | |||
Creta | Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood anime series | Creta is a country in the world of Fullmetal Alchemist, located west of the main country of the series, Amestris. |
D
Name | Work | Notes |
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Dawsbergen | neighbor of Graustark | |
Deltora | Deltora Quest series | a fictional land in the Deltora Quest series, written by Emily Rodda |
Dinotopia | a hidden, utopian island from James Gurney's illustrated books | |
Drachma | Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood anime series | Drachma (ˈdrækmə; drak-ma) is a country in the World of Fullmetal Alchemist, located north of the main country of the series, Amestris. |
E
Name | Work | Notes |
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Eagleland | EarthBound | The country is based on the US. Ness and Paula are from here. |
Earthsea | Tales from Earthsea | a sea of islands from the stories by Ursula K. Le Guin and the 2006 movie Tales from Earthsea by Goro Miyazaki |
Ecotopia | Ecotopia | an ecological utopia appearing in the novels Ecotopia and Ecotopia Emerging by Ernest Callenbach. |
Elbonia | Dilbert | backward country from the comic strip. Its citizens are waist deep in liquid mud. |
Emmeria | Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation | |
Equatorial Kundu | The West Wing | a West African republic |
Equestria | My Little Pony | The main country in the series. It is inhabited by ponies, including the show's 6 protagonists. |
Eriador | Lord of the Rings | |
Estoccia | Scarecrow and Mrs. King | the country where Joe King is based with the Emergency Aid Organisation. |
Estovakia | Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation. |
F
Name | Work | Notes |
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Farfelu | The Kingdom of Farfelu | a surrealisitic place in the novel by André Malraux[8] |
Fe'ausi | Diplomatic Immunity | South Pacific island from the New Zealand television series |
Fiore | Fairy Tail | Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. |
Florin | The Princess Bride | the setting of The Princess Bride |
Freedonia | Duck Soup | European country from the 1933 Marx Brothers film |
G
Name | Work | Notes |
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Genosha | Various Marvel Comics | an island nation that has been home to a mutant sanctuary and concentration camp at various points |
Genovia | The Princess Diaries | European country from novels and film adaptations |
Gérolstein | La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein | 18th-century German principality in the opéra bouffe |
Gilead | The Handmaid's Tale | a theocratic country occupying the territory of the former United States in the novel by Margaret Atwood. |
Glovania | Gasoline Alley | home country of the biological parents of the character Skeezix in the comic strip. Skeezix's father Col. Henri Coda was the ruling Grand Duke prior to a revolution. Glovania's capital and major seaport is Ragpo, located on the Mediterranean to the east of Italy.[9] |
Glubbdubdrib | Gulliver's Travels | an island (about one-third the size of the Isle of Wight) governed by a tribe of magicians; from the novel by Jonathan Swift. |
Gondal | an imaginary world created by Emily Brontë and Anne Brontë | |
Gondor | Lord of the Rings | a country in J. R. R. Tolkien's series. |
Gondour | "The Curious Republic of Gondour" | an ideal republic imagined by Mark Twain in his short story. |
Guilder | The Princess Bride | "The sworn enemy of Florin" |
Grand Fenwick | The Mouse That Roared | a duchy in The Mouse That Roared (1955) and sequels by Leonard Wibberley. |
Graustark | Eastern European country in several novels by George Barr McCutcheon. | |
Graznavia | This War of Mine | An Eastern European republic ravaged by civil war in This War of Mine, a video game by 11 bit studios. |
Grenyarnia | 30 Rock | "A country only known by the richest people on earth," from NBC's 30 Rock. |
Groland | fictional country featured in various humorous programs on French television channel Canal+. |
H
Name | Work | Notes |
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Halla | Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne | a kingdom from the 1969 Satyajit Ray film |
Holy Britannian Empire | Code Geass anime series | The Holy Britannian Empire (神聖ブリタニア帝国 Shinsei Buritania Teikoku, also referred to as the Britannian Empire or just Britannia) is a nation born from the defeated remnants of the British Empire and is the world's dominant military superpower. |
Hyrule | The Legend of Zelda |
I
Name | Work | Notes |
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Ishval, or Ishbal (in the anime) | Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood anime series | A county invaded by Armestris. Its population is massacred in the Ishval Civil War.[10] |
