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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Diablo]]'' does this pretty unabashedly. For example, the Monk's design is a strange mishmash of Russia and China, with some trace elements of India for flavor.
* The ''[[Ace Combat]]'' series takes place in a fictional Earth with fictional geography and nations to avoid [[Mutually Assured Destruction]] rendering combat between modern fighters impossible. Despite this, many nations take significant cues.
** At the most blatantly obvious, the Osean Federation of ''5'' and ''7'' (and an ally in ''Zero'') is a "Federal presidential republic" headed by a President on a continent that shares the name of the country despite not being its sole occupant (Osea). Its army fields soldiers armed with M-16 rifles and M9 pistols while fielding M1 Abrams and M113s, while its air force fields planes like the F-5 and F-15.
** Yuktobania, Erusea and Estovakia are all Russia/the Soviet Union, with MiGs, and Kuznetsov-class aircraft carriers.
** Frequent antagonist Belka is Germany (with ''AC0'' Belka, and later [[The Man Behind the Man|the Grey Men]], as Nazi Germany). It equipment is from ''modern'' Germany, creating odd NATO vs. NATO conflicts.
** Sapin is Spain, with Spanish names for places ("Gran Rugido") and people ("Alberto Lopez").
** In ''[[Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception]]'', the player's country of Aurelia and its antagonist Leasath, both on "South Osea", appear to represent the entirety of South America.
** Emmeria, the player's homeland in ''6'', is, despite the name, a mashup of enough NATO and NATO aligned countries it can't be said to be any single one. It's a former monarchy with British Challenger II tanks, Japanese Type 89 rifles, Cassard-class frigate and various American and European fighters shared with other countries.
** Strangereal's lack of nuclear proliferation gives us a subversion; characters in ''The Belkan War'' and especially ''The Unsung War'' display attitudes about and intentions with nuclear weapons that seem downright bizarre to the player, who has lived in a world with thousands of the things their whole life.
* The building and unit designs for all four nations in the series ''[[Advance Wars]]'' are based on [[World War II]]-era combatants: Orange Star is America, Soviet Russia is Blue Moon, Green Earth is England/Germany, and Yellow Comet is Japan. Interestingly, none of the four nations are villainous. The bad guys, Black Hole, have no earth parallels and are designed to appear off-world or alien.
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