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A [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|fictional]] [[Captain Obvious|country]] in [[Like Reality Unless Noted|an otherwise real-world setting]]. May be a [[Fictional Counterpart]] to a [[Real Life]] country, or may be created whole-cloth as a example of a generic political/religious ideology (e.g. a [[Commie Land]] that is not readily identifiable with any of the various, often mutually-exclusive forms of Communism or any specific Communist/Socialist state), and/or with no direct resemblence to any specific [[Real Life]] country.

May overlap with [[Commie Land]], [[Darkest Africa]], [[Divided States of America]] (if [some of] the seceding states unite into a ''new'' one that is separate from the others and is ''not'' a successor to the original United States), [[United Europe]], [[Lady Land]] (if set in a [[Like Reality Unless Noted|real-world]] setting, and especially if it's founded by the Amazons of [[Greek Mythology]]), [[One Nation Under Copyright]] (in [[Mega Corp]]-dominated settings).

* 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).

* From DC Comics: [[Qurac|Qu]][[Trope Namer|rac]], home of Cheshire, and a rather unsubtle [[Fictional Counterpart]] to [[Iraq]] (pre-[[War On Terror|Iraq War]], obviously), right down to its leader, [[President Evil|President Marlo]], who is an obvious [[Expy]] of Saddam Hussein.

* 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.

* Moronica from [[The Three Stooges]] shorts "You Nazty Spy" and "I'll Never Heil Again"; [[Fictional Counterpart]] to [[Nazi Germany]].

* ''[[The Great Dictator]]'': Tomania, [[Fictional Counterpart]] to [[Nazi Germany]], Bacteria, [[Fictional Counterpart]] to Fascist Italy, and Osterlitch, [[Fictional Counterpart]] of Austria.

* Potsylvania in ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'', a stand-in for the [[Soviet Union]] and other Eastern Bloc countries.

* [[DC Comics]]

** Markovia, where Terra and Geo Force come from.

** The underground country where the vampires who turned Looker come from.

** Themyscira, [[Lady Land|home of the Amazons]].

** Kasnia, a country apparently somewhere in eastern Europe. Over the course of the various series, it starts as a monarchy, briefly becomes a dictatorship which holds the world hostage, undergoes a civil war, a revolution to democracy, and joins the European Union and adopts the Euro as it's currency.

* [[Marvel Comics]]:

** Latveria and Symkaria, home of [[Doctor Doom]] and the Silver Sable, respectively, and neighbour countries with a single shared border; both of them are monarchies that are ruled by the aforementioned characters (via usurping the original dynasty, in Doom's case), and both countries' leaders maintain some measure of cordial relations between their nations.

** Genosha, an island nation with a horrific history of [[Fantastic Racism|anti-mutant discrimination]] that was taken over by [[X-Men]] supervillain Magneto.

* The Duchy of Grand Fenwick from ''[[The Mouse That Roared]]'': despite being founded by a ''British'' Knight, it has never been part of any [[Real Life]] country throughout its history; it's just that ''no one'' could be bothered to recognize a few square miles-wide country... Until they ''accidentally'' hijacked a nuclear device.

* Freedonia & Sylvania in ''[[Duck Soup]]''.

* ''[[24]]'': The African country of Sangala in season 7. There was also an Islamic country that was never named in an earlier season. Jack teams up with an agent from that country (nicknamed "Fauxraqistan" at [[Television Without Pity]].com) for a while.

* ''[[Commander in Chief]]'' has the South American country of San Pasquale.

* ''[[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.