Impor | Papers, Please | A sovereign state in the Game Papers Please, by Lucas Pope, which includes the cities of Enkyo, Haihan, and Tsunkeido. |
Islandia | Islandia | self-isolated country in Austin Tappan Wright's novel of the same name. |
Isle of Fogg | San Sombrèro: A Land of Carnivals, Cocktails and Coups | the only one of the 23 (fictitious) Outcropp Islands off the west coast of Scotland to be inhabited, mentioned in a parody travel guidebook. |
Ivalice | Final Fantasy | |
Ixania | The Dark Frontier | a small Balkan country of little global importance in Eric Ambler's 1936 novel. |
Idris | The Shadowhunter Chronicles | The Shadowhunter home country |
Illéa | The Selection | the setting of The Selection trilogy . |
J
K
Name | Work | Notes |
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Kahndaq | DC Comics | an ancient Middle-Eastern country in located on the Sinai Peninsula, between Egypt, Israel and Jordan. |
Kamistan | 24 (season 8) | a Middle Eastern Islamic republic |
Kangan | Anthills of the Savannah | a West African country ruled by the dictator Sam in the novel by Chinua Achebe. |
Kasnia | DC Comics | war-torn Eastern European monarchy |
Kazirstan | Beyond Two Souls | Country with a rift to the other side |
Kashfar | Scandal | a Middle Eastern country mentioned in the episode Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Four US Army soldiers stationed there are taken hostage, causing President Fitzgerald Grant to send in a SEAL team to rescue them. |
Khemed | The Adventures of Tintin | an Arabic emirate from the comic |
Kinakuta | Cryptonomicon | an island state from Neal Stephenson's novels |
Kolechia | Papers, Please | A sovereign state in the Game Papers Please, by Lucas Pope, which includes the cities of West Grestin, Vedor, and Yurko City. |
Krakozhia | The Terminal | a Slavic country from the 2004 film |
Kumranistan | Yes Prime Minister | a Central Asian Islamic republic from the 2013 remake of Yes Prime Minister; this country is a variation of Qumran (a fictional oil-rich sheikdom located in the Persian Gulf) which featured in the original series of Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister. |
Kumbolaland | Good Omens | An African nation in Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's work. |
Kyrat | Far Cry 4 | an East Asian nation in the Himalayas, roughly equivalent to Nepal |
Kyrzbekistan | The New York Times | an error in the newspaper on January 7, 2015, caused a flurry of activity in social media including parody accounts and web sites[11] |
L
Name | Work | Notes |
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Latveria | Fantastic Four | a kingdom in the ruled by the tyrannical Doctor Doom |
Laurania | Savrola | in the book by Winston Churchill |
Lands Beyond | The Phantom Tollbooth | see "Wisdom" |
Lilliput | Gulliver's Travels | a land where all the people are tiny from the book by Jonathan Swift. |
Loompa Land | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | home of the Oompa Loompas in the book by Roald Dahl |
Lower Slobbovia | Li'l Abner | an occasional exotic setting for the classic hillbilly comic strip by Al Capp |
M
Name | Work | Notes |
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Malicuria | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | a monarchy run by Emperor Aleister from the episode "April's Fool" of 1987 animated TV series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.[12] |
Monroe Republic | Revolution (TV series) | A fictional republic in northern USA, from the TV show Revolution |
Marivella Islands | Tales of the Gold Monkey | a South Pacific volcanic chain consisting of hundreds of mysterious and tropical islands featured in the 1982 adventure television series Tales of the Gold Monkey and now described as the Republic of the Marivelles. |
Markovia | DC Comics | an independent Alpine nation in DC Comics, ruled by the superhero Geo-Force. |
Matobo | The Interpreter | a state in the sub-Saharan region of Africa. |
Melniboné | Michael Moorcock | An island country created by Michael Moorcock. |
Mendorra | One Life to Live | a European monarchy on the long-running U.S. soap opera One Life to Live. |
Meropis | Theopompus | a parody of Atlantis created by Theopompus of Chios. |
Metrofulus | Cicak Man (film series) | a cold country in the Cicak-Man movies. |
Molvanîa | Molvanîa: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry | Eastern European country from a parody travel guidebook. |
Moldavia | Dynasty | a European monarchy ruled by King Galen and his son, Prince Michael in the TV series Dynasty until at the Prince's wedding to Amanda Carrington at the end of the show's 5th season, rebels stormed the palace, killing many wedding guests and exiling the royal family. |
Moldovakia | Recess | Fictional country in the TV show Recess. |
