Fictional lands on real Earth

[Neeli]

My question concerns settings in fantasy/science fantasy. I've seen lots of stories set on Earth in alternative reality settings: London as it might have been if genies were real, modern day US if werewolves/vampires/witches/you-name-it were real. But the settings use real places.

And then there are the stories set in completely fictional worlds that are NOT Earth in any way.

And then there are the post-modern worlds in which Earth as we know it is in the past.

Here's my question: What I want to do is set my story in real Earth history (16th century), but in a fictional land that doesn't actually exist in reality as we know it. I'm inventing the entire continent on Earth, its geography, cities, people, etc, but I want to refer to real history and literature that the characters would know about at the time. Is this breaking some kind of "rule" of fantasy settings? I've been told I can't have it both ways--use real history and a fictional setting.

Are there any examples of this that you know of in print?

[Nateskate]

My question concerns settings in fantasy/science fantasy. I've seen lots of stories set on Earth in alternative reality settings: London as it might have been if genies were real, modern day US if werewolves/vampires/witches/you-name-it were real. But the settings use real places.

And then there are the stories set in completely fictional worlds that are NOT Earth in any way.

And then there are the post-modern worlds in which Earth as we know it is in the past.

Here's my question: What I want to do is set my story in real Earth history (16th century), but in a fictional land that doesn't actually exist in reality as we know it. I'm inventing the entire continent on Earth, its geography, cities, people, etc, but I want to refer to real history and literature that the characters would know about at the time. Is this breaking some kind of "rule" of fantasy settings? I've been told I can't have it both ways--use real history and a fictional setting.

Are there any examples of this that you know of in print?

In art, the exception to the rule is the rule.

If someone tells you that you broke a rule, it's likely because they couldn't see a way to make a round peg fit into a square hole. It's a pure logic based outlook. However, in fantasy, you make the rules for your world, and simply have to make it so interesting people follow.

Or you can try a version of what Tolkien did, go into the pre-history of the earth and blend in elements of antiquity. That way you can be on earth and make it however you'd like it to be.

[TheIT]

Fictional land, real setting? Sounds good to me. Examples I can think of are Princess Bride (I don't think either country existed though they seemed to be in Europe), and perhaps the Lovecraft stories. Piers Anthony's Xanth books are set in a magical land in another dimension which overlaps Florida.

SF/F is all about "What if?" Sounds like your story question is "What if there was another continent on Earth? How would another land have changed history?"

[MidnightMuse]

Fantasy, by rough definition, is a world that you've made up. So you're perfectly okay taking Earth as we know it, and changing it almost completely. Invent an entirely new continent, have islands that float, refer to the American revolution - it's Fantasy.

If this were Science Fiction, you'd be more restricted and have to explain how and why this new continent exists without our history knowing about it. In Fantasy, anything goes so long as you make it compelling, interesting, and fun to read :)

[waylander]

The Lyonesse series by Jack Vance would appear to fit within this category

[Higgins]

Here's my question: What I want to do is set my story in real Earth history (16th century), but in a fictional land that doesn't actually exist in reality as we know it. I'm inventing the entire continent on Earth, its geography, cities, people, etc, but I want to refer to real history and literature that the characters would know about at the time. Is this breaking some kind of "rule" of fantasy settings? I've been told I can't have it both ways--use real history and a fictional setting.

Are there any examples of this that you know of in print?

Before SF departed entirely from regular fiction, one feature that regular fiction had in great abundance was fictional places: towns, countries, states of the Union. Bernard Malmund has a fictional state in his very first novel (1960). I can't see anything wrong with having a whole continent...though, god knows, sci fi has plenty of rules to prohibit anything that a normal person might find interesting.

[Higgins]

Fantasy, by rough definition, is a world that you've made up. So you're perfectly okay taking Earth as we know it, and changing it almost completely. Invent an entirely new continent, have islands that float, refer to the American revolution - it's Fantasy.

If this were Science Fiction, you'd be more restricted and have to explain how and why this new continent exists without our history knowing about it. In Fantasy, anything goes so long as you make it compelling, interesting, and fun to read :)

Exactly. So write Fantasy. Unless you want to spend all your time explaining without really explaining things that don't really need any explanations and not explaining why anything that involves being explicit about mass energy and what not is supposed to be intrinsically interesting.

[Perle_Rare]

I'm not an expert but in the "Princess Diaries", there's this country called Genovia that's supposedly smack in the middle of Europe somewhere but nobody can quite locate it on the map. Mia, the newly discovered princess, flies happily between California and Genovia without a care in the world. In this case, it's more of a way of using contemporary life and a partly fictional setting.

As a reader, I can easily accept the idea of a small country I've never heard of stuck somewhere within a large continent. It is possible for such a tiny country to have had very little impact on world history and thus, have escaped my attention and everyone else's for that matter.

But for me to accept the idea of a whole new continent with cities and everything in 16th century Earth, I'd have many questions. First of all, it would be hard for me not to think that you mean America which was discovered around that general timeframe or even Australia, discovered slightly later. Unconsciously, I would try to plant your cities and your cultures in that context. Well done, it could work but it might not be what you intended.

You'd have to craft your cultures carefully to make the idea of this new continent believable. Have them too technologically advanced and I'll wonder why they weren't the ones that went and discovered the rest of Earth first!

As a reader, I'd be wondering why the new continent had no previous impact on the rest of 16th century world history and why it also has none today. Where did it go? Atlantis had the decency to sink beneath the waves.

Then again, maybe the reader's "now" isn't important to your story.

Well done, this could work though you might have a lot of reader preconceptions to battle though. I don't know how you'll bridge the real known history to the fantasy part of your story without the reader balking because this isn't what they were taught in grade 7 history. What genre would this be, I wonder?... Historical Fantasy? Could be interesting!

Write a few scenes, hand them out to your beta readers and see if they go for it!

Just my 2cc worth.

[Ravenlocks]

Yup, Europe is full of tiny fictional countries. And as far as I know fictional small towns set in the real world are still pretty common even in mainstream fiction.

A whole continent is tougher, but as long as you work it into the history of the world correctly, I don't see why it couldn't work. The question "Can it work?" is basically one of those where the answer is, "Depends."

[Higgins]

But for me to accept the idea of a whole new continent with cities and everything in 16th century Earth, I'd have many questions. First of all, it would be hard for me not to think that you mean America which was discovered around that general timeframe or even Australia, discovered slightly later. Unconsciously, I would try to plant your cities and your cultures in that context. Well done, it could work but it might not be what you intended.

You'd have to craft your cultures carefully to make the idea of this new continent believable. Have them too technologically advanced and I'll wonder why they weren't the ones that went and discovered the rest of Earth first!

As a reader, I'd be wondering why the new continent had no previous impact on the rest of 16th century world history and why it also has none today. Where did it go? Atlantis had the decency to sink beneath the waves.

Then again, maybe the reader's "now" isn't important to your story.

Well done, this could work though you might have a lot of reader preconceptions to battle though. I don't know how you'll bridge the real known history to the fantasy part of your story without the reader balking because this isn't what they were taught in grade 7 history. What genre would this be, I wonder?... Historical Fantasy? Could be interesting!

