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This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, 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.
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- Archenland: country in The Chronicles of Narnia, located to the south of Narnia
- Atlantis: a mythological island nation first mentioned in Plato's Timaeus. Its location has varied in subsequent retellings.
- Aurelia, Federal Republic of: a country that appeared in Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception.
- Axphain: neighbor of Graustark in several novels by George Barr McCutcheon.
B
- BabaKiueria: a country in Australia in the satirical film of the same name.
- Babar's Kingdom (French: Le pays des Éléphants, "Elephant Land"): African country populated by intelligent elephants, usually bipedal.
- Baltish: a fictional country from a Lithuanian TV show
- Bangalla: a central African nation featured in The Phantom comic strip.
- Berzerkistan: a country in the comic strip Doonesbury, located between Iran and Russia.[1] Its capital is either called Bmzklfrpz City[1] or Trff City,[2] after its President-for-Life Trff Bmzklfrpz.
- Bialya: a country appearing in many comic books published by DC Comics.
- Blefuscu: a land where all the people are tiny from the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. Enemies of Lilliput
- Borduria: totalitarian state from the comics series The Adventures of Tintin, located in the Balkans
- Brungaria: an Eastern European dictatorship similar to the Soviet Union, in the Tom Swift Junior series
C
- Cagliostro: a tiny, mountainous European duchy in the Lupin III film The Castle of Cagliostro
- Calbia: a tiny Balkan republic in the Doc Savage adventure "The King Maker"
- Carbombya: a country mentioned in the Transformers series
- Carpathia: Balkan kingdom in the play The Sleeping Prince by Terence Rattigan and the subsequent film The Prince and the Showgirl'
- Chernarus: post-Soviet republic in the video game ArmA 2
- Country of the Blind, The: a country where all the population are blind, situated in a hidden valley near Ecuador, from a short story by H. G. Wells.
D
- Dawsbergen: neighbor of Graustark
- Dinotopia: a hidden, utopian island from James Gurney's illustrated books
E
- Eastasia: from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
- Ecotopia: an ecological utopia appearing in the novels Ecotopia and Ecotopia Emerging by Ernest Callenbach.
- Elbonia: Backward country from the comic strip Dilbert
- Emmeria: a country featured in the Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation game.
- Equatorial Kundu: a West African republic from the TV series The West Wing
- Estovakia: a country that appeared in Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation.
F
- Farfelu: a surrealisitic place in the novel The Kingdom of Farfelu by André Malraux (see [1])
- Freedonia: European country from the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup
G
- Genosha: an island nation which was established as a mutant homeland in Marvel Comics
- Genovia: European country from The Princess Diaries novels and film adaptations (The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement)
- Gérolstein:18th Century German Principality in the opéra bouffe La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein) by Jacques Offenbach
- Gilead: A theocratic country occupying the territory of the former United States, in the novel The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Glubbdubdrib: an island governed by a tribe of magicians. About one third the size of the Isle of Wight. From the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
- Gondal
- Gondor: Country in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series.
- Gondour: an ideal republic imagined by Mark Twain in his short story The Curious Republic of Gondour.
- Grand Fenwick: a duchy in The Mouse That Roared and sequels by Leonard Wibberley.
- Graustark: Eastern European country in several novels by George Barr McCutcheon.
- Groland: French television channel Canal+ "presipality."
H
- Halla: a kingdom from the film Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne
I
- Islandia: self-isolated country in Austin Tappan Wright's novel Islandia (Note: Islandia is the Spanish name of Iceland)
- Ivalice: a location in the Final Fantasy series.
- Ixania: a small Balkan country of little global importance in Eric Ambler's The Dark Frontier.
J
K
- Kahndaq: an ancient Middle-Eastern country in DC Comics. located on the Sinai Peninsula, between Egypt, Israel and Jordan.
- Kasnia: war-torn Eastern European monarchy in the DC Animated Universe
- Khemed: an Arabic monarchy from The Adventures of Tintin comics
- Kinakuta (Queenah-Kootah): an island state from Neal Stephenson's novels Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle.
- Krakozhia: a Slavic country from the film The Terminal.