Mushroom Kingdom | Super Mario Bros | Kingdom in the Super Mario Bros series where Princess Peach is the Princess, she often gets kidnapped by Bowser and the Mario Bros, Mario and Luigi have to go rescue her. |
Mypos | Perfect Strangers | Fictional country that Balki Bartokomous was from. |
N
Name | Work | Notes |
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Naboombu | The Magic Bed Knob & Bonfires and Broomsticks | Mythical island of animals in "The Magic Bed Knob" and "Bonfires and Broomsticks" by Mary Norton, the book on which the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks is based on. |
Nambutu | Casino Royale | African nation with an embassy in Madagascar. Presumably a former French colony, given bilingual signage seen in the embassy. |
Nerdocrumbesia | Match Game | Fictional "sleazy" country from game show Match Game. |
Nevoruss | a powerful state in the north of Russia and America created by Russian writer Grigoriy Demidovtsev | |
Ninety Nine Stars Tribe | Support Your Local Angel | From the Support Your Local Angel series of eBooks by Kirk Bailey. |
Norland | "Danger!" | a small European country which defeats the mighty British Empire by effective submarine warfare, in Arthur Conan Doyle's story "Danger!" |
Novistrana | Republic: The Revolution | from the computer game Republic: The Revolution |
New German Republic | Rifts | a technologically advanced post-apocalyptic society encompassing Central Europe that is governed by the Triax megacorporation in the Rifts role-playing game.[13] |
Norgborg | San Sombrèro: A Land of Carnivals, Cocktails and Coups | small nation located within the Arctic Circle, featured in a parody travel guidebook. |
Nuevo Rico | The Adventures of Tintin | a South American nation within the classic Belgian comic series, adjacent to the also-fictional country of San Theodoros. |
Nukehavistan | The Onion | an allegedly nuclear-armed country within the former Soviet Union, depicted by The Onion as adjacent to Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.[14] |
Nuku'la Atoll | San Sombrèro: A Land of Carnivals, Cocktails and Coups | an archipelago in the South Pacific and former colony of the French colonial empire featured in a parody travel guidebook. |
O
Name | Work | Notes |
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Obristan | Papers, Please | A sovereign state in the Game Papers, Please, by Lucas Pope, which includes the cities of Lorndaz, Skal, and Mergerous. |
Oceania | Nineteen Eighty-Four | totalitarian superstate centered on the Americas in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. |
Organization of North American Nations (O.N.A.N.) | Infinite Jest | North American superstate from David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. |
Orsinia | Orsinian Tales and Malafrena | a Central European country similar to Czechoslovakia or Hungary, the focus of Ursula K. Le Guin's Orsinian Tales and the novel Malafrena. |
Oz | L. Frank Baum's Oz books | magical land in L. Frank Baum's Oz books, as well as the later novel, movie The Wizard of Oz and the book and play Wicked and its sequels. |
P
Name | Work | Notes |
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Palombia | Spirou et Fantasio | home of the Marsupilami |
Panau | Just Cause 2 | An island country in South East Asia under dictatorial rule and the setting for the 2010 game. |
Panem | The Hunger Games | In the novel, the nation of "Panem" has risen from the ashes of a post-apocalyptic North America.[15][16] Panem's seat of power is a utopian city, called "The Capitol," located in the Rocky Mountains. Outside of the Capitol, the nation is divided into twelve districts under the hegemony of a fascist, totalitarian dictatorship, headed by a tyrannical and cruel dictator. |
Parador | Moon Over Parador | A South American country and location of events in Moon Over Parador. |
Patusan | Lord Jim | an island nation somewhere in the South China Sea in Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad. Also mentioned in the 1993 film Surf Ninjas as well as in the film The Last Electric Knight and the TV series Sidekicks. |
Penguina (L'île des Pingouins) | Penguin Island | in the 1908 novel by Anatole France, an island in the North Sea where penguins were miraculously transformed into humans (and which is in fact a satirical view of France). |
Petoria | Family Guy | A micronation in Family Guy which seceded from the US and re-patriotized in less than a week. |
Phaic Tăn | Phaic Tăn: Sunstroke on a Shoestring | Indochinese country from a parody travel guidebook. |
Poictesme | a country situated roughly in the south of France in the books of James Branch Cabell. | |
Pokolistan | DC Comics | a former Soviet Republic in the DC Comics universe formerly ruled by General Zod |
Polrugaria | archetypal Communist-ruled country, "heavily modelled on Poland"[17] in Isaac Deutscher's 1952 essay "The Tragic Life of a Polrugarian Minister" | |