Write a few scenes, hand them out to your beta readers and see if they go for it!

Just my 2cc worth.

It's the "extra Aztecs" phenomenon. If there could be something as big as MEsoAmerican civilization sitting out there for thousands of years unknown to even the Chinese and the Vikings and the Portuguese...why not another mesoAmerica or two or three? there's plenty of room for a few more mesoAmericas even in North America and you could put many more in the Pacific. Some of them could be a lot more plausible than the Aztecs (a kingdom with pyramids on a lake in 7,000-foot mountains where everybody wears lots of feathers and does a lot of human sacrifice? How plausible is that?)

[maxmordon]

Fictional Lands in real Earth have existed always in fiction, even in the XX century. (Originally the land of Oz was set in Arizona or something like that!) it is now that when the world is globalize and we are sure people on the other side of the world is just like us that this have lost it

[Pthom]

Then there's the mighty country (or principality, I guess) of Grand Fenwick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_That_Roared), which declared war on the USA -- and won.

:D

[Zelenka]

Then there's the mighty country (or principality, I guess) of Grand Fenwick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_That_Roared), which declared war on the USA -- and won.

:D

That was the one I was going to mention!

I also have a book somewhere, Lost Islands of the Atlantic, all about these mythical islands and continents people used to believe in, like Hy Brasil and the likes. A lot of those have turned up in fantasy fiction.

Personally I think your idea sounds really interesting and very much the sort of fantasy I like to read.
JessR

[Richard White]

The Duchy of Grand Fenwick anyone?

Zendia?

Man, Marvel Comics was inventing a new country every other issue when they first started: Latveria (Home of Dr. Doom) and Wakadena (Home of the Black Panther) are the two that come to mind immediately when I think of fictional countries they made famous.

The way things are in Europe, with various independence movements, it is reasonable to project a number of micro-countries in the near future. As long as your story is internally consistent, no one's going to argue with it.

[Neeli]

Yes, Sokal, that was exactly what I had in mind--an extra continent that, like the Americas and Australia, was just being discovered by Europeans. I guess you would have to call it an alternate history for not caring why we don't know about it now.

I think the problem I'm having is that my readers are having a hard time grasping the idea that despite the fact that I've made up this place it IS on Earth, and for that reason I use real trees and flowers and the constellations that we see, and refer to Babylonian legends, Egyptian folklore, and Arab poets. They want it to either be Earth as they know it or somewhere else entirely.

[TheIT]

What about the lost continent of Atlantis?

Sounds like part of the issue might be how the other continent is being introduced. Was the rest of the world aware of this land, or was it recently discovered? How did the continent get populated? Do the inhabitants know about the rest of the world or are they isolated?

If the other continent developed in isolation, I'd find it anachronistic if they used terms or artifacts from other world cultures. If the inhabitants did have outside contact, then all right.

[Richard White]

Heck, you could have Atlantis rising back out of the sea and being repopulated. Imagine people finding all kinds of strange artifacts (and stranger creatures that have occupied the island while it was below in the depths).

Hmmm . . .

(starts jotting some notes) ;)

[Higgins]

They want it to either be Earth as they know it or somewhere else entirely.

A bad SF habit...I mean demanding that the fictional world fit the demands of how a genre defines itself supposedly.

If non-SF fiction can have imaginary places (and it does all the time), then why is an SF world more or less identical to Earth, but with an extra continent a problem? If you just reverse the direction of the Juan de Fuca plate and give it a little more granite (lighter than basalt and it would explain what delayed the subduction too) and tilt it a bit south, you could have a fine Pacific "MesoAmerica" in a Jiffy...Hell, the Spanish were convinced there was such a place and licensed the first governor of New Mexico to have ports ready to receive ships from that imaginary land mass. Or you could just detach and augment California a bit.

I would keep it out of the Central Pacific...and even worse...it would be even more isolated than MesoAmerica unless it had somehow sent out its own mysterious agents.

Oh well...I think an extra MesoAmerica or two would be fun. But watch how the winds and currents work in the Pacific: it is hard to go east and stay in warm weather. You can take the Japan Current to the Pacific Northwest....but that's a very rough stretch of ocean.

[Ravenlocks]

Yeah, if this place is just being discovered, then probably the people there haven't heard of Babylon or any Arab poets or anything. I doubt Cortes arrived to find Qetzocoatl* quoting Greek literature or referring to the history of the non-American world.



*I just KNOW I spelled that wrong.

[Higgins]

Yeah, if this place is just being discovered, then probably the people there haven't heard of Babylon or any Arab poets or anything. I doubt Cortes arrived to find Qetzocoatl* quoting Greek literature or referring to the history of the non-American world.



*I just KNOW I spelled that wrong.

I agree. There is a plausibility trade-off: you can stick in an extraMesoAmerica, but it is going to be even harder to find than the original. Worse, they may have heard about what happened to the Aztecs and they might be much harder to "contact"...but again, they might send out their own agents to figure out what is up with the European expansion...one Maori dude did do that and he managed to get back to New Zealand with muskets as soon as he figured out what the planetary situation was.
So if you had around an 80-year delay and found the place in 1600, they might have some odds and ends of other civilizations and they would be very wary...plus their population might be rebounding from contact epidemics. they might be quite hard to subdue: more like the Japanese than the Aztecs.

[maxmordon]

Wikipedia's Fictional Countries in Earth List:

[edit] Africa
Afromacoland: African country in the novel Chief the Honourable Minister by T.M. Aluko
Babar's Kingdom
Bangalla: from The Phantom comic strip. The Phantom's base lies in the deep woods of this central African nation.
Bapetikosweti: The "homeland" state of which the South African satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys (under the guise of his drag character, Evita Bezuidenhout) was ambassador to South Africa. It is a word-play on the former "Bantustan" state of Bophuthatswana (unrecognised as a sovereign state by any country other than South Africa). Bophuthatswana was re-incorporated into South Africa shortly after its first democratic election on 27 April 1994, after which Uys discontinued using his parody state (claiming that Bapetikosweti too had been "re-incorporated" into South Africa).
Birani: African nation featured in the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy. Located near Namibia and Angola. Has a Banana Forest at a place called Dumgase.
Bocamoa: a gold producing white supremacist African country from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "Kitara"
Bonande: West African country in the movie La Nuit de la vérité
Bongo Congo: African kingdom in cartoon King Leonardo and his Short Subjects
Bulmeria: an African country mentioned in the webcomic, It's Walky!
Buranda: African country in the BBC comedy series Yes Minister
Equatorial Kundu: West African republic from the television series The West Wing
Gamba: African country in the movie Only Love
Ghalea: a small African nation whose pro-Western government is key to stability in the area, from the Mission: Impossible episode "The Money Machine"
Gindra: a small nation in Central Africa formerly the home of Outer Heaven in Metal Gear: Ghost Babel
Guadec: African country in an episode of Spooks. Led by reformist President Manu Baffong.
Interzone: a fictionalized version of Tangier from William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch
Kalao: African country affected by a covered-up industrial accident, Panique
Kalubya: North African country corresponding to the location of Libya in Operation Thunderbolt arcade game
Kalya: West African country in the novel The Zinzin Road by Fletcher Knebel. Capital city: Ft. Paul.
Kamanga: Southern African country in the novel Tenth Man Down by Chris Ryan. Capital City: Mulongwe. Kamanga is poverty-stricken, war-torn and has an AIDS epidemic.
Kambawe: location of Tom Stoppard's play Night and Day
Kambezi: African country occurring in several MacGyver episodes, e.g. "Black Rhino"
Katanga: African country, neighboring Sierra Leone, in Frederick Forsyth's The Dogs of War
Kenyopia: belligerent African nation in Totally Spies! TV series attempting to conquer its fictitious neighbor Lyrobia (see below)
Kinjanja: African country in the movie A Good Man in Africa (1994) starring Sean Connery
Kush: African country from John Updike's novel The Coup
Logosia: African country from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "The Crane"
Lombuanda: a small African country on the Gulf of Guinea in the Mission: Impossible episode "The Diamond"
Lyrobia: African nation in Totally Spies! containing desert and rain forest environments, with an Arabic-inspired culture
Matobo: a state in the sub-Saharan region of Africa, from the 2005 film The Interpreter
Maurania: African country in Paradise video game
Moloni Republic: Southern African country from the videogame Metal Gear Acid
Nagonia: African country in Yulian Semyonov's spy novel TASS is authorized to announce... (ТАСС уполномочен заявить...), and in the Soviet movie of the same title
Nambabwe: a parody of Namibia (formerly South West Africa) during the time of its UN-supervised independence from South Africa. A spoof of the transition by the UN peace-keeping forces was the subject of a comedy film by Leon Schuster, Oh Shucks...Here Comes UNTAG.
Nambutu: African country featured in the James Bond movie Casino Royale
Natumbe: African country from Dynasty TV series
Nayak: imaginary West African country in the movie La Nuit de la vérité
Nibia: African country in the movie Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Sahelise Republic: African country mentioned in The West Wing
Shakobi: African monarchy from That's So Raven TV series, episode "The Royal Treatment"
Sonzola: African republic mentioned in the novels of Christopher Brookmyre
Sotho: a kingdom in Africa mentioned in a 1997 episode of the German TV series Küstenwache (note: the name and the royalist form of government seem to refer to the real existing Kingdom of Lesotho - however, in the episode, the King of Sotho comes to Germany to order ships for his coastguard, which would not make any sense for the real Lesotho, since the country is landlocked).
Transvalia: not actually a state in its own right, but rather a parody of the so-called "Boerestaat" named Orania (which was to be a whites-only "homeland" that right-wing Afrikaners wished to establish after South Africa's transition to democracy on 27 April 1994). Leon Schuster made a comedy film called "Sweet and Short", which was a parody of life in the New South Africa. Interestingly enough, the film was made in 1990 shortly after Nelson Mandela was released from prison - many of the fictional events portrayed therein actually came to pass in post-apartheid South Africa.
West Monrassa: Central African country in an episode of Spooks. Run by President Gabriel Sakoa, a corrupt leader planning a genocide against the people in the north of the country
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.
Zamunda: African monarchy from the Eddie Murphy movie Coming to America
Zangaro: West African country in the movie The Dogs of War
Zembala: African country in the movie The Wild Geese
Zinariya: an African country famous for its copper mines, ruled by a dictator, General Bindiga, in A. N. Wilson's My Name Is Legion

[edit] Americas

[edit] North America
Aztlan: country formed out of the American states of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico after a nuclear war in the novel Warday.
Bible Belt: country formed by Evangelical Christians in the former Confederate States of America in the novel Prayers for the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno.
Brobdingnag: country where the people are all giants from the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Ecotopia: an ecological utopia appearing in the novels Ecotopia and Ecotopia Emerging by Ernest Callenbach. See also Cascadia, a secessionist idea based in part on Callenbach's Ecotopia.
Islamic States of America: an Islamic republic in the former United States (minus the old Confederate States, Nevada and Utah) in the novel Prayers for the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno.
Gilead: a republic in the novel The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

[edit] Central America
Amerzone: Central American country, the setting of Amerzone video game
Anchuria: Central American country in the novel Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry
British Hidalgo: tiny Central American country in the novel Limekiller by Avram Davidson (See Hidalgo)
Chimerica: Central American country from the Hidden Agenda computer game
Hidalgo: Central American country in the Doc Savage novels and film
Isthmus: a fictionalized version of Panama in the James Bond movie Licence to Kill
Maguadora: tiny Central American country in the movie Whoops Apocalypse
San Marcos (4): civil-war torn Central American country in an episode of MacGyver.
San Sombrèro: Central American country from a parody travel guidebook; from the same authors as Molvanîa and Phaic Tăn.
Santa Cristal: Central American country in the movie Santa Cristal
Tecan: Central American country in the novel A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone
Tijata: Central American dictatorship from the movie The In-Laws
Val Verde: Spanish-speaking country resembling Panama, in the movies Commando and Die Hard 2

[edit] South America
Abari: a British (and ex-British) territory in South America in novels written by John Hearne and Morris Cargill
Aquilea: South American country in the movie Les Trottoirs de Saturne
Brazuela: industrialized South American nation between Venezuela and Brazil in Totally Spies! TV series
Coronado: unstable South American state in a movie of the same name, presumably named after Francisco Coronado
Costaguana: from Joseph Conrad's Nostromo
Maple White Land: land of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World
Miranda / The Mirandan Republic: South American nation from Luis Buñuel's film The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, from which the character Don Rafael is an ambassador to France. It is referred to by several characters as an unpleasant place with a strict military, oppressive leadership, and high murder rate.
Nuevo Rico: South American country from The Adventures of Tintin, neighbouring San Theodoros
Palombia: home of the Marsupilami from the Spirou et Fantasio and Marsupilami comics
San Marcos (3): South American country in an episode of Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei
San Pasquale: South American country in Commander in Chief. Possibly based on Bolivia or Panama.
San Pedro (2): South American country in the movie Hour of the Assassin
San Theodoros: South American nation featured in several of The Adventures of Tintin, home of General Alcazar
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.
Tecala: South American country from the movie Proof of Life
Utopia: from Thomas More's De Optimo Reipublicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia
Vespugia: South American nation located in Patagonia, site of ancient step pyramids and a history of some Welsh settlement; in books by Madeleine L'Engle. In an alternate timeline it was ruled by a dictator who threatened nuclear warfare.

