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* ''You Nazty Spy'' - A [[Three Stooges]] short has Moronika, which stands in for Germany in the [[Catch Phrase|''Moronika for Morons!'']]
* Concordia in the [[Cold War]] comedy ''Romanoff and Juliet'', a postage-stamp European nation that has been conquered and liberated so many times that its citizens "are nominally the freest people in the world", and every day is an Independence Day of some sort. Fiercely determined to maintain neutral during the Cold War, the prime minister ended up playing matchmaker between [[Star-Crossed Lovers|the Russian ambassador's son and the American ambassador's daughter]]. Concordia is the ass of the UN; at the UN roll-call, all the nations are called in alphabetical order, with a note on the bottom of the page, "P.S. [[My Friends and Zoidberg|And Concordia]]." The country could be a parody of Tito's Yugoslavia.