L
- Latveria: a kingdom in the Fantastic Four comic-book series ruled by tyrannical Doctor Doom
- Laurania: the republic in Savrola (A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania) by Winston Churchill
M
- Markovia: an independent Alpine nation in DC Comics, ruled by the superhero Geo-Force
- Matobo: a state in the sub-Saharan region of Africa, from the 2005 film The Interpreter
- Mendorra: a European monarchy on the long-running U.S. soap opera One Life to Live.
- Meropis: A parody of Atlantis created by Theopompus of Chios
- Metrofulus: A cold country in the Cicak-Man movies.
- Molvanîa: Eastern European country from a parody travel guidebook; from the same authors as Phaic Tăn and San Sombrèro.
- Mushroom Kingdom: 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.
N
- Narnia: A land from the series the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
- Nevoruss: a powerful state in the north of Russia and America created by Russian writer Grigoriy Demidovtsev
- Novistrana: from the computer game Republic: The Revolution
O
- Oceania: totalitarian superstate centered on the Americas in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
- Orsinia: a Central European country similar to Czechoslovakia or Hungary, the focus of Ursula K. Le Guin's Orsinian Tales and the novel Malafrena.
- Oz, Land of Oz: magical land in L. Frank Baum's Oz books, as well as the later novel, movie The Wizard of Oz and play Wicked and its sequels.
P
- Palombia: home of the Marsupilami from the Spirou et Fantasio and Marsupilami comics.
- Patusan: an island nation somewhere in the South China Sea in the film Surf Ninjas as well as in the film The Last Electric Knight and the TV series Sidekicks. Also mentioned in Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad.
- Penguina (L'île des Pingouins): 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).
- Phaic Tăn: South East Asian country from a parody travel guidebook; from the same authors as Molvanîa and San Sombrèro.
- Poictesme: a country situated roughly in the south of France in the books of James Branch Cabell
- Pokolistan: A former Soviet Republic in the DC Comics universe formerly ruled by General Zod
- Pottsylvania: from Jay Ward's The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
Q
- Qumar: a Middle Eastern state from the television series The West Wing
- Qumran (Kumrahn): an Arab country in the BBC comedy series Yes Minister
- Qurac: a Persian Gulf country in the DC Comics Universe, often used when DC needs a terrorist state.
R
- Robo-Hungarian Empire: the home of Bender's uncle in Futurama; a parody of Austria-Hungary
- Rohan: Country in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series.
- Ruritania: a German-speaking kingdom in central Europe from Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda and associated works.
S
- Saint Georges Island: 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: Eastern European kingdom in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Lost Prince
- San Lorenzo: a tiny, rocky island nation located in the Caribbean Sea in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle
- San Seriffe: an island nation featured in an elaborate April Fools' Day hoax on 1 April 1977 in the British newspaper The Guardian.
- San Sombrèro: a Central American country from a parody travel guidebook; from the same authors as Molvanîa and Phaic Tăn.
- San Theodoros: a South American nation featured in several of The Adventures of Tintin, stories, home of General Alcazar
- Shangri-La: a mystical, harmonious valley, enclosed in the western end of the Himalaya in James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon
- The Shire: A fictional 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 appanage republic of the USSR", a fake country created by monochrom for theatre performances and computer games
- Sierra Gordo: 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: a Balkan communist country in Malcolm Bradbury's Rates of Exchange and its sequel Why Come to Slaka?
- Sodor: 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.
- Syldavia: Balkan monarchy featured in four stories of The Adventures of Tintin, neighbouring Borduria
- Sylvania: belligerent neighbor to Freedonia in the film Duck Soup
T
- Tecala: South American country from the film Proof of Life.
- Trans-Carpathia: Eastern-European Cobra stronghold; location of many stories from the G.I. Joe comic book line
U
- United Islamic Republic: a nation created by the conquest of Iraq by Iran in Tom Clancy's novel Executive Orders.
V
- Val Verde: Spanish-speaking country resembling Nicaragua, in the films Commando, Predator, Die Hard 2 and Jurassic Attack.
- Vulgaria: 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.
W
- Wakanda: 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.
X
Y
- Yellow Empire: a fascist Asian power in Blake and Mortimer.
Z
- Zanzibar Land: A country bordering the Middle East and, for a time, the only country to possess nuclear weapons in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
- Zekistan: 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.
See also
References
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- ^ a b 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