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{{trope}}
A [[Exactly What It Says
[[Sub Trope|Sub Tropes]]:▼
* [[Banana Republic]]
* [[Bulungi]]
* [[Ruritania]]
* [[Qurac]]
* [[
* [[Wutai]]
* [[The Old 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).
▲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).
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===▼
▲{{examples|Examples }}
▲=== [[Fictional Counterpart]] countries ===
▲== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' seems to have Amestris as an analogy for inter-war Germany, with Xing representing Asian countries such as China and Ishbal representing middle-eastern countries.
* 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 ''[[
* The ''[[Gundam]]'' metaverse is all over this trope. ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' has the Sanc Kingdom,<ref>Denmark according to the sourcebooks</ref>
=== [[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
** [[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]] visited a lot of these as well as real-world locations. [[A Nazi
=== [[Film]] ===
* 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.
=== [[Literature]] ===
* ''[[Ligon]]'' in the series of the same name by [[Kir Bulychev]] is based on [[
* Mixo-Lydia in Angela Thirkell's
=== [[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 (
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* ''[[
* More ''[[
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* [[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.
** Wakanda, a strange mixture of high-tech with tribal shields and spears, home of the Black Panther
=== [[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.
=== [[Literature]] ===
* The first of Gordon Korman's ''[[Macdonald Hall]]'' books mentions "Malbonia". The country "Pefkakia" is prominent in ''[[The Twinkie Squad]]'', and it is also mentioned in ''[[A Semester In The Life Of A Garbage Bag]]''.
* In the ''[[Princess Diaries]]'', the queen is from Genovia, which seems to be a stand-in for the real life nation of Andorra.
* ''Chanda's Secrets'' and ''Chanda's Wars'' by Allen Stratton take place in a fictional sub-Saharan African country ravaged by the HIV/AIDS epidemic and civil wars.
=== [[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.
* The fictional 'presidentdom' of Groland in the eponymous satirical news show - mostly a thinly disguised parody of France.
=== [[Newspaper Comics]] ===▼
▲== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* Elbonia from ''[[Dilbert]]'', a country populated by [[The Ditz|ditzes]] (their national bird is the Frisbee) who live in waist-deep mud.
* A ''[[Garfield]]'' strip featured Garfield doing a routine on the fence for a boy scout delegation from the country of Booga-Booga. [[Rule of Funny|Made even funnier]] when he found out the hard way that the only currency in Booga-Booga is 800-pound chariot wheels.
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* 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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