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• Absurdistan – sometimes used to satirically describe a country where everything goes wrong

The heat death of the universe is a cosmological subclass of the fundamental epistemological concept of twink death. It posits that the universe will evolve to a state of no thermodynamic free energy, and will therefore be unable to sustain processes that increase entropy. Heat death does not imply any particular absolute temperature; it only requires that temperature differences or other processes may no longer be exploited to perform work. In the language of physics, this is when the universe reaches thermodynamic equilibrium.

Name	Flag	Work	Notes
Chula, Republic of		Mort & Phil	Parody of Chile. South American country ruled by dictator Antofagasto Panocho (a parody of Augusto Pinochet), whom Mort and Phil are sent to kill.

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Name	Flag	Work	Notes
Belgistan			fictional Middle Eastern country in the anime Gasaraki.
Helmajistan			fictional area from the anime Full Metal Panic!.
Chinese Federation		Code Geass	Monarchy comprising the entirety of East (except Japan), South, and Central Asia. Its capital is located in Luoyang, and is controlled by an emperor (who serves more as a symbolic head of state) and a council of eight eunuchs.
Achu, Kingdom of		Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir (2016)	A monarchic country located in a tropical climate. Home of Prince Ali. First mentioned in the episode "Princess Fragrance".
Diamantara, Republic of		Michiko & Hatchin	South American nation inspired by Brazil.
Franbel		Science Ninja Team Gatchaman	01 "Gatchaman Versus Turtle King" 11 "The Mysterious Red Impulse" 19 "Speed Race from Hell" 35 "Burn, Desert Fires" 43 "A Romance Destroyed By Evil" 46 "Gatchaman in the Valley of Death" 50 "Trachadon, the Dinosaur Skeleton" 51 "Cata-Roller, the Revolving Beast" 52 "Red Impulse's Secret" 53 "Farewell Red Impulse" 54 "Gatchaman Burns with Rage" 56 "The Bird Missile of Bitterness" 61 "The Phantom Red Impulse" 64 "A Christmas Present of Death" 66 "The Devil's Fashion Show" 69 "The Cemetery in the Moonlight" 77 "The Successful Berg Katse" 80 "Come Back! Boomerang"
Doria Kingdom		Science Ninja Team Gatchaman
Shosken Kingdom		Science Ninja Team Gatchaman
Wale		Science Ninja Team Gatchaman	Country in South Africa, filled with poverty and plagued by a famine.
Congol		Science Ninja Team Gatchaman
Indelhia		Science Ninja Team Gatchaman
Assham		Science Ninja Team Gatchaman
Amehon		Science Ninja Team Gatchaman
Bien		Science Ninja Team Gatchaman
Amerishima		Science Ninja Team Gatchaman

BOOKS

Name	Flag	Work	Notes
Hav		Last Letters from Hav	independent country in the Eastern Mediterranean, described in an epistolary novel by Jan Morris.
Dahomalia		Stand on Zanzibar	African nation created by merging of Dahomey, Upper Volta and Mali.
Beninia		Stand on Zanzibar (1968)	African nation that aspires to become a first world country.
Republican Union of Nigeria and Ghana		Stand on Zanzibar	African country formed by merging of Nigeria and Ghana.
Yatakang		Stand on Zanzibar	Former Dutch colony located in South East Asia. Inspired by Indonesia.
Axphain		Graustark (1901)	Neighbor of Graustark in several novels.
Graustark		Various Works	Eastern European country in several novels by George Barr McCutcheon.
Dawsbergen		Novels by George Barr McCutcheon	Country in Eastern Europe mentioned in several novels by author George Barr McCutcheon.
Almaigne		The Alteration by Kingsley Amis (1976)	A monarchy with Emperor at the throne, located in Central Europe, which united German speaking states. It is based on German Empire, though its borders do not match those of real Germany.
New England, Republic of		The Alteration	An alternate reality where Henry VIII never became King and Martin Luther and Thomas More became Pope, Protestantism was limited to the breakaway republic. The secular head is the First Citizen (Joseph Rudyard Kipling is mentioned as First Citizen, serving from 1914 to 1918) and the head of the 'schismatic' church is the Archpresbytor of Arnoldstown. Also mentioned is New England's war against Louisiana and Mexico from 1848 to 1850 (with Edgar Allan Poe as a leading general), its technological and scientific advance over the Papal jurisdiction, its productions of banned Shakespeare plays and its practice of 'separateness' against Native Americans.
Alsander, Kingdom of		King of Alsander by James Elroy Flecker (1914)	A kingdom in the Southern Europe
Annexia, Interzone, Abyssinia		Naked Lunch (1959)	European country, inspired by Soviet Russia.
Vespugia		A Swiftly Tilting Planet, 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
Arnovia		Taylor & Rose Secret Agents: Peril in Paris by Katherine Woodfine (2018)	Small country between Switzerland, the German Empire, and Austria-Hungary in 1911
Averna, Principality of		Sweet Danger by Margery Allingham (1933)	An oil-rich principality on the Adriatic Sea
Brungaria		Tom Swift, Jr.	Eastern European dictatorship similar to the Soviet Union, in the Tom Swift, Jr. series.
Socialist Democratic Republic of Corteguay		Tom Clancy's Net Force Explorers: The Ultimate Escape	South American country located in an island in the Pacific Ocean. Totalitarian state. Capital city is named "Adello". Obtained independence in 2005.
Carpathian Republic		Tom Clancy's Net Force Explorers: The Great Race	Balkan authoritarian and militaristic country under an embargo. Its political ideology is a mix of Nazism and communism. It uses the Cyrillic alphabet.
Costaguana & Sulaco		Nostromo	South American country under a dictatorship, based on Colombia
Shangri-La		Lost Horizon	Mystical, harmonious valley, enclosed in the western end of the Himalaya in James Hilton's 1933 novel.
Etchechuria		The Stolen March	Lost Pyrenean country lying between France and Spain where nursery rhyme characters come to life.
Grinlandia		Novels by Alexander Grin	Name of the country is never mentioned by the author himself, and the name Grinlandia was suggested in 1934 by literary critic Korneliy Zelinsky.
Erewhon		Erewhon	Country satirizing aspects of Victorian society.
Samavia		The Lost Prince	Eastern European kingdom in Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel.
Bolumbia		The Shadow of a Titan	South American dictatorship, from Felix Wedgwood's novel.
Borostyria		Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar	Balkan principality modeled on Montenegro.
Bouazizi Empire		American War	Empire made up of a multitude of failed Middle Eastern and North African states in the late 21st century; influences the Second American Civil War by trying to prolong it
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).
Poictesme		Biography of the Life of Manuel	Country situated roughly in the south of France in the books of James Branch Cabell.
Polrugaria		The Tragic Life of a Polrugarian Minister	Archetypal Communist-ruled country, "heavily modelled on Poland" in Isaac Deutscher's 1952 essay "The Tragic Life of a Polrugarian Minister".
Krassnia		The Restoration Game	Country based on South Ossetia located in the Caucasus and republic of the Soviet Union in the Caucasus that declared independence with the dissolution of the Soviet Union from the 2010 science fiction/techno-thriller novel The Restoration Game by Ken MacLeod. The novel's protagonist, Lucy Stone, is a computer programmer who grew up in Krassnia when it was still part of the Soviet Union. At the time of the novel's setting in 2008, she is working for a videogame company in Edinburgh, Scotland. Stone's mother, commissions her company to create an MMORPG based on Krassnian mythology which leads into the rest of the novel's plot. MacLeod was originally going to set his novel in the near future but was forced to change it when the Russo-Georgian War happened in August 2008 while he was writing it which not only brought the real South Ossetia to international attention (he wanted someplace obscure for Lucy Stone's homeland) but also made certain events in the book impossible, and was therefore now set in 2008, sometime before August that year.
Zembla		Pale Fire	"Distant northern land" whose deposed king the narrator weaves into a critical apparatus; possibly based on Novaya Zemlya.
San Lorenzo The Republic of		Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle	A tiny, rocky island nation. The country's form of government is a dictatorship, under the rule of ailing president "Papa" Monzano, who is a staunch ally of the United States and a fierce opponent of communism. Its capital is the seaside city Bolivar. Its language is a fictitious English-based creole language
North Darrar		Borderlines	African nation in the Horn of Africa-based on Eritrea in the legal thriller novel, Borderlines by Michela Wrong. The capital city is called Lira. North Darrar neighbours the Federal Republic of Darrar and has fought a war against it over a border dispute based on the Eritrean–Ethiopian War.
Orsinia		Orsinian Tales, Malafrena	Central European country similar to Czechoslovakia or Hungary, the focus of Ursula K. Le Guin's Orsinian Tales and the novel Malafrena.