[edit] "Latin America"
Cortuguay: Latin American country beset by revolutions in the film and Harold Robbins novel the Adventurers
Curuguay: a generic Latin American banana republic seen in The A-Team
Parador: Latin American country from the movie Moon Over Parador.
Paragonia: Latin American country in the movie The Americano
Republica de los Cocos: a Latin American state in "Su Excelencia" starring Mario Moreno Cantinflas
San Carlos: Latin American nation in the movie Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection
San Cordova: a democracy in Latin America from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "The Elixir"
San Cristobal: a Latin American democracy in the Mission: Impossible TV episode "The Code"
San Marcos: Latin American republic in Woody Allen's comedy Bananas
San Miguel: small South/Central American dictatorship in the movie Deal of the Century
San Pascal: a Latin American country in the Mission: Impossible TV episode "The Catafalque"
Santales: a small Latin American democracy, from the Mission: Impossible episode "Trek"
Sapogonia: imaginary country, located somewhere to the south of Mexico, where all mestizos come from, in the novel Sapogonia by Ana Castillo

[edit] Australia
BabaKiueria: a country in Australia in the movie BabaKiueria

[edit] Asia

[edit] Central Asia
Agrabah: Arabian mystical land in the animated movie Aladdin and its sequels
Ajir (or Azhir): a Middle East republic neighboring Karak in the Mission: Impossible TV episode "Nitro"
Azaran: Middle Eastern country in The Andromeda Breakthrough TV series
Basenji: a country neighboring Russia in the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie
Hermajistan: A fictional nation used to replace Afghanistan in the anime version of Full Metal Panic. The change was made after the September 11, 2001 attacks, as the protagonist was originally raised in Afghanistan. A later part of the story involves an operation in Hermajistan.
Khembalung: Buddhist Himalayan country whose population moves to an island, in the Science in the Capital series by Kim Stanley Robinson
Kuristan: from the movie Mr. Magoo, central Asian nation that is home to the famous jewel The Star of Kuristan
Mandalia: a kingdom in Asia, located "somewhere between India, China and the Soviet Union", from the 1986 German TV series Kir Royal
Selgina: a small country located high in the Himalayas in the movie Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
Shangri-La: a mystical, harmonious valley, enclosed in the western end of the Himalaya in James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon
Thulahn: Himalayan country in The Business by Iain Banks
Zekistan: a Middle Eastern country between Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and Tajikistan in the Full Spectrum Warrior computer game and Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers; its history and setting closely resemble Afghanistan's and Iraq's.

[edit] East Asia
Xing: Eastern country from the manga version of Fullmetal Alchemist, heavily based on imperial China. Their people practice a form of medicinal alchemy.

[edit] Middle East
Adjikistan: central Asian nation located near Afghanistan and Pakistan in the video game SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Combined Assault
Albenistan: Central Asian country in the d20 adventures Raid on Ashkashem, the Qalashar Device, and the Khorforhan Gambit written by Fraser Ronald and published by Sword's Edge Publishing
Aldestan: Central Asian country, adjacent to Kazakhstan, in the Command & Conquer: Generals video game
Babalstan: Middle Eastern country in the movie Harum Scarum
Bahar: gulf state from an episode of Spooks. Capital city: Bahar city.
Beth Ja Brin: Middle-Eastern country appearing in Danger Man
Confederated Gulf States: Persian Gulf Monarchy run by Sheik Rasul in an episode of Spooks
East Yemen: located somewhere in the Middle East, from the sitcom Yes, Prime Minister. Formerly known as The People's Democratic Republic of East Yemen, it was a Soviet backed Communist dictatorship which often raided its neighbour, West Yemen.
Elkabar: Persian Gulf kingdom, from the Mission: Impossible episode "The Slave"
Fawzia: Middle Eastern kingdom in the movie John Goldfarb, Please Come Home
Golithia: a country between Turkey and the Soviet Union from the graphic novel Batman: Son of the Demon
Ishbal: Middle Eastern-tinged ethnic region situated east of Amestris, in the anime and manga series, Fullmetal Alchemist
Ishtar: a Middle Eastern emirate in the movie Ishtar
Karak: Middle Eastern country, neighboring Ajir in the Mission: Impossible TV episode "Nitro"
Khemed: Arabic monarchy from the world of comic book hero Tintin
Lugash: Mideast nation from the Pink Panther series of movies
Ohtar: Middle Eastern country in the 1984 Goldie Hawn film Protocol
Qamadan: an oil-rich Arab kingdom and American ally from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "The Brothers"
Qumar: Middle Eastern state from the television series The West Wing
Qumran (Kumrahn): Arab country in the BBC comedy series Yes Minister
Qurac: A fictional Persian Gulf country in the DC Comics Universe, often used when DC needs a terrorist state.
Salamia: a country in the Middle East in the Tamil movie Vikram
Salouf: Arabic oil-rich monarchy in the movie Where the Spies Are
Saradia: Middle Eastern country in the movie Godzilla vs. Biollante
Suroq: Middle Eastern country from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "Terror"
Trucial Abysmia: Middle Eastern country in the G.I. Joe comics.
Uqbar: from Jorge Luis Borges's Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
West Yemen: a fictitious and presumably democratic country in the Middle East which bordered East Yemen. From an episode in the sitcom, Yes, Prime Minister.

[edit] South Asia
Halla: a kingdom from the movie Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne
Howduyustan: Carl Barks' satirical version of India.
Munma Holy Republic: Islamic republic, formed out of the southern quarter of Iran and Pakistan, in Appleseed manga
Shundi: a kingdom from the movie Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne which was filmed by Satyajit Ray from a novel by Upendrakishore Raychoudhury

[edit] Southeast Asia
Iriadeska: South Eastern Asian country in the short story Iriadeska's Martians by Frederik Pohl
Kandah State: Sultanate in Ann Halam's Taylor Five; located on Borneo between Malaysia and Indonesia
Phaic Tăn: South East Asian country from a parody travel guidebook; from the same authors as Molvanîa and San Sombrèro.
Ragaan: Southeast Asian country located between Thailand and Malaysia featured in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's TV series Embassy
Sarkhan: Southeast Asian country from the novel The Ugly American by William Lederer and Eugene Burdick and the subsequent movie
Shadaloo: Southeast Asian state in the 1994 film Street Fighter, based on the Capcom computer game (in which the same word was used to describe various other things, including a criminal organisation). In the television series Street Fighter II V, a similar name, Shadowlaw, referred to a master organization controlled by Bison which several lesser syndicates operated under.
Sunda: in Eric Ambler's State of Siege [1], is similar to Indonesia but much smaller, confined to a single island. (In reality there is a Sunda Strait and many islands known collectively as the Sunda Islands, but no specific one island with the name.)
Yatakang: archipelagic Australasian "guided socialist democracy" from John Brunner's novel Stand on Zanzibar. Apparently roughly in the region of, and analogous to, Indonesia.

