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* In some fairly old ''[[Superman]]'' comics, [[Lex Luthor]] gets marooned on some far-off planet and the people there somehow elect him ruler. That's because he actually saved them, and they rename the planet to "Lexor" in gratitude. He hangs there quite a bit for a while, mostly because it orbits a red sun. As it turns out, he ''likes'' being the good guy (this is the Silver Age mad scientist version), and even gets married. Then it got destroyed in a fight with Superman. He didn't take it well.

* An old issue of ''[[Hsu and Chan]]'' has the title brothers create an MMORPG similar to ''[[Second Life]]'' in which the player lives out lower-middle class life in Tanakapolis. In the game, taxes, the monthly fees to play the game, and other fees are paid by leaving large sacks of money at the foot of two solid gold statues of the brothers and begging that the brothers would not smite you for their own amusement.

* Variant in ''[[Judge Dredd]]'': out in the Cursed Earth, there's a town named Fargoville after the first Chief Judge, Eustace Fargo, and whose inhabitants worship him as a deity.

* In ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]'', Newt names his campaign world "Newtonia".

* In [[Graham McNeill]]'s ''[[Warhammer 40000]] [[Ultramarines (novel)|Ultramarines]]'' novel ''The Killing Ground'', Barbaran renamed the capital of the conquered planet after himself. {{spoiler|After he dies for the massacre he staged, Uriel thinks it quite certain that the capital will be renamed.}}

* In the ''[[Tunnels]]'' series, [[Adventure Archaeologist]] Dr. Burrows, while heroic, has a somewhat alarming tendency to attempt to rename anything he discoveries after himself.

* In the ''[[Warcraft]]'' novel ''[[The War of the Ancients]]'', the night elf [[Capital City]] is renamed Zin-Azshari, or "Glory of Azshara", after their queen Azshara. This was apparently not enough for her, who wanted to rename it "Azshara". Ruins of the city can be found in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' in the region of Azshara (hmm...).

* In ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'', when Cuffy Meigs and his "Friends of the People" take over Project X, they rename its site "Meigsville", the intended capital of their feudal domain. It doesn't last long.

* [[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]: Captain Nemo offers us a variant when he claims ''an entire continent'' for himself, acting like a sovereign:

"Farewell, O sun!" he called. "Disappear, O radiant orb! Retire beneath this open sea, and let six months of night spread their shadows over ''my new domains!"'' }}

* One [[Alternate History]] book, derived from [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story|notes taken during World War II]], suggested that had it been taken and held, St. Petersburg - at that point called Leningrad - and Stalingrad would have been renamed [[Gratuitous German|Hitlerhafen]], to symbolize the Nazi's ultimate victory over Communism and its two Soviet icons.

* In ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'', Vinzer Deling, the [[The Empire|Galbadian]] dictator, has the capital of Deling City named after him.

* A familial example could be found in The Republic of Dave in ''[[Fallout]] 3'', a small ranch owned by a guy named Dave, who took it over from his father Tom, back when it was the Kingdom of Tom. Nonetheless it is actually run on a democracy, with an election that can be rigged so that his son or wife can win, which if they do he'll go off to make a new Republic of Dave.

* With the [[God Save Us From the Queen|old Queen Zeal]] and the [[The Three Wise Men|pesky gurus]] gone, [[The Starscream|Dalton]] was quickly to rename the Kingdom of Zeal to the Kingdom of Dalton. He also captured and modified the Epoch to transforms it into the Aero Dalton Imperial, a flying throne fitting for the new King.

* Rezopolis, from ''[[Gex]]''.

* Brain of ''[[Pinky and The Brain|Pinky and the...]]'' tried it a few times. He gets his own island country in a bid for US foreign aid, naming it Brainania. When he does end up in control of the Earth -- by making a duplicate out of papier-mache and convincing everyone else to go there with free T-shirts -- he renames the original Earth "Brainus", presumably following the pattern of either Venus or Uranus. The new planet, on the other hand, was Chia Earth.

* Even though it's a country, Petoria, named after Peter Griffin of ''[[Family Guy]]'', is only the size of the Griffin's house and front/back yard, with the entire city of Quahog surrounding it, effectively making it the smallest country in the world (surrounded by the smallest state in America, no less). To drive the point home, the national flag has the words "PETORIA" and a crude drawing of Peter on a white background.

** And in a slight variation, when Peter decides to "annex" his neighbor Joe's swimming pool as Petoria's "newest province", he renames it "Joehio".

* Crockerville in ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' TV movie "Abra-Catastrophe."

** There are actually a ''lot'' of cities renamed after Stalin; [[Wikipedia]] [[wikipedia:List of places named after Joseph Stalin|has a list]]

*** A Russian joke:

*** Another variant:

** Truth to be told, Stalin reportedly disliked that personality cult, but [[Magnificent Bastard]] that he was, encouraged it because of its political usefulness.

** After Emperor Alexander I conquered Finland from Sweden, he relocated the capital further east (from Turku to Helsinki) and renamed the main street. Because his rule was seen as an improvement (and then that of his nephew Alexander II even more so), the Finns kept the name.