TV

Name	Flag	Work	Notes
Gran Colombian Empire		The Last Ship (TV Series)	A growing coalition of South American nations that seeks to rival/surpass the United States as a superpower. It serves as the main antagonistic force of the final season.
Kambezi		MacGyver	Southern African country, located near Zimbabwe. It is home of a huge population of black rhinos which is approaching extinction due to poachers. It is also a military dictatorship and relies heavily on dagga exports.
Kabulstan		MacGyver	very hostile third world country that does not like strangers
Caledonia		Scandal	European monarchy featured in the season 5 premiere episode which bears strong similarities to the United Kingdom.
West Angola		Scandal	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 blackmailed into doing so.
Kashfar		Scandal	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.
Tyrgyzstan		The State Within	in the BBC television drama
Baracas		CSI: Miami (2002-2012)	Pro-American South American country which supports the torture teams of the U.S. force in the region.
Tescara		CSI: NY	Atlantic island mentioned in the TV series CSI: NY by Jerry Bruckheimer. According to the show, this nation joined the UN in 1991 and is a free-trade port.
Pacific States of America		The Man in the High Castle	A puppet state governed by the Empire of Japan, consisting of the West Coast of the United States along with Alaska and Hawaii. Its capital is Sacramento. In the television series, it is depicted as an occupied province called the Japanese Pacific States, also occupying parts of British Columbia.
Rocky Mountains States		The Man in the High Castle	De facto buffer zone between the Japanese-allied Pacific States of America and the Nazi satellite United States with its capital based in Canon City. In the novel, the R.M.S. is depicted as a sovereign nation situated between California and the Mississippi River. However, in the television series, it is a 'Neutral Zone' based solely along the Rockies. Effectively an anarchistic, libertarian society, the Neutral Zone acts as a refuge for Nazi or Japanese targets but being subject to Nazi or Japanese agents.
Sangala		24	Western African republic and former French colony, it is said to share a border with the Republic of Congo. The democratic government led by Prime Minister Ule Matobo is overthrown in a coup by General Benjamin Juma of the Peoples Freedom Army in 24: Redemption. It is later invaded by the United States military in 24: Season 7 after the Juma regime begins to engage in genocide. The capital city is Mali Baso, and other notable locations include Sangala City and Kasanga Province.
Patusan		Various	Island nation somewhere in the South China Sea in: Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad NOT REALLY A COUNTRY, ALTHOUGH SHOULD BE MENTIONED AS SOURCE FOR OTHERS film The Last Electric Knight TV series Sidekicks.
Zephyria		Son of Zorn	East European country in Fox's 2016 show.
Tajinkistan		Lol:-)	Central Asian country, shown in the Canadian TV show Lol:-).
United States of America		Watchmen	Alternative United States that won the Vietnam War and annexed Vietnam, turning it into the 51st state due to the superpowered use of Doctor Manhattan in the war. In the Watchmen TV series, as of 2019, the country is shown to have abolished presidential term limits, redesigned the flag, incorporated other Southeast Asian countries (such as Thailand) as "commonwealths", and instituted a system of reparations for slavery for African-Americans.
Turmezistan		SOME MISSING	a fictional country in Doctor Who.
Val Verde		Predator	Spanish-speaking country in the film Predator.
San Marcos		Archer Vice MacGyver Vivir Para Ti	Latin American banana republic.
Marivella Islands		Tales of the Gold Monkey	South Pacific volcanic chain consisting of hundreds of mysterious and tropical islands featured in the 1982 adventure television series and now described as the Republic of the Marivelles.
Kumranistan		Yes, Prime Minister	Central Asian Islamic republic from the 2013 remake of Yes, Prime Minister, formerly part of the British Empire and a Soviet Socialist Republic; 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.
Qumran (Kumrahn)		Yes Minister	Arabic oil sheikhdom.
Buranda		Yes Minister	Developing African country, formerly known as British Equatorial Africa.
Saint George's Island		Yes, Prime Minister	Island nation located somewhere in the Arabian Sea. It was the centrepoint of the episode "A Victory for Democracy". A parliamentary republic and a Commonwealth member state, the island was on the verge of a communist coup.