[edit] Uncertain
Bratavia: Asian dictatorial country mentioned in an episode of the 1987 German TV comedy Diplomaten küßt man nicht

[edit] Europe

[edit] Eastern Europe
Alvania: Balkan kingdom from the movie The Royal Rider
Anatruria: Balkanic kingdom in the Bernie Rhodenbarr novel The Burglar who thought he was Bogart
Axphain: neighbor of Graustark
Baltonia: probably a Baltic country in the movie Esupai
Bandrika (sometimes spelled Vandreka): Eastern European Alpine country, the setting of the first part of the movie The Lady Vanishes. The language spoken in this country is an amalgamation of several European languages.
Borduria: totalitarian state from the comics series The Adventures of Tintin, located in the Balkans
Borovia: Central-European country from The Big Knights TV programme.
Borovia (2): a communist Eastern European country in the G.I. Joe comics by Marvel Comics.
Bothalia: a kingdom in the Balkan Mountains from the movie The Vagabond Prince
Braslavia: Slavic dictatorial country in Patrouille des Castors comics
Bretzelburg: central European dictatorship from Spirou et Fantasio comics
Carpathia: Balkan kingdom from the play The Sleeping Prince by Terrence Rattigan and the subsequent movie The Prince and the Showgirl
Chiroubistan: a Balkan/Islamic country perpetually at war, in the French comic strip "Henriette"
Dawsbergen: neighbor of Graustark
East European Republic: an anti-American power from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "Submarine". Possibly the same as the East European Peoples Republic (EEPR) from "The Party" and the European People's Republic from "Invasion".
Eisneria: a republic in the Balkans from the Road Rovers TV series
Esturia: Slavic country in Patrouille des Castors comics
Euroslavia: Eastern European country that comprises most of Europe; home to a super villain the cartoon "The Ripping Friends"
Evallonia: Central European country in the novels of John Buchan
Evarchia: Eastern European country from Brigid Brophy's Palace Without Chairs
Frobnia: Eastern Bloc nation from Infocom's interactive fiction game Border Zone
Graustark: Eastern European country in several novels by George Barr McCutcheon
Herzoslovakia: a small Balkan state in Agatha Christie's novels The Secret of Chimneys and The Labours of Hercules
Ifuvania: Eastern European country used as an experiment, featured in The Far Side cartoon books
Illyria: Eastern European country in the play Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands) by Jean-Paul Sartre. Illyira is also a name given by the ancient Romans to a region between the Adriatic sea and the Danube river.
Ixania: a small Balkan country of little global importance in Eric Ambler's The Dark Frontier
Karathia: Slavic monarchy in the Three Young Investigators series
Karistan: Central European country in the movie Legend of the White Horse
Kasnia: war-torn Eastern European monarchy in the DC Animated Universe
Katzenstok: a republic in the Balkans from Road Rovers TV series
Krakozhia: from the movie The Terminal
Kravonia: Eastern European country from the novel Sophy of Kravonia by Anthony Hope and the subsequent movie
Laevatia: Balkan nation from Nevil Shute's Ruined City
Lanconia: Eastern European country referenced in Jude Deveraux's romance novels
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
Lavernia: Eastern European country in the movie Another Meltdown (Bi xie lan tian)
Leutonia: Eastern European home of the Happy Wanderers (Yosh & Stan Shmenge) from SCTV
Lutha: a small Balkan kingdom from the novel The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Magyaristan: Islamic state in the former Hungary. From the alternate history book The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
Marshovia (Marsovia, Makovnia): small Eastern European kingdom most likely located somewhere near Transylvania in the operetta The Merry Widow
Moldavia: Eastern European country from Dynasty TV series (note: Moldavia really exists as a region)
Moldavia (2): Eastern European country from the movie Second in Command
Molvanîa: Eastern European country from a parody travel guidebook; from the same authors as Phaic Tăn and San Sombrèro.
Nihilon: a country somewhere in central Europe, run by nihilists, in Alan Sillitoe's comic novel Travels in Nihilon
Novistrana: from the computer game Republic: The Revolution
Orsinia: featured in Ursula Le Guin's Orsinian Tales and Malafrena, Orsinia is an Eastern European country.
Ovitznia: a republic in the Balkans from Road Rovers TV series
Pepeslavia: from "Su Excelencia" movie starring Mario Moreno Cantinflas. Probably referring to Yugoslavia.
Pfennig Halbpfennig: presumably German/Eastern European Grand Duchy and setting for the operetta The Grand Duke, by Gilbert and Sullivan. Notable for an unusual law regarding "Statutory Duels", in which duelists compete by drawing playing cards - the loser then dies and becomes a "legal ghost".
Poldévie: Eastern European country in a famous petition in the 1930s and in many novels by Jacques Roubaud.
Pontevedro: a poverty-stricken Grand Duchy situated deep in the Balkans from the comedy play L'Attache d'ambassade by Henri Meilhac and the subsequent operetta and movie The Merry Widow. Pontevedro is a veiled reference to the Balkan country of Montenegro.
Pottibakia: Balkan country from the short story "What Does it Matter? A Morality" by E. M. Forster. Capital city: Ekarest.
Pottsylvania: from Jay Ward's The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
Povia: a small monarchy in the Balkans in the Mission: Impossible TV episode "The Heir Apparent"
Romanovia: Eastern European country featured in the comedy Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. Dodgeball is the national sport.
Samavia: Eastern European kingdom in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Lost Prince
Saroczia: Eastern European country which the United States invades, which serves as the terrorist basis in the video game Winback.
The Triple Monarchy of Scythia-Pannonia-Transbalkania: from Dr. Engelbert Eszterhazy stories by Avram Davidson
The People's Republic of Slaka: a Balkan communist country in Malcolm Bradbury's Rates of Exchange and its sequel Why Come to Slaka?
Slavosk: a country in Eastern Europe from the TV series Danger Man. Drake must travel to Slavosk to rescue the supposed sister of a famous professor from this country.
Slovetzia: a tiny country in Eastern Europe in the movie The Beautician and the Beast
Syldavia: Balkan monarchy featured in four stories of The Adventures of Tintin, neighbouring Borduria
Symkaria: a small Eastern European country from Marvel Comics, the homeland of renowned mercenary Silver Sable
Veyska: Baltic state suffering dictatorial rule in the Mission: Impossible TV episode "The Astrologer"
Wallarya: a small country in the Balkans in the movie His Royal Highness
Yakastonia: mountainous eastern European nation, where yodeling is prominent in local culture, but so is surfing on its coast. Important landmark is Mount Bubneboba, and its fresh mountain air is celebrated worldwide. A traditional greeting is doing an armpit fart while repeating the word "zwooba!". Home of exchange student Fentruck on the animated series Doug.
Yugaria: small Balkan nation from the Mission: Impossible: Operation Surma video game
Yurugli: Eastern European country in the movie Our Lips Are Sealed. Name is a play on of 'you're ugly.' Home of the notorious Hachew (sneezing noise) crime family

[edit] Western Europe
Al-Alemand: Islamic state consisting of the former Germany and the Low Countries. From the alternate history book The Years of Rice and Salt, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Alpine Emirates: Islamic states in the Bavarian Alps in the alternate history book The Years of Rice and Salt, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Bacteria: thinly-disguised version of Fascist Italy from the movie The Great Dictator. Bears the same name as the microorganism.
Balinderry: strategically-placed quasi-Irish nation that is crucial to a defence radar system, but has an IRA-type insurgency, in an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man
Cagliostro: a tiny duchy in the anime movie The Castle of Cagliostro
Genovia: European country from the The Princess Diaries novels and movie adaptations (The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement)
Glenraven: a tiny country in the Alps, no bigger than Liechtenstein, squeezed into the border between France and Italy in Glenraven series by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Granbretan: a future evil version of Great Britain where the noble classes hide behind metal masks of various totem animals, created by Michael Moorcock in his The History of the Runestaff books
Grand Fenwick: a duchy in The Mouse That Roared and sequels by Leonard Wibberley
Groland: French television channel Canal+ "presipality"
Moronica: parody of Nazi Germany from the Three Stooges short You Nazty Spy
Osterlich: nation invaded by Bacteria and Tomania in the movie The Great Dictator; obviously supposed to be Austria
Penguin Island (L'île des Pingouins): in the 1908 novel by Anatole France, an island in the North Sea where Penguins were miraculosly transformed into humans (and which is in fact a satitical view on France).
Poictesme: a country situated roughly in the south of France in the books of James Branch Cabell
Qwghlm: a country off the northwestern coast of Britain in Neal Stephenson's fictions Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle
Razkavia: Germanic country in Philip Pullman's The Tin Princess
Ruritania: a kingdom in central Europe from Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda and associated works
Sachenia: a tiny state close to the Alps in the movie Herz ohne Krone
Soviet Unterzoegersdorf: the "last existing appanage republic of the USSR", a fake country created by monochrom for theatre performances and computer games
Skandistan: Islamic state comprising what was formerly Scandinavia. From the alternate history book The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
Island of 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"
Tomania: Nazi Germany-like country from the movie The Great Dictator, ruled by Adenoid Hynkel
Veyska: Baltic state suffering dictatorial rule in the Mission: Impossible TV episode "The Astrologer"
Zembla: Northern European country in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire

[edit] Uncertain
Alaine: small European kingdom from the movie His Majesty, the American
Austrania: European kingdom in the movie The Last Volunteer
Betonia: European kingdom in the movie His Royal Highness (1932)
Carpania: European kingdom in The Great Race movie
Concordia: a small country only a few miles across somewhere in Europe in the movie Romanoff and Juliet
Drackenberg: a European country from Lloyd Alexander's The Drackenberg Adventure
Estrovia: European kingdom in the movie A King in New York
Euphrania: tiny kingdom in the movie The Slipper and the Rose
Freedonia: European country from the Marx Brothers movie Duck Soup
Hav: a European city and state in Jan Morris's novel Last Letters from Hav
Irania: small European kingdom from the movie Trouble for Two
Karlova: European kingdom in Edgar Rice Burroughs's The Rider
Karovia: European kingdom from the movie Trouble for Two
Keltic Sultanate: Islamic sultanate comprising the British Isles. From the alternate history book The Years of Rice and Salt, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Margoth: European kingdom in Edgar Rice Burroughs's The Rider
Masavania, Kosnia: European kingdoms in the movie If I Were Queen
Panquita: European monarchy mentioned in second season of Yakitate!! Japan anime. A member of that nation's royal family, Princess Anne, was a guest judge at the baking exhibition.
Peaceland: European country featured in the anime Nadesico, which was once a theme park, but formed it's own nation. It is neutral in all conflicts, on earth and beyond, has no taxes, and has a great banking system similar to that of Switzerland. Ruri "Ruri Ruri" Hoshino, a famous character of the series, is originally a princess from there.
Strackenz: European country in the novel Royal Flash by George MacDonald Fraser
Svardia: a tiny European republic from the Mission: Impossible episode "The Train"
Sylvania: belligerent neighbor to Freedonia in the movie Duck Soup
Terresta: European country in the movie His Royal Highness
Trent, Grand-Duchy of: European Grand-Duchy from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "The Choice"
Ulgia: a politically unstable country from the anime Noir
Vulgaria: the far-off, make-believe land in the film version of the children's story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

[edit] Island nations

[edit] Antarctic
Tsalal: an island in the novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe and its sequel An Antarctic Mystery by Jules Verne not a country

[edit] Atlantic
Birdwell Island: de facto independent island community in the Clifford the Big Red Dog series similar in geography and custom to an islands off of the east coast of the United States.
Fröland: Island in the North Sea in the Dutch TV series Fröland - country?
Islandia: self-isolated country in Austin Tappan Wright's novel Islandia
Sahrani: Atlantic island divided into the northern communist Democratic Republic of Sahrani and the oil-rich democratic monarchy of the Kingdom of South Sahrani in the video game Armed Assault

[edit] Caribbean
Barclay Islands (the Barclays): British-dependent Caribbean archipelago off the Bahamas embroiled in conflict between Castro's Cuba and the drug trade in Frederick Forsyth's novel The Deceiver.
Booty Island: a pirate island in the Caribbean Sea in the game Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, part of the Tri-Island area (governed by Elaine Marley)
Cascara: a tiny Caribbean island in the movie Water
Cayuna: an imaginary Caribbean island modelled on Jamaica in the novels of John Hearne
Crab Island: poor Caribbean island shaped like a crab, under the domination of Crocodile Island, in the Patrouille des Castors comics
Crocodile Island: Caribbean island shaped like a crocodile, with a dictatorial government which seems to be heavily influenced by Tahiti, in the Patrouille des Castors comics
Jambalaya Island: an ex-pirate island in the Caribbean, turned to a tourist attraction center, in Escape from Monkey Island
Mêlée Island: a pirate island in the Caribbean Sea, from the Monkey Island games, part of the Tri-Island area (governed by Elaine Marley)
Phatt Island: an island in the Caribbean in the game Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
Plunder Island: a pirate island in the Caribbean in the game The Curse of Monkey Island, part of the Tri-Island area (governed by Elaine Marley)
Porto Santo: a tiny island nation in Latin America visited by Steve Urkel in the Family Matters episode "South of the Border" (Note: Porto Santo is a real island of Madeira Archipelago)
Sacramento: a Caribbean Island from Érico Veríssimo's novel, O Senhor Embaixador (The Ambassador), heavily based on Cuba.
San Lorenzo: a tiny, rocky island nation located in the Caribbean Sea in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle
San Marcos (2): Caribbean island from an episode of The A-Team
San Monique: Caribbean nation run by a drug lord in the James Bond movie Live and Let Die
Santa Costa: Caribbean island dictatorship from the pilot episode of Mission: Impossible. Appears to lie somewhere between Cuba and the Venezuelan coast on a map seen–briefly–at the start of the episode.
Scabb Island: an anarchic pirate island in the Caribbean in the game Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
Skull Island (2): a small pirate island in the Caribbean in the game The Curse of Monkey Island
Tropico: island nation in the Caribbean in the Tropico computer game

[edit] Indian Ocean
Blefuscu: a land where all the people are tiny from the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. Enemies of Lilliput
Genosha: an island nation which was established as a mutant homeland in Marvel Comics
Houyhnhnms Land: a land where horses rule. The animalistic human-like creatures in this land are called Yahoos. From the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
Ishkebar: small island nation between India and Thailand from The Suite Life of Zack and Cody TV series, episode "Boston Holiday"
Javasu: an island in the Indian Ocean, the alleged country of "Princess Caraboo"
Lilliput: a land where all the people are tiny from the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Pala: island utopia in Aldous Huxley's Island
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.
Skull Island: from King Kong movie(s)
Taprobane: a country described as "about ninety percent congruent with the island of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)" from Arthur C. Clarke's The Fountains of Paradise

[edit] Mediterranean
Al Amarja: Mediterranean island state in the Over the Edge roleplaying game
Barataria: island kingdom, presumably somewhere in the Mediterranean. The setting for Act II of the operetta The Gondoliers, by Gilbert and Sullivan.
Mervo: an island principality in the Mediterranean in the novel The Prince and Betty by P. G. Wodehouse
Mypos: island nation around the Greek isles, home of Balki from Perfect Strangers
Pathos: neighbor of Mypos, part of a different Tri-Island Area in Perfect Strangers
Skeptos: neighbor of Mypos, part of a different Tri-Island Area in Perfect Strangers