Pottsylvania | The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show | from Jay Ward's The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show |
Q
Name | Work | Notes |
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Qumar | The West Wing | a Middle Eastern state from the television series The West Wing |
Qumran (Kumrahn) |
Yes Minister | an Arab country in the BBC comedy series Yes Minister |
Qurac | DC Comics | a Persian Gulf country in the DC Comics Universe, often used when DC needs a terrorist state. |
R
Name | Work | Notes |
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Ragaan | Embassy | a South-East Asian country located half-way up the Malay Peninsula, somewhere between Thailand and Malaysia; from the Australian television series Embassy. |
Ravka | Shadow and Bone | the country from Shadow and Bone as well as the rest of the Grisha Trilogy; the country resembles Russia in language and culture. |
Republia | Papers Please | A sovereign state in the Games Papers Please and The Republia Times, by Lucas Pope, which includes the cities of Lesrenadi, Glorian, and Bostan. |
Rhelasia | Young Justice | Originally two nations of North and South, based on North and South Korea, from the TV series Young Justice. |
Robo-Hungarian Empire | Futurama | the home of Bender's uncle in Futurama; a parody of Austria-Hungary |
Robonia | Futurama | a country invented by Bender in Futurama |
Rohan | The Lord of the Rings | Country in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings series. |
Ruritania | The Prisoner of Zenda | a German-speaking kingdom in central Europe from Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda and associated works. |
Rook Islands | Far Cry 3 | The two island setting for Ubisoft's Far Cry 3 |
S
Name | Work | Notes |
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St. Georges Island | Yes, Prime Minister | an island nation located somewhere in the Arabian Sea. It was the centrepoint of the episode A Victory for Democracy from the sitcom, Yes, Prime Minister. |
Samavia | The Lost Prince | Eastern European kingdom in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Lost Prince |
Sangala | 24 | a Western African republic featuring in the television series 24, which is briefly taken over by General Juma in a military coup. |
San Lorenzo | Cat's Cradle | a tiny rocky island nation located in the Caribbean Sea in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle |
San Lorenzo | Leverage | A small European nation featured in the third season of the TV series Leverage. |
San Marcos | Bananas and Archer Vice | A Latin American banana republic. |
San Salvador | Ryhmy ja Romppainen | a banana republic in constant, but frivolous civil wars that are fought for show only, in the humor book series Ryhmy ja Romppainen by pseudonym Armas J. Pulla.[18] |
San Seriffe | The Guardian | an island nation featured in an elaborate April Fools' Day hoax on 1 April 1977 in the British newspaper The Guardian. |
San Sombrèro | San Sombrèro: A Land of Carnivals, Cocktails and Coups | a Central American country from a parody travel guidebook. |
San Theodoros | The Adventures of Tintin | a South American nation featured in several of The Adventures of Tintin, stories, home of General Alcazar |
Santa Prisca | DC Comics | a Caribbean nation in the DC Universe, home to Batman villain Bane. |
Santo Marco | Marvel Comics | A fictional South American nation appearing in Marvel Mainstream Continuity, Earth-616, which was briefly occupied by the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants until they were driven out by a mutant superhero team, X-Men. |
São Rico | The Adventures of Tintin | a Portuguese-speaking South American country, featured in The Adventures of Tintin. |
Sarkhan | The Ugly American | a small, peaceful kingdom in Southeast Asia, from the 1965 novel The Ugly American by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick. |
Shangri-La | Lost Horizon | a mystical, harmonious valley, enclosed in the western end of the Himalaya in James Hilton's 1933 novel Lost Horizon |
The Shire | The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings | a country in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Mainly inhabited by Hobbits. Its capital is Michel Delving. |
Soviet Unterzoegersdorf | the "last existing appendage republic of the USSR", a country created by monochrom for theatre performances and computer games. | |
Sierra Gordo | G.I. Joe | a South American country often used as a satire of banana republics in the G.I. Joe comic book series published by Marvel Comics. |
Slaka | Rates of Exchange and Why Come to Slaka? | a Balkan communist country in Malcolm Bradbury's Rates of Exchange and its sequel, Why Come to Slaka? |
Sodor | Thomas the Tank Engine | between England and the Isle of Man, the setting for the Reverend Awdry's Thomas the Tank Engine railway network managed by "The Fat Controller" |