MOVIES

Name	Flag	Work	Notes
Sakhovia		Final Score	Breakaway state located in North Caucasus, Russia. Tried to become independent with a war in 1999.
Gohet Gostan		Tiga Abdul
Jazeristan		The Misfits
Krakozhia, Republic of		The Terminal	Slavic Eastern European country from the 2004 film. During the events of the film, civil war breaks out and is resolved in 9 months.
Vosnia		State Secret	European dictatorship in a 1950 film starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Vulgaria		Don't Drink the Water	tourist destination in Woody Allen's play and film Don't Drink the Water, a country located behind the Iron Curtain.
Saint Heron, Republic of		Rage to Kill (1988 film)	Beautiful caribbean island nation.
Pontenero		Bombs on Monte Carlo (1931 film)	This musical comedy focuses on a warship from Pontenero.
Bandara		Abdullah the Great (1955)	Fictional version of King Farouk's Egypt.
Boa Vista		Gunmen	Cocaine-producing South American country. Its capital city is Boa Vista City.
Pendrang		The 1946 Universal movie serial Lost City of the Jungle	Small Himalayan nation bordering China ruled by a dictatorial casino heiress. Capital city is Zalabar.
Congotanga		Congo Crossing	Congotanga, West Africa, has no extradition laws; the government is controlled by foreign gangsters
Panem		The Hunger Games	check books
North Africa, Republic of		Counterforce	Arab nationalist of the Mediterranean Sea. Closely analogous to Libya.
Maldonia		The Princess and the Frog	Fictional country named mixed with Maldives and Macedonia.
San Miguel		Firewalker	Central American country located in the Yucatan peninsula.
Scandinavia		Ransom aka The Terrorists	Scandinavian country inspired by Norway.

EXTERNAL

Name	Flag	Work	Notes
Urk (also Uruk)		Descendants of the Sun	War-torn Mediterranean country monitored by the United Nations. The South Korean government provides peacekeeping forces and private hospitals send volunteer medical teams.

UNAVAILABLE

Name	Flag	Work	Notes
Val Verde		Supercarrier	Spanish-speaking country in ONE EP OF the TV series Supercarrier.
San Marco		Bourbon Street Beat	Latin American banana republic IN "Green Hell" AND "Last Exit"
Val Verde		Supercarrier	Spanish-speaking country in the TV series Supercarrier.
Santhoma		Your Friendly Neighborhood Death Peddler	Country in Jimmy Sangster's novel, located on the west coast of South America. It extends a total of one hundred and eighty miles from north to south and reaches its maximum breadth of fifty miles from east to west. It is bordered to the west by the Pacific Ocean and to the north, east and south by an extensive range of mountains which effectively cuts it off from the rest of the Latin American continent. The capital is called Canstartisville and is located on the coast about halfway between the north and south borders. Its president is Miguel Canstartis
Krastava		The Mourner	Small central European country, located between Czechoslovakia and Poland.
Sulvania		Prisoner of Swing (1937)	Central European monarchy where swing music is banned. This is a parody of the fictional country Zenda from The Prisoner of Zenda. UNAVAILABLE
Crashbania		The Bad Barons of Crashbania and other books by Norman Hunter	UNAVAILABLE
Acquasorgiva		Acquasorgiva by Mura (1939)	A city built around a spring on top of a mountain near the sea in the Central African colony of the Fascist Italy. UNAVAILABLE
Nevoruss		Breath of the Past, Russ we hadn't known about	Powerful state in the north of Russia and America created by Russian writer Grigoriy Demidovtsev. In the Breath of the Past and Russ we hadn't known about, Demidovtsev depicts a fictional European country named Nevoruss. "Nevoruss" is the Russian word for "Neva Russ", literally "Russ at the Neva river". Nevoruss is considered to be a successor state of the medieval Novgorod Republic. It managed to avoid Muscovite conquest in the 15th century and due to commercial activity of its inhabitants continued to thrive. Thus Russia had never united, so its place shares Nevoruss and Muscovy. Their opposition resembles that of Jesusland and the United States of Canada. Besides Russian territories Nevoruss due to its early colonial expansion also controlled the Baltic states, Scandinavia with Iceland and Greenland, some parts of North America (including Alaska and the whole Canada) as well as some important islands (among them Cuba, Canaries and Hawaiian Islands). UNAVAILABLE
United Socialist States of America		Back in the USSA	UNAVAILABLE
Zindawba	"Beloved Bonds". by F.E. Campbell	Dishonored	An African republic whose ruler and first president, Khalief Abhad, abuses two girls. UNAVAILABLE
Timbuktu, Republic of		The Lousy World	Country mentioned in the episode "Kiepski prezydent". In the episode, Ferdynant Kiepski, the main character of the show, is chosen to be the president of the country, after its citizens saw his election campaign during his failed run for the office of the President of Poland UNAVAILABLE

