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This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. 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 ...
(The name means "golden table" in Spanish.) Nollop: island state from the novel Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn; San Cristobel: tropical island country in The Guiding Light TV series, also the name for a separate fictional nation in the TV series Automan; San Esperito: South American island nation from the video game Just Cause. Translated in ...
Poictesme: a country situated roughly in the south of France in the books of James Branch Cabell. Poland: Eastern European country similar to the real Poland in the play King Ubu by Alfred Jarry. Poldavia: a small country presumably in Eastern Europe in The Blue Lotus from The Adventures of Tintin.
The name is similar to Greek-born film director Costa-Gavras; Costaguana: from Joseph Conrad's Nostromo, said to be a hybrid of several real countries; Country of the Blind: from the short story with the same name by H. G. Wells; Diamantara: a republic in South America from the anime Michiko & Hatchin
Listenbourg is a fictional country created as the subject of an internet meme in October 2022, which depicts it as an extension of the Iberian Peninsula. [1] [2] [3] French Twitter user Gaspard Hoelscher shared a doctored map of Europe with a red arrow pointing to the outline of a pasted country adjacent to Portugal and Spain, and joked that Americans would not be able to name the country.
Variants of the country's name sometimes make it clear what country they really have in mind. By using a fictional country instead of a real one, authors can exercise greater freedom in creating characters, events, and settings, while at the same time presenting a vaguely familiar locale that readers can recognize.
Phaic Tăn: A fictional country in Indochina, featured in the parody travel book of the same name. Rook Islands: An archipelago located somewhere near Indonesia featured in the video game Far Cry 3. Sarkhan: A country analogous to Vietnam in the novel The Ugly American. It is the location of a war between the United States and Communist insurgents.
Maurania: African country in Paradise video game. Its name might be based on the real-life Saharan country of Mauritania. Mbangawi: African country located between Tanzania and Kenya. Featured in the Marvel Comics. Mohannda: Fictional country bordering Wakanda and Zwartheid. From the Marvel Comics.