Spensonia | an island between "Utopia and Oceana", where English mariners form a communal society. From Thomas Spence's 18th century writings. | |
Squamuglia | The Courier's Tragedy | a duchy ruled by the evil duke Angelo in The Courier's Tragedy, a fictitious Jacobean revenge play by Richard Wharfinger, performed in The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon. |
Strackenz | Royal Flash | a Duchy in the 1970 The Flashman Papers novel Royal Flash. |
Sunda | State of Siege | in Eric Ambler's novel State of Siege, is similar to Indonesia but much smaller, confined to a single island. |
Syldavia | The Adventures of Tintin | Balkan monarchy featured in four stories of The Adventures of Tintin, neighbouring Borduria. |
Sokovia | Marvel Cinematic Universe | A fictional Eastern-European country appearing on the Earth of Marvel Cinematic Universe. Where two Marvel Superheroes Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch reside. |
Sylvania | Duck Soup | belligerent neighbor to Freedonia in the 1933 film Duck Soup |
Svenborgia | 30 Rock | A country only rich people know about 30 Rock |
T
Name | Work | Notes |
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Tazbekistan[19] | Ambassadors | Central Asian republic, setting for the 2013 BBC TV comedy series Ambassadors. |
Tcherkistan | Supercondriaque | East European country from the film Supercondriaque (2014) |
Tecala | Proof of Life | South American country from the film Proof of Life (2000). |
Tirania (also Republic of Tirania) | Mort & Phil, La gran aventura de Mortadelo y Filemón | a country governed by dictator Bruteztrausen; Spanish secret agents Mortadelo and Filemón helped depose Bruteztrausen and president Rompetechen was then elected.[20] Another version of this country appears in the film La gran aventura de Mortadelo y Filemón. |
Trans-Carpathia | G.I. Joe | Eastern-European Cobra stronghold; location of many stories from the G.I. Joe comic book line |
Tomania | The Great Dictator | the setting of Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator, lampooning Nazi Germany. |
Transia | Marvel Comics | a fictional European country on the Earth of the Marvel Universe. |
Tsergovia | Don't Ask | Eastern European country mentioned in Donald E. Westlake's novel Don't Ask |
Tyranistan | San Sombrèro: A Land of Carnivals, Cocktails and Coups | an Asian country and former member of the Soviet Union featured in a parody travel guidebook. |
U
Name | Work | Notes |
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Unaudited Arab Emirates | San Sombrèro: A Land of Carnivals, Cocktails and Coups | parody of the United Arab Emirates in a mock tourist guide. |
United Federation | Papers, Please | A sovereign state in the game Papers, Please by Lucas Pope, which includes the cities of Shingleton, Korista City, and Great Rapid. |
United Islamic Republic | Executive Orders | a nation created by the conquest of Iraq by Iran in Tom Clancy's novel Executive Orders. |
United States of South Africa | 2001: A Space Odyssey | The successor to South Africa after the emigration of most white people and collapse of the economy in 2001: A Space Odyssey. |
Uqbar | Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius | a nation in Asia Minor in Jorge Luis Borges's 1940 short story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius that is fictional within the story. |
Urkesh | Forever | a Eastern European country, former member of USSR in TV series Forever (episode The King of Columbus Circle). |
V
Name | Work | Notes |
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Vadeem | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | state whose Prime Minister gangsters try to kidnap in the episode "Raphael Drives 'em Wild" of 1987 animated TV series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.[21] |
Val Verde | Commando, Predator, Die Hard 2 and Jurassic Attack | Spanish-speaking country resembling Nicaragua, in the films Commando, Predator, Die Hard 2 and Jurassic Attack. |
Vespugia | A Swiftly Tilting Planet and Troubling a Star | Spanish speaking country in the south of South America mentioned in Madeleine L'Engle's A Swiftly Tilting Planet and Troubling a Star |
Votskojek | Don't Ask and Road to Ruin | Eastern European country mentioned in Donald E. Westlake's novels Don't Ask and Road to Ruin |
Vulgaria | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Don't Drink the Water | the far-off, make-believe land in the film version of the children's story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, its name based on Bulgaria. "Vulgaria" is also the tourist destination in Woody Allen's play and film Don't Drink the Water, a country located behind the Iron Curtain. "Vulgaria" is also used as the name of a fictional country in some of Lawrence Durrell's short stories based on the character of Antrobus, a British diplomat. |
W