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Africa

Countries

African Empire - Poul Anderson's "Ghetto" in William F. Nolan's short story collection A Wilderness of Stars

Afrikaribesia - Enoch Ajunwa's novel Unknown Destination

Afro-European Federation - Robert A. Heinlein's novel Time for the Stars

Coptic Union - John C. Wright's novel Count to a Trillion, p. 184

Azania - John C. Wright's novel Count to a Trillion, p. 184

Republic of Dongo - Dambisa Moyo's nonfiction book Dead Aid

Federal Africa - M.J. Locke's novel Up Against It, p. 162

Ishmaelia - Evelyn Waugh's novel Scoop

Kamanga - Chris Ryan's novel Tenth Man Down

Ken-Tan-Moz - Ben Jeapes's novel Phoenicia's World

Kingdom of Katanga - David Brin's novel Existence, p. 409

Republic of Kikaya - Larry Viven and Steven Barnes's novel The Moon Maze Game

Mancala - James Lilliefors's novel Viral, p. 217

Buttata - James Lilliefors's novel Viral, pp. 4, 217

Republic of Sundiata - James Lilliefors's novel Viral, pp. 8, 217

Republic of Masada (Madagascar) - Christopher Priest's novel The Separation

New Harare - Kim Stanley Robinson's novel 2312, pp. 374-387

New Zimbabwe - Kim Stanley Robinson's novel 2312, p. 387

PanAfrica - Robert A. Heinlein's novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Rhodesia (future sovereign fragment of contemporary Zimbabwe) - Kim Stanley Robinson's novel 2312, p. 387

Ruratania (sub-Saharan Africa) - Richard Rottenburg's nonfiction book Far-Fetched Facts description from MIT Press

Shurga - Anthony Burgess's novel Devil of a State, pp. 30, 38

Trognika - Anthony Burgess's novel Devil of a State, p. 105

Naraka - Anthony Burgess's novel Devil of a State, pp. 38, 105

Dunia (East African Caliphate), a.k.a. Daru-i-riszwan or (Abode of Grace) - Anthony Burgess' novel Devil of a State

Unnamed country with base in equatorial Africa that carries out nuclear attack on the United States in the Cold War scenario "The 36-Hour War," Life November 19, 1945. Vol. 19, No. 21. source

Antarctic

Cities and Towns

City of the Invalidated Past - James Morrow's novel This is the Way the World Ends, p. 135

Arctic

Countries

• Thule - Tobias S, Buckell's novel Arctic Rising
• Polario - One Way to Get Russia Right Moscow Times. August 26, 2012.

Australia

Ross City - Gregory Benford's short story "The Scarred Man," Venture May 1970

North America

States and territories

Alderney - Grand Theft Auto video games series

Alleghany - John Barnes's novel Daybreak Zero, Daybreak series

American Centaurian - Gini Koch's novel Alien Tango

Calisota' - Duck universe in various Walt Disney comic books

Catawba - Thomas Wolfe's novel Look Homeward, Angel

Chesepeake - John Barnes's novel Daybreak Zero, Daybreak series: Green Idaho (northern half of Idaho after its partition) - Greg Bear's novel Heads, p. 48

Euphoria - David Lodge's novel Changing Places

Fremont - James A. Michener's novel Space

Heavensylvania - "4th of July Under Attack" episode of Colbert Report, June 30, 2009

Hohoq (a.k.a. Ar) - comedian John Hodgman's The Areas of My Expertise.

Lost Quarter - John Barnes's novel Daybreak Zero, Daybreak series

Malebolgia - Minuet in Hell episodes of Doctor Who

Manhattan - James Blish's short story "A Work of Art" in Science Fiction Stories July 1956

Mercer - Motorama 1991 film

L Mexifornia - Bordertown television series

Mikewa - Anthony Trollope's novel The American Senator

Missitucky - Finian's Rainbow 1947 Broadway musical

Moosylvania - The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show television series

New England - John Barnes's novel Daybreak Zero, Daybreak series

New Delaware - Daily Sow With John Stewart episode of January 16th, 2013

Federal District of Sitka - Michael Chabon's novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Superior - John Barnes's novel Daybreak Zero, Daybreak series

Statesota - Moral Orel Adult Swim television series

United Rockies Emirates - A Wry Look at the Presidential Election, Year 2024 Steve Bodow. Wired. 16:3 March 3, 2008.

Wabash - John Barnes's novel Daybreak Zero, Daybreak series

Waldensia - Kingley Amis's novel The Alteration, p. 201

Winnemac - Sinclair Lewis's novels

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Countries

American Union - Larry Viven and Steven Barnes's novel The Moon Maze Game

Archdiocese of Florida - Chris Roberson's Further: Beyond the Threshold

Atlantic Union - Norman Spinrad's novel The Men in the Jungle

Aristopia - Costello Holford's novel Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World

Blueland (island near Hawaii) - RIMPAC 98 (international maritime training exercise)

California Republic - Colin Harvey's novel Damage Time

Central - "Inside Probe" episodes of NBC television series My Name is Earl

Christian Federation of American States - M.J. Locke's novel Up Against It, p. 161

Cilenia - Karl Schroeder's "To Hie From Far Cilenia, in John Scalzi's short story collection Metatropolis

Commonwealth of American States - Arthur C. Clarke's novel 'The Hammer of God

Deseret - Chris Roberson's Further: Beyond the Threshold

Ecotopia - Ernest Callenbach's novels Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston and Ecotopia Emerging

