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* Ulgia for Lebanon in the fourth episode of ''[[Noir]]'', as well as the unnamed Middle-Eastern nation in episode 7. The rest of the series takes place in real-world locations like Paris, Spain, and Russia.
* ''[[Madlax]]'' has a Nafrece (France/Britain hybrid) and Gazth-Sonika (a mixture of Vietnam and the Middle-East) but it's implied to be set in the real world (Japan is mentioned in the early episodes).
* ''[[
** In the third iteration, ''Gatchaman Fighter'', versions of names of existing countries are used, completely forgetting the names used in the original.
* Academy City and the Elizarina Alliance of Independent Nations in ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]''. The former is an independent state in Japan and is the forefront of all science and technology in the [[The Verse|Toaruverse]], while the latter is an alliance of nations which split themselves from Russia.
* The ''[[Gundam]]'' metaverse is all over this trope. ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' has the Sanc Kingdom<ref>Denmark according to the sourcebooks</ref>, ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' has the United Emirates of Orb<ref>somewhere in the neighborhood of Samoa</ref>, and ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' has several, most prominently Azadistan<ref>[[Qurac|somewhere in the Middle East]]</ref>. The kings, however, are ''[[After War Gundam X
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* 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.
* [[Tintin
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[
* The world in the ''[[Ace Combat]]'' universe looks like a scrambled version of the real world, and most of the countries are [[Fictional Counterpart|fictional counterparts]] to real countries, eg Osean Federation=USA, Aurelia=Argentina, Sapin=Spain, Belka=Germany, Wellow=Greenland, Amber=Italy, Delarus=Belarus, Sotoa=Arabia, Kaluga=India, Clavis=Australia, Yuktobania=Russia, etc.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Potsylvania in ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'', a stand-in for the [[Soviet Union]] and other Eastern Bloc countries.
* Thembria in ''[[
* North and South Rhelasia for North and South Korea in ''[[Young Justice (
=== Whole cloth-fictional countries ===
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[
* More ''[[
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* The Duchy of Grand Fenwick from ''[[
* Freedonia & Sylvania in ''[[Duck Soup]]''.
* In the movie ''The Interpreter'', the plot is all about saving the dictator of the fictional African country of Matobo, which could be a stand-in for any sub-Saharan African country. It seems to be like Uganda under Idi Amin.
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[
* ''[[The West Wing]]'' has Qumar, which is a middle-eastern country that is backwards and whose government officials perpetrate acts of terrorism against the United States. So it's pretty much like...
* ''[[Commander in Chief]]'' has the South American country of San Pasquale.
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* The Rogue Isles of ''[[City of Villains]]''.
* ''[[Soul Series|Soulcalibur IV]]'' gives us the fictional country of Wolfkrone, located somewhere in the Holy Roman Empire (present-day Germany) and home to newcomer [[Badass Princess|Hildegard]] [[Lady of War|von]] [[Knight in Shining Armor|Krone]]. Not much of the land has been seen, but it appears to be [[Advanced Ancient Acropolis|quite advanced]] for the late 16th century, considering that the Wolfkrone Monument stage is a carousel complete with animatronic musician-like figures that overlooks a castle and clockwork.
* Gallowmere, the setting of the first ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Maldonia, homeland of Prince Naveen in ''[[The Princess and
* Glacia, frozen homeland of the villains in the 1973/74 ''[[
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