Name | Work | Notes |
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Wadiya | The Dictator | fictional country in the movie The Dictator located in the Horn of Africa (in the area of Eritrea). |
Wakanda | The Avengers | small African nation featured in the Marvel Comics series The Avengers. The nation is ruled by King T'Challa, also known as the super hero Black Panther. |
West Angola | Scandal | a coastal African nation framed for various terrorist attacks on the United States of America in season 4. Later invaded by the US military after President Fitzgerald Grant is black mailed into doing so. |
West Xylophone | The Alphabet of Nations | a fictional country mentioned in the song "The Alphabet of Nations" by rock duo They Might Be Giants, invented as a stand in, since there are no United Nations Member states whose names begin with "W" or "X". |
Wisdom | The Phantom Tollbooth | a fictional country in Norton Juster's novel The Phantom Tollbooth, where letters and numbers come to life. It has two main cities: Dictionopolis (Word City) and Digitopolis (Number City). |
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Name | Work | Notes |
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Xerxes | Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood anime series | Xerxes (クセルクセス kuserukusesu) (incorrectly romanized as 'Cselkcess' in Viz manga) was an ancient country that existed in the Great Desert to the east of Amestris four hundred years before the start of the series. |
Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood anime series | Xing is a country in the world of Fullmetal Alchemist, located east of the main country of the series, Amestris, across the Eastern Desert. |
Y
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Yellow Empire | Blake and Mortimer | a fascist Asian power in Blake and Mortimer. |
Z
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Zion (The Matrix) | The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions | a fictional reality of earth in The Matrix (franchise) movies. |
Zanzibar Land | Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake | a country bordering the Middle East and, for a time, the only country to possess nuclear weapons in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. |
Zekistan | Full Spectrum Warrior and Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers | Middle Eastern country between Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and Tajikistan in the video game Full Spectrum Warrior and Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers; its history and setting closely resemble Afghanistan's. |
Zamunda | Coming to America | The country of origin for Prince Akeem in the Eddie Murphy film Coming to America (1988). |
Zubrowka | The Grand Budapest Hotel | East European country in Wes Anderson's film The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). |
See also
References
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- ↑ Duriez, Colin (2004). A field guide to Narnia. InterVarsity Press. pp. 168–169. ISBN 0-8308-3207-6.
- 1 2 Garry Trudeau (November 12, 2007), "'It's called Berzerkistan. It shares a 19-mile disputed border with Iran...'", Doonesbury
- ↑ Garry Trudeau (March 10, 2011), "'Almost there, Dawg – we just crossed over into Berzerkistan...'", Doonesbury
- ↑ "The shadow of a Titan, (1910)", American Libraries.
- ↑ Coolfrenchcomics.com
- ↑ Siembieda, K.; Bellaire, C.; Therrien, S.; Ward, T. & Wujcik, E. (August 2005). Rifts Role-Playing Game, Ultimate Edition. Taylor, MI: Palladium Books. pp. 24–31. ISBN 1-57457-150-8.
- ↑ Fugue State Press
- ↑ King, Frank O. (2010). Walt and Skeezix, 1927–1928 4. Montreal: Drawn and Quarterly. p. 1927 July 27, August 2, October 24. ISBN 978-1-897299-39-5.
- ↑ "Is Ishbal based on or inspired by the Holocaust?". Stack Exchange: Anime and Manga. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
- ↑ Wemple, Erik (2015-01-08). "New York Times invents ‘Kyrzbekistan’". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2015-01-09.
- ↑ "Episode 29 on www.ninjaturtles.com". Mirage Studios. 29 December 2009.
- ↑ Siembieda, K.; Bellaire, C.; Therrien, S.; Ward, T. & Wujcik, E. (August 2005). Rifts Role-Playing Game, Ultimate Edition. Taylor, MI: Palladium Books. p. 16. ISBN 1-57457-150-8.
- ↑ "U.S. Intelligence: Nukehavistan May Have Nuclear Weapons", The Onion, Issue 41, 33, August 17, 2005.
- ↑ "Jennifer Lawrence Comes from District 12 (Haymitch Comes from Texas)". Ancestry.com.
- ↑ "Panem Map".
- ↑ David Caute, Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic, Yale University Press, 2013, p. 163.
- ↑ Community.discovery.com
- ↑ BBC TV website for Ambassadors
- ↑ (Spanish) El sulfato atómico in La página no oficial de Mortadelo y Filemón
- ↑ "Episode 101 on www.ninjaturtles.com". Mirage Studios. 21 January 2012.
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