Efficistan - Steve Vanderheiden's nonfiction book Atmospheric Justice: A Political Theory of Climate Change

Empire of the Americas - Poul Anderson's "The Communicators," a short story in Robert Hoskin's collection Infinity One

Great Asia - Poul Anderson's "The Communicators," a short story in Robert Hoskin's collection Infinity One

Norrestand - Poul Anderson's "The Communicators," a short story in Robert Hoskin's collection Infinity One

Empire of the Americas - Poul Anderson's "The Communicators," a short story in Robert Hoskin's collection Infinity One

Midafrica - Poul Anderson's "The Communicators," a short story in Robert Hoskin's collection Infinity One

Domination of Baikal - Poul Anderson's "The Communicators," a short story in Robert Hoskin's collection Infinity One

Christian States of America - Matt Ruff's novel The Mirage, pp. 235-237

United Arab States - Matt Ruff's novel The Mirage

Pentocostal Gilead Heartland - Matt Ruff's novel The Mirage

Kingdom of Louisiana - Matt Ruff's novel The Mirage, pp. 235-237

Isreal - Matt Ruff's novel The Mirage

Evangelical Republic of Texas - Matt Ruff's novel The Mirage, pp. 235-237

Kingdom of Mississippi - Matt Ruff's novel The Mirage, pp. 235-237

Rocky Mountain Independent Territories - Matt Ruff's novel The Mirage (Homage to Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle?)

Federated States of the Western Hemisphere - Douglas R. Mason's novel Matrix

Free City of Boulder - Dale Pendell's 2010 novel The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse, p. 128

Grand Duchy of Hallifax - John Barnes's novel The Last President, p. 351

Haijac Union - Philip José Farmer's novel The Lovers

Higher Novo Mexico - Gregory Benford's nonfiction book Deep Time

Free State of Chihuahua - Gregory Benford's nonfiction book Deep Time

Icaria - The Zeno Narrative

Frisland - The Zeno Narrative

Drogeo - The Zeno Narrative

Engroeneland (probably Greenland) - The Zeno Narrative

Estotiland - The Zeno Narrative

Janitoria - Scrubs You Tube

Mecha (ruled by and for androids) - Madeline Ashby's novel vN, p. 67

Normeroca - Poul Anderson's short story "SOS" in his collection Dialogue With Darkness

Northwest Union - Robert A. Heinlein's Beyond This Horizon

Oceania - George Orwell's novel 1984

Omerta - Katy Stauber's novel Revolution World

Opium - Nancy Farmer's novel The House of the Scorpion

Orangeland (island near Hawaii) - RIMPAC 98 (international maritime training exercise)

Pacifica - Chris Roberson's Further: Beyond the Threshold

People's Republic of America - Invasion USA 1952 film

People's Republic of the Northeast - John C. Wright's novel Count to a Trillion

Pollutia - Steve Vanderheiden's nonfiction book Atmospheric Justice: A Political Theory of Climate Change

Real America - John Barnes' novel Candle

Republic of Gilead - Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale

Republic of Hawaii/Free State of Hawaii - Robert A. Heinlein's novel Revolt in 2100

Reunited States - Dale Pendell's 2010 novel The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse, p. 128

Salmon Nation - Ecotrust NGO conception of the Pacific Northwest

Shasta-Tehachapi California Confederation - Dale Pendell's 2010 novel The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse, p. 47

Socialist Union of American States - Maureen F. McHugh's novel China Mountain Zhang

Technate of North America - Mack Reynolds' novel The Cosmic Eye

Western Hemisphere Union - Allen Steele's novel Coyote Rising, Coyote universe

United America Mack Reynolds' novel Commune 2000 A.D.

United Republic of America - Allen Steele's novel Coyote Rising, Coyote universe

United States of North America (U.S.N.A.) - Robert A. Heinlein and Spider Robinson's novel Variable Star

United Vassal States of America - Otto Basil's novel Wenn dad der Fürher wusste (If Only the Fürher Knew)

Zona Infectada - indie film

Other

York Basin - James Blish and Norman L. Knight's novel A Torrent of Faces

Islands

New South Greenland

South America and Caribbean

Countries

Bolivarian Federation - Lee Konstantinou's novel Pop Apocalypse, p. 59

Brazilian Union - Robert A. Heinlein's novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Costaguana - Juan Gabriel Vasquez's novel The Secret History of Costaguana ACTUALLY JUST PANAMA

Costaguana - Michael Taussig's non-fiction? The Magic of the State

Greater Brazil - Paul McAuley's novel The Quiet War and Evening's Empire, page 31

Estados Unidos de Sud - Robert A. Heinlein's novel Time for the Stars

Latinum - Max Ehrlich's novel The Edict

Euroasia - Max Ehrlich's novel The Edict

Europa - Max Ehrlich's novel The Edict

Federated Orinet Republics - Max Ehrlich's novel The Edict

Can-Am States - Max Ehrlich's novel The Edict

African Complex - Max Ehrlich's novel The Edict

Macondo - Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude

Mayapan - Adrienne V. Parks's novel Acts of God

Multinational Territory of Germany (former Brazilian states of Pernambuco and Rio Grande do Norte) - Ignacio de Loyola Brandao's novel And Still the Earth

New Bolivar - Robert A. Heinlein's novel Beyond This Horizon

Republic of Vieques - October 17, 1962 U.S. Military Training Exercise for the invasion of Cuba (Source: Alex von Tunzelmann's 2011 Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean)

San Theodoros - Hergé's cartoon Tintin and the Picaros

Southern Hemisphere League - John Barnes's Million Open Doors series novels: A Million Open Doors, brief reference

