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Name Flag Work Notes Abou-Yamen The Under-Gifted (1980) A country in the Middle East. Its name is inspired by Abu Dhabi (city in the UAE) and Yemen. [1] Absurdistan: Politische Studien (1971) [2] An imaginary land in which absurdity is the norm, especially in its public authorities and government. [3] Absurdistan, Republic of
Playhouse Land: is a fictional country that makes sense of Playhouse Disney Pals Paldea : European region based on the Iberian peninsula in the video games Pokémon Scarlet and Violet . Pannonia : Appeared in Guy Boothby 's Long Live the King (1900).
The world in which Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 take place. Final Fantasy X: 2001: V Temerant: Patrick Rothfuss: The setting for The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear. The Name of the Wind: 2007: N Tékumel: M. A. R. Barker: A technological world is suddenly cast into a "pocket dimension".
(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 ...
Bialya (Currently Greater Bialya): an evil nation in the show Young Justice, led by a mind controlling female by the name of Queen Bee. She is part of The Light, a group of supervillains. Bocamo: a gold-producing West African state from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "Kitara". Renowned as a particularly brutal practitioner of apartheid.
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.
A legendary Inca lost city or utopian rich land said to lie east of the Andes. Pohjola: The realm of Louhi in Finnish mythology, literally translated its name means "North". Quivira and Cíbola: Two of the legendary Seven Cities of Gold supposed by Spanish conquistadors to have existed in the Americas. Ryūgū-jō
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.