[edit] Pacific
Baki: homeland of Omio in Madeleine L'Engle's writing, a small Pacific island nation once dominated by British
Balnibarbi: land containing the metropolis called Lagado from the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Bensalem: utopian island nation located somewhere off the Western coast of the continent of America from Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis
Caspak: a huge island country located in the South seas somewhere between South America and Australia from Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Land That Time Forgot and its sequels
Eleutheria: an island nation in the Southwest Pacific Ocean from the Eleutheria Model Parliament role playing game.
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.
Kinakuta (Queenah-Kootah): island state from Neal Stephenson's novels Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle
Luggnagg: an island state about 100 leagues SE from Japan. From the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
Patusan: an island nation somewhere in the South China Sea in the movie 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. ????
Taka-Tuka-Land: Astrid Lindgren's book about Pippi Longstocking mentions a travel to this country in the third book of the series. Pippi's father was a king there in the South Sea.
Toga Toga Islands: South Pacific island nation featured on The A-Team
Vanutu: a tiny South Pacific nation comprised of four atolls from the novel State of Fear by Michael Crichton

[edit] Other or uncertain
Aquabania: an idyllic island, the supposed home of The Aquabats
Cacklogallinia: a kingdom off the coast of South America, from A Voyage to Cacklogallinia by Captain Samuel Brunt
Cap'D'Far: a small island country from an episode of Scarecrow and Mrs. King who's only export was fish bones
Dinotopia: a hidden, utopian island from James Gurney's illustrated books
Flyspeck Island: home of Gunk in the comic strip Curtis -- country?
Huella Islands: islands off the coast of Cayenne, mentioned in the Hardy Boys books. They are ruled by dictator Juan Posada and their "spy chief" is named Bedoya. The adjective is Huellan.
Istan: an island state in the online role-playing game, Guild Wars Nightfall
Lucre Island: a pirate island in the game, Escape from Monkey Island
Malevelosia: an island kingdom filled with supervillains in Justice Squad
Mardi archipelago: from Herman Melville's Mardi and a Voyage Thither
Mesa de Oro: unstable Latin American island in the Three Young Investigators series. (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 English means "St. espionage".
Pokoponesia: island nation from the animated version of The Tick

[edit] Uncertain

[edit] A
Agraria: Eastern country in the movie You Know What Sailors Are
Altruria: utopian country from William Dean Howells' A Traveller from Altruria
Anemia: a country in the movie Hot Stuff. Bears the same name as the medical condition.
Angria: imaginary country from the poems of the Brontë sisters
Anvillania: a country where the Warner Brothers and Sisters were declared royalty in Animaniacs
Applesauce Lorraine: a country, stated to be bordered by France and Baja California, from Rocky and Bullwinkle's epic "The Three Moosketeers"
Arcacia: mythical kingdom in the movie A Royal Family
Ardistan: from the novel Ardistan and Dschinnistan by Karl Friedrich May
Aslan: from anime Area 88. Sometimes also transliterated Asran.
Auspasia: the noisiest and most talkative nation in the world; appears in Georges Duhamel's Lettres d'Auspasie and La dernier voyage de Candide

[edit] B
Backhairistan: from The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius animated TV series
Bahavia: country where Meena Paroom's father is the ambassador in the Disney Channel series, "Cory In The House".
Bahkan: a nation threatened by the Federated Peoples' Republic in the Mission: Impossible TV episode "Fool's Gold"
Beninia: from John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar
Boravia: a republic from TV program Danger Man In the episode "The Lovers", John Drake receives a call from an old enemy who is now in charge of security for the President of Boravia.
Borginia: a republic from the videogame Dino Crisis
Brainania: from the animated series Pinky and the Brain
Bregna: a centralized scientific planned state from the animated series Aeon Flux
Brutopia: country appearing in several Donald Duck stories, possibly referring to the Soviet Union
Bukistan: an Islamic country in the Cary Grant movie Dream Wife

[edit] C
Calia: from Modesty Blaise episode "The Jericho Caper"
Candover: medieval country in the novel Rats and Gargoyles by Mary Gentle
Carbombya: country mentioned in the Transformers series
Celama, Kingdom of: mythical land where inhabitants fight for survival as a challenge to their dignity in novels El reino de Celama by Luis Mateo Díez
Chekia: mythical kingdom in the movie The Only Thing
Coronia: a kingdom from the movie King, Queen and Joker
Country of the Blind: from the short story with the same name by H. G. Wells

[edit] D
Danu: setting of Timothy Mo's 1991 novel The Redundancy of Courage, based on East Timor
Derkaderkastan: from the movie Team America: World Police
Double Crossia: a country mentioned in the Three Stooges short You Nazty Spy
Dschinnistan (Djinnistan): in the novel Ardistan and Dschinnistan by Karl Friedrich May

[edit] E
Eastasia: from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Eastern Coalition of Nations: in Star Trek: First Contact, the Eastern Coalition of Nations (ECON) was one of the major powers involved in World War III
Ecuarico: homeland of an exiled dictator in an episode of Gilligan's Island
Elbonia: Eastern European country from the comic strip Dilbert
Eretz: home of a visiting prime minister, Salka Palmir, in an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man ('Eretz' is Hebrew for 'land')
Erewhon (anagram of nowhere): in the novel Erewhon by Samuel Butler
Eurasia: from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

[edit] F
Far Eastern Republic: a nation from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "Commandante"
Federated Peoples' Republic: a nation hostile toward the Kingdom of Bahkan in the Mission: Impossible TV episode "Fool's Gold". Possibly the same as the Federated People's Republic: from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "Time Bomb".
Filemonia: one of the countries resulting of the 1991 collapse of USSR as told in Mortadelo y Filemón: El 35 Aniversario
Findas: country sunk under the waves in The Book of Conquests by Jim Fitzpatrick
Forest Kingdom: from Simon Green's Blue Moon Rising. Ruled by King John.
Freiland: from Freiland by Theodor Hertzka

[edit] G
Gavel: the republic in the animated picture Ghost in the Shell
Gnubia: from television series MacGyver
Gondal: imaginary country from the poems of Brontë sisters
Gondour: an ideal republic imagined by Mark Twain in his short story The Curious Republic of Gondour.
Great Britnia: Formed by hordes of Robo-Britneys after they took over Afghanistan in Justice Squad
Greater Llewellynland: a microstate formed in D. C. Simpson's comic strip Ozy and Millie via secession and named after its founder. This is not a micronation in the strip; it is recognised (dimly) by the President.
Guamania: from the French-Canadian series Dans une Galaxie près de chez vous
Guravia: a country where the first robot president was elected in the Astro Boy animated series
Gzbfernigambia: a kingdom from the movie Such a Little Queen

[edit] H
Herland: in the novel Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Hetland: a kingdom from the movie Such a Little Queen
Hillsdown: duchy in Simon Green's Blue Moon Rising. Ruled by Duke Alaric.