Tecala - Taylor Holden's novel Proof of Life

East Asia, Southeast Asia and Australasia

Countries

Agartha - Buddhist legend

Arcadia - Cobra Gold 2009 joint Thai-American military exercise

Australasian Republic - Robert A. Heinlein's novel Tunnel in the Sky

Autarchy of Great Asia - Poul Anderson's short story "SOS" in his collection Dialogue With Darkness

Basicland - Basically, It's Over hypothetical island in an economic essay

Dahanga - Anthony Burgess' novel The Enemy in the Blankets

Democratic Republic of China - Paul McAuley's novel The Quiet War

Eastern Federation - Casshern 2004 film

Europa - Casshern 2004 film

Zone Seven (probably in Central Asia) - Casshern 2004 film

Empire of the Great Khan - Robert A. Heinlein's novel Beyond This Horizon

Erewhon (presumably New Zealand) - Samuel Butler's novels Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited

Eurasian Coalition - David J. Williams' novel The Machinery of Light

Kingdon of Agharti (religious, subterranean realm of the King of the World) - Ferdinand Ossendowski's Beasts, Men and Gods non-fiction book citation

Grand Society of China - Poul Anderson's short story "A Man to My Wounding," in his collection The Horn of Time

Great Asia Republic - Robert A. Heinlein's novel The Door Into Summer

Great China - Norman Spinrad's novel The Men in the Jungle

Great China - Robert A. Heinlein's novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Greater Manchuria - John C. Wright's novel Count to a Trillion, p. 184

Pala - Aldous Huxley's utopian novel Island (inspiration for the Brotherhood of Eternal Love)

Panasia - Poul Anderson's short story "Epilogue," in his collection Explorations

Pan-Asian Republic - Colin Harvey's novel Damage Time

Pacific Community - Paul McAuley's novel The Quiet War

People's Republic of North China - Scott Mackay's novel Omega Sol

Republic of Shanghai - A Wry Look at the Presidential Election, Year 2024 Steve Bodow. Wired. 16:3. March 3, 2008

Republic of Wine - Mo Yan's novel Republic of Wine

Siberian Republic - Gregory Benford's novel Eater, p. 282

United Asia - John Barnes's Million Open Doors series novels

Yatakang - John Brunner's novel Stand on Zanzibar

South Asia

Countries

Beneghal - Poul Anderson's "Progress," a short story in his collection The Horn of Time

Pankot - Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom 1984 film

Raspur - What's Up, Tiger Lily? 1966 Woody Allen film

Pacific

Islands

Enika Atoll (Marshall Islands) - Kevin J. Anderson's Ground Zero, an X Files novel

Sangar Island - Robert Sheckley's novel The Journey of Joenes

Skin Island - Jessica Khoury's novel Vitro'

Countries

• Equatorial New Guinea - Aloha 2015 film

Macronesia - "Asassinanny" episode of Venture Bros.

Maurai Federation - Poul Anderson's "Progress," a short story in his collection The Horn of Time

Europe

Islands

Caspiar (located in the Caspian Sea) - homeland of comedian Andy Kaufman's character Foreign Man

Diavolino (Lake Trasimeno, Italy) - Horror novel Diavolino by Steve Emmett

Merodia (archipelago in Lagodo)- Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR) 2002 Exercize

Countries

Astarkh Republic - David R. George III's Star Trek: The Original Series novel Allegiance in Exile

Bacteria - The Great Dictator 1940 Charlie Chaplin film

Balta - Evan Mandery's novel First Contact: Or, Its Later Than You Think. pp. 188, 214

Borduria - Hergé's Tintin and the Picaros

Borgravia - Norman Spinrad's The Iron Dream (note the novel within the novel structure)

Burgundy (real region but fictional independent country) - Brad Linaweaver's novella Moon of Ice

Castalia - Hermann Hesse's novel Magister Ludi: The Glass Bead Game

Common Europe - Mack Reynolds' novel Commune 2000 A.D.

Common Europe - John Brunner's novel Stand on Zanzibar

Duchy of Grand Fenwick - The Mouse that Roared 1959 film

Eurasia - George Orwell's novel 1984

Euro Universe - Code Geass anime universe

EuroFreezone - David Brin's novel Existence, p. 45

European Alliance - Allen Steele's novel Coyote Rising, Coyote universe

Eurore Division - Brian W. Aldiss's novel Bow Down to Nul

Free State of Bohemia - Dale Pendell's 2010 novel The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse, p. 124

Galway Republic - John Barnes's novel The Last President, p. 351

Gazira-ul-Ragul (renamed and Islamized Isle of Man) - Anthony Burgess' essay/dystopian novella 1985, p. 243

Greatbrit Division - Brian W. Aldiss's novel Bow Down to Nul

Greater Soviet Union - Norman Spinrad's novel The Men in the Jungle

High Republic of Heldon - Norman Spinrad's The Iron Dream (note the novel within the novel structure)

Holy Islamic Caliphate of Iraq - Dad From 2150 Can’t Get Enough Iraq War Documentaries parody in The Onion March 13, 2014

Jewish Free State (Balkans) - Stephen Fry's alternative history within a novel Making History

Kingdom of the Azores - John Barnes's novel The Last President, p. 351

Lagodo - Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR) 2002 Exercize

Luvania - trick question in One.Tel. 2004 public opinion survey

Macedonion Free State - Poul Anderson's "Marius," a short story in his collection The Horn of Time

Meccania - Owen Gregory's novel Meccania: the Super-State

Luniland - Owen Gregory's novel Meccania: the Super-State

Franconia - Owen Gregory's novel Meccania: the Super-State

Lugubria - Owen Gregory's novel Meccania: the Super-State

Northern Union (northern Europe) - Gwynne Dyer's nonfiction Climate Wars, p. 1

Padania (northern Italian peninsula) - Gwynne Dyer's nonfiction Climate Wars, p. 1

Pottsylvania - The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle 2000 film

Relinesia - MILEX 09 EU Exercise

Republic of Scotland - Ken MacLeod's novel The Night Sessions, p. 73

Rhodania - MILEX 09 EU Exercise

Russlavic Federation - Charles E. Gannon's novel Fire With Fire, p. 594

Schlaraffia - myth described in John Waller's nonfiction The Dancing Plague, p. 31

Slaka - Malcolm Bradbury's sendup Why Come to Slaka?: The Official Guide to an Imaginary, Mysteriously Mobile Piece of Europe

States of Europe - Brian Aldiss' novel Earthworks

Waterberg State - Brian W. Aldiss's novel Earthworks

New Angola - Brian W. Aldiss' novel Earthworks

Australia-Zealand - Brian Aldiss' novel Earthworks

Soviet Complex - Mack Reynolds' novel Commune 2000 A.D.

