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== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* This could just as easily be called "European Writers Have No Sense Of Scale In North America".
** British ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' [[Fan Fiction]] often has the Winchesters speaking in British slang and claiming that their small Indiana town is 30 minutes away from the Canadian border. Problem is, Great Britain is ''much'' smaller than the United States -- "from Land's End to John o' Groats", the longest distance in the isle, means 874 miles, whereas "coast to coast" in the USA means at least ''2500 miles'' depending on where one is measuring from.<ref>The drive from Jacksonville, [[Florida]] to [[Los Angeles]] along Interstate 10, the shortest coast-to-coast highway, is 2,460 miles; the drive from [[
** RPG writer Graeme Davis once wrote a scenario for the Call of Chtulhu RPG set in the 1930s where an NPC starts in Los Angeles, drives over to San Francisco on an errand, drives back and "spends the rest of the afternoon in her hotel room". (From memory, some specifics may be off.) For reference, [http://local.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=los%20angeles%2C%20ca%20to%20san%20francisco%2C%20ca&mrt=all Los Angeles to San Francisco is roughly a 6-7 hour drive] via modern highways in a modern car (not counting the frequent backups along that route); the drive would have likely been even longer in the '30s.
** A pair of German ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' fans wrote a fic in which Xander and Faith drive from Boston to California in 8 hours...
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* ''[[Harvest Moon]]'' games are apparently set in Europe or America but the characters retain certain Japanese mannerisms such as bowing, a lot of the characters love Japanese foods, and some of the plants are native to Japan.
* ''[[Resident Evil 3 Nemesis]]'''s Raccoon City is a supposed to be a modern, Midwestern, American city, but the size of the streets and presence of extensive back-alleys and shopping arcades are clear evidence that Raccoon was based on a contemporary Japanese city. For reference, many of the streets are blocked by a single, longitudinal car across the road. When's the last time you [Americans] saw a road that narrow, especially in a city of over 100,000 residents? Further games in the series that revisit Raccoon, however, seem to retcon them to the proper width.
** Another example from the series. A memo in ''[[Resident Evil 2
* Almost all the games developed by DICE take place in America, even though the company is Swedish. Justified in ''[[Battlefield: Bad Company]]'', as it is an [[Affectionate Parody]] of American action movies. However ''[[Mirror's Edge|Mirrors Edge]]'' takes place in an unnamed city, in an unnamed country, at a nonspecified point in the future.
* Having been made in the UK, all the cars in ''[[Time Splitters]]: Future Perfect'' have their steering wheels on the right side. However, one of the missions takes place in Russia, where cars should have their steering wheels on the left side.
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** At least most have some sort of link for non-Americans to cast their opinion to their national representatives, since the American legislation threatens some worldwide online businesses, not just American ones, but the chances of non-American opinions getting widely listened in the matter are miniscule.
*** Similar approaches have been taken with British and EU bills similar in nature.
* For [[
* For Italy, it's either "We all live in Rome\Naples" or "We all live in Tuscany". Italy has 60 million people and only less than 3 millions live in either Rome or Naples. While most of the peninsula is mediterranean in nature, lots of cities are located far from the sea and warm weather. And let's not mention how every single region is quite different from the others in culture and traditions.
* In Russian internet, Moscow is often jockingly called "Default city" (in English) for exactly that. Everything outside Moscow is known as "Замкадье" ("Transmkadia"), referring to the MKAD highway encircling Moscow.
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