[edit] J
Jumbostan and Unsteadystan: from the world of Donald Duck

[edit] K
Kabulstan: a xenophobic third world military dictatorship in an episode of MacGyver
Kafaristan: from William Rose Benét's children's book The Flying King of Kurio
Kajsa (Casha, Kasha): a sultanate, neighbor to Basenji from the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie
Kamburu: totalitarian desert nation secretly ruled by a fugitive alien, based on Iraq or Libya, in the comic book mini-series JLA: Destiny
Kampong: from the novel The Thirteen-Gun Salute by Patrick O'Brian
Klopstockia: from the W. C. Fields movie Million Dollar Legs
Kreplakistan: Soviet Republic from the Austin Powers movies, likely based of the real Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, now the Republic of Karakalpakstan. ("kreplach" - Eastern European Jewish dish consisting of meat-filled dumplings.)
Kuala Rokat: a far eastern country, from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "The Seal"
Kumrahn: see Qumran
Kurio: from William Rose Benét's children's book The Flying King of Kurio
Kurland: mythical kingdom in the movie A Royal Family (but see Courland)

[edit] L
Libria: a totalitarian state in the movie Equilibrium
Litzenburg: neutral country in the Border Zone computer game
Lividia: mythical kingdom in the movie Greater Than a Crown
Loompaland: a "terrible" country from Roald Dahl's 1964 children's book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It is inhabited by dwarves called Oompa Loompas and is full of extremely dangerous creatures called Snozzwangers, Hornswogglers, Verminous Knids, and wicked Whangdoodles.
Low countries: from Simon Green's Beyond the Blue Moon. Capital city: Haven.
Lower Slobbovia: ice-covered wasteland from the comic strip Li'l Abner
Lukano: a small independent country facing the Mediterranean Sea from Time Crisis 3 video game. It neighbors Astigos, a small, peaceful island in the Mediterranean Sea.

[edit] M
Macaria: utopian country from A Description of the Famous Kingdom of Macaria by Samuel Hartlib
Malicuria: a monarchy run by Emperor Aleister from the episode "April's Fool" of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon TV series. The episode is set on the Malicurian embassy in the USA.
Mandavia: a kingdom in the movie Speed King
Marnsburg: a member of the United Nations hostile to the United States in the Mission: Impossible TV episode "Imitation"
Monica: an anarchist state from the animated series Aeon Flux
Morevana: a kingdom in which fat is prized in the movie The Slim Princess
Moribundia: from Patrick Hamilton's Impromptu in Moribundia
Mortadelonia: one of the countries resulting of the 1991 collapse of USSR as told in Mortadelo y Filemón: El 35 Aniversario

[edit] N
Isle of Naboombu: kingdom of anthropomorphic animals in the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks
New Swissland: Nation southwest of Greenland in the Captain Underpants series. Every person born in this country is given a ridiculous name at birth.
Nivia: from the Photon TV series
Nordenija: republic created by British artist Chris Shade
North Elbonia: A Communist neighbour of Elbonia (see above); loosely based on North Korea.
Nouvelle Atlantide or New Atlantis: a huge, rich, powerful, and very far from peaceful nation in Anatole France's Penguin Island. Similar to the USA

[edit] O
Oceania: from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Opperland: a fictitious country based on the Netherlands where the Dutch language is treated entertainingly, [2]
Oriosa: Tarrant Hawkin's home country in Michael A. Stackpole's series The Dragon Crown War Cycle.
Ostnitz: country from the Border Zone computer game
The Land of Oz: L. Frank Baum's World of Oz novels as well as the novel and play Wicked and its sequels.

[edit] P
Perusalem: land ruled by The Inca of Perusalem in the short satiric play by George Bernard Shaw
Petoria: from the "E. Peterbus Unum" episode of Family Guy
Pianostan: a country once visited by Inspector Gadget where its people remain happy so long as their King remains miserable
Pimlico: self-proclaimed country in the area of London in the movie Passport to Pimlico
Pomerania: a nation in the film Anchors Aweigh. It has a navy which accepts non-Pomeranians. Not to be confused with the real Pomerania, formerly a region of Prussia.

[edit] R
Radiata: Home country in Radiata Stories
Realia: a republic in the Boiling Point video game
La Republica de las Bananas (literally, "banana republic"): from the board game Junta
Riallaro archipelago: from Godfrey Sweven's Riallaro, the Archipelago of Exiles
Rolisica: country in the movie Mothra most likely a disguise of USA. Capital city: New Kirk.

[edit] S
San Glucos: from The Simpsons episode "Sweets and Sour Marge"
San Gordio: a kingdom in the movie The Cowboy Prince
San Pedro: from the Sherlock Holmes story "Wisteria Lodge"
Sercia: a republic in Time Crisis video game
Serena Republic: a small country mentioned in the Metal Gear Acid 2 video game

[edit] T
Tanah Masa: from Karel Čapek's War with the Newts
Taronia: from the movie Thirty Day Princess
Tawaki: from the movie Man of the Moment
Termina: the country in which the Legend Of Zelda: Majora's Mask takes place.
Tirania (also Republic of Tirania): country governed by dictator Bruteztrausen; Spanish secret agents Mortadelo and Filemón helped depose Bruteztrausen and president Rompetechen was then elected.
Tontecarlo: a gambler's paradise in Superlópez comic-books until Superlópez's tourism visit. Clearly based on Montecarlo; "Tonte" refers to Spanish word tonto (=fool).
Trobokistan: former Soviet satellite nation in Totally Spies! TV series

[edit] U
Ünderland: a small duchy bordering Michigan, from The Venture Bros. animated TV series. Formerly ruled by supervillain Baron Ünderbheit, now a democracy under the presidency of Girl Hitler.
Unistat: analogue of the United States of America in the Schrödinger's Cat trilogy of Robert Anton Wilson

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Valaria: a kingdom in the movie The Colonel of the Red Hussars
Valeria: Spanish speaking democracy from Mission: Impossible episode "Wheels"
Valeska: a tropical country from the Three Stooges short Saved by the Belle
Vambria: an Arctic communist dictatorship on the 1990s Disney animated TV series Tale Spin
Vandreka: see Bandrika
Versovia: dictatorship from Australian children's miniseries Eugenie Sandler P.I. from ABC Kids
Volsinia: the country with unknown location in Dr Trifulgas: A Fantastic Tale by Jules Verne

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Yudonia: a country mentioned in the episode "We're Married" from Drake & Josh sitcom
Yukon Confederacy: a country in the novel Fitzpatrick's War by Theodore Judson
Yurp: a poor country depicted in I Am Weasel animated TV series (pun on "Europe")

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Zagorias Federation: Mediterranean country, featured in Time Crisis 3 video game, which invades Astigos, a small island, a territory of the neighbouring nation of Lukano
Zanzibar Land: sole nuclear power in the Metal Gear series of video games

[Pthom]

Okay, THAT was big.

[edgyllama]

Islandia was written a modern mythical continent set in pre world war I.

[Tallymark]

Dinotopia! Fictional large island in which sentient dinosaurs and mammalian megafauna lived in peace with shipwrecked humans.

(of course, James Gurney can get away with anything story-wise, because his art is awesome).