Sycambia - Randolph Robban's Si l'Allemagne avait vainu

Trobokistan - former Soviet satellite state in Totally Spies! television series

United Federation of Britain - Total Recall 2012 remake of the adequate 1990 film adaptation

United Free Europe - Poul Anderson's "Marius," a short story in his collection The Horn of Time

Universal State - Karin Boye's novel Kallocain

Wolack - Norman Spinrad's The Iron Dream (note the novel within the novel structure)

Worldstate - Karin Boye's novel Kallocain

Zembla - Vladimir Nabakov's novel (or collection of cantos) Pale Fire

Zind - Norman Spinrad's The Iron Dream (note the novel within the novel structure)

Unnamed country where Esperanto is the national language - Idiot's Delight 1939 film

Middle East and Central Asia

Cities and Towns

Baleb (capital of Azaran) - Fred Hoyle and John Elliot's novel Andromeda Breakthrough

Wadi al-Uyoun - Abdelrahman Munif's novel Cities of Salt

Hirbet Hizah (fictional Palestinian village destroyed in the Naqba) - S. Yizhar's "The Story of Hirbet Hizah."

Countries

Azaran (Muslim Middle East oil state) - Fred Hoyle and John Elliot's novel Andromeda Breakthrough

Federation of Imamates - Lee Konstantinou's novel Pop Apocalypse

TransArabian Caliphates - Lee Konstantinou's novel Pop Apocalypse

Hamiya - Amjad Nasser's novel Land of No Rain

Islamic Republic of Arabia - Gwynne Dyer's nonfiction Climate Wars, p. 2

Israeli Republics - Philip José Farmer's novel The Lovers

Mooran - Abdelrahman Munif's novel The Trench

Tallstoria (ruled by Persia) - Thomas More's novel Utopia

Tebarou - Brian Aldiss' novel Super-State

Turaqistan - War, Inc. 2008 film

Ugigistan - War, Inc. 2008 film

Yisroel (Yiddish speaking) - Michael Chabon's essay "Guidebook to a Land of Ghosts" Harper's October 1997 and also an addendum to his novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Uncertain Regional Location

Cities

Marwencol - Marwencol 2010 film

Satirev - James Morrow's 1990 novel City of Truth

Urbania, Normland - Richard Rottenburg's nonfiction book Far-Fetched Facts description from MIT Press

Veritas - James Morrow's 1990 novel City of Truth

Descartes Borough

Kant Borough

Locke Borough

Nietzche Borough

Plato Borough

Spinoza Borough

Countries

Ambergris - Jeff Vandermeer's fantasy novel Finch

Stockton Commonwealth - Jeff Vandermeer's fantasy novel Finch, p.14

Crim Tartary - W.M. Thackeray's illustrated novel The Rose and the Ring

Paflagonia - W.M. Thackeray's illustrated novel The Rose and the Ring

Glubdubdrib - Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels

Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s feminist utopian novel Herland

Gapnadesh - Gap Year Land opens near Tenby The Daily Mash, May 4, 2013

Glennbeckistan - Letter to the Editor from WV U.S. Senator Robert Byrd

Kalif's empire - Jeff Vandermeer's fantasy novel Finch, p. 14

Kazohinia - Sándor Szathmári's novel Kazohinia

Kirkesner - U.S. military medical training at Quantico, VA (source: Kyndra Miller Rotunda's memoir Honor Bound, pp. 14, 17, 21)

Land Where Econfakers Dwell - John F. Weeks's nonfiction Economics of the 1% p. 5

Linaria - Asuka Izumi’s manga The Lizard Prince

Normland - Richard Rottenburg's nonfiction book Far-Fetched Facts description from MIT Press

Outer Zone, a.k.a. OZ - Tin Man 2007 min-series

Renewistan - Stewart Brand's nonfiction Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist's Manifesto

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Atlantis Bialya Bogatago - Batman #424 (October, 1988) Corto Maltese Del Canto - JLA Classified #26 (October, 2006) Devil Skull Island Dhabar - in Robin 44 a Middle-Eastern country also known as Karroca or the Karrocan Emirate, neighboring Edalji Gamorra Island Hunpar Jamil Island Jarhanpur Kafoonistan Kahndaq Karrocan Emirate - aka Karroca, aka Dhabar, Kaznia Khadym Kooey Kooey Kooey Korao Lamumba Lancho Largo Logamba Markovia Mikishawm Modora

CHECKED Justice League Europe (1989-1993) _ DC Database _ Fandom

Rheelasia - Asian country in Young Justice, episode XXXX, a blatant stand-in for North Korea. (A united Rheelasia had appeared earlier in Black Canary & Oracle: Birds of Prey) _NOTHING North OR WEST/EAST? It was spelled Rhelasia in the Young Justice TV show, which split the country in two halves like Korea. North Rhelasia and South Rhelasia, although the nations have recently united, forming United Rhelasia.

NOT DONE

Numark Nurvania Olancho Oolong Island Oxnalia Paradise Island Parador - Police Comics #5 (December, 1941)

+ Eclipso etc

Quiana Qurac Ramistan Rangistan Raulo Rebolo Rembecco Rhapastan Rheelasia Robaria Samos San Miguel - neutral country in whose port a surface raider of an unnamed nation at war with the US is secretly resupplying in X-5, Secret Agent, Hit Comics #1 (July, 1940) Much later in New Titans #70 (October, 1990) country has terrible rep but is grudgingly doing a peace process and has just released iconic freedom fighter from jail. In deathstroke movie, dictatorhsip under xxxx, whom Deathstroke uncharacteristically leaves alive, and has featureless red flag.

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Santa Bertriza - neighbor of Del Canto in JLA Classified #26 (October, 2006)_NOTHING - REALLY? Santa Flora - Latin American country https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Sensation-Mystery-Comics/Issue-3?id=41043#28 Santa Prisca Sardona - republi Seljukana Slovekia - Eastern European monarchy on Earth-8, brutaly conquered by Lord Havok and the Extremists and converted into their stronghold (with the addition of "New" to the name)

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Countdown-Presents-Lord-Havok-and-the-Extremists/Issue-5?id=88138#4 https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Slovekia?so=search

Souciyan Island South OR WEST/EAST? Rheelasia - Asian country in Young Justice, episode XXXX, a blatant stand-in for South Korea. (A united Rheelasia had appeared earlier in Black Canary & Oracle: Birds of Prey) _NOTHING Sunken Island Tai-Yan Talon Tiger Empire Tranbelvia United States of AmeriKa United States of Lions United States of North America Uslustan Vendazia Verdania Vlatava - homeland of Count Vertigo. has flag in Suicide Squad Vol 1 #41 May, 1990 Volcania Voldania Voltania Wooloo Island Zambesi Zandia Zangaria Zarikan Zazarstan Zhutan Zorania

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[Arabic _ English] The motto on the seal of the Emirate of Deryabar in the 1947 movie _Sinbad the Sailor._ According to the script, it reads _In the eighth month, the winds are willing_ - is that correct? "في قمر الثمين النائم ألفين" ؟؟؟ I am just guessing . does that mean anything or is it just gibberish? It's either a different language or just gibberish. The font is usually associated with farsi/urdu. Can be used for Arabic but very rare. thanks for the clearer image. Can't quite make it all out but what I can see the given translation is roughly accurate? It's more like "In moon the eighth the breeze accepts" But it may not be Arabic, rather something close enough that it's roughly understandable. That or a really bad translation into Arabic (They started with what they wanted it to say in English and translated it into Arabic)

https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/The-Inferior-Five/Issue-4?id=74673#6

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Archie O'Toole was an American comic-strip written and drawn by Will Eisner, debuting as a two-page feature in Feature Funnies in July 1938, before moving to Smash Comics, another Quality anthology title, a year later.

History of 1930's platinum and golden age comics http://www.terryhoknes.com/comichistory1933.htm

The Steranko History of Comics https://archive.org/stream/historycomics11/History_comics_2_djvu.txt

By February 1941, Eisner had left the feature, which gradually transitioned to a one-page format. His successors (which included George Tuska) kept the pen name "Bud Thomas," but most of the continuity elements were discarded in favor of self-contained gag strips.

Premise

Archie O'Toole was a native of the island dictatorship of Pyromania, located three thousand miles off the Atlantic coast of the U.S. Employed as a itinerant artist, he was thrown in jail after painting a portrait of an old man with a beard (the mercurial dictator of Pyromania, Gil O. Teen, having banned beards.) Gil O. Teen then commanded Archie to paint his own portrait, but the artist tricked the dictator into falling off a balcony, an embarrassment which (under the laws of Pyromania) meant his deposition. In gratitude, O'Toole was declared the new king of Pyromania.

The strip's first year in Feature Funnies consisted of O'Toole fending off attempts by Gil O. Teen to depose him and retake power, followed by a trip to America to secure a loan to address Pyromania's perennial budget shortfall, where the king was greeted as a celebrity and made a lot of money endorsing products. He also acquired a romantic interest in the angelic Suzy Sweet, the stepdaughter of a New York mobster who had tried to waylay him on the way home. The stories consisted of two pages and had a certain amount of continuity, including attempts to introduce recurring characters such as a upper-class British bodyguard or an offensively stereotyped black "Finkelstein's monster," that however rarely saw more than a few appearances. The plots included encounters with mobsters, visits by foreign dignitaries, and encounters with the supernatural, such as the ghosts haunting the Pyromanian royal castle (who left in a huff after O'Toole tried to charge them rent.)

In August 1939, the comic was moved to Quality's new title, Smash Comics, and the storytelling became less ambitious; Suzy Sweet was dropped without explanation after the penultimate Feature Funnies issue, while Gill O. Teen only outlasted her by one more. The royal advisers became one-off characters, and the title was gradually scaled down to a single page, with less narrative content and more of a single-joke structure. Archie O'Toole' was nonetheless popular enough to run for another nine years, in nearly seventy consecutive issues; the art however departed considerably from Eisner's original style, and there were several instances of unsubtly recycled plots.

Character Description

Tall, gangly, and red-headed, O'Toole was kind, eccentric, and fond of bad novelty music, in particular a tune called "Flat Foot Floogie" ("with a floy floy ya de da yo de do").

Publication History

Title	Appearances	First	Last	Issues	Notes
Feature Funnies	11	Jul 1938	May 1939	#10 - #20
Feature Comics	2	Jun 1939	Jul 1939	#21 - #22
Smash Comics	72	Aug 1939	Feb 1949	#1 - #41, #43 - 68, #70, #71, #78, #79, #81
All Humor Comics	1 (reprint only)	Oct 1949	Oct 1949	#16

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