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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* From DC Comics: [[Qurac|Qu]][[Trope Namer|rac]], home of Cheshire, and a rather unsubtle [[Fictional Counterpart]] to [[
* There's a lot of fictional countries in Disney comics. Most of them are generic [[Banana Republic|Banana Republics]], [[Ruritania|Ruritanias]] etc., but one of the most notable is Brutopia, a stand-in for the Soviet Union that even appears in [[Don Rosa]]'s stories, which otherwise usually stick to real world countries and locations.
** [[Carl Barks]] also created the violent and dangerous country of Unsteadystan, blatantly based on Vietnam. It was engulfed on a civil war after a civil war and one of the first things we get to see is a rebel soldier blowing up America's embassy with grenades.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Ligon]]'' in the series of the same name by [[Kir Bulychev]] is based on [[
* Mixo-Lydia in Angela Thirkell's [[Barsetshire]] novels, is a stand-in for the unpleasant middle-European country of your choice, but mostly Romania. The Mix-Lydian refugees and diplomats have names like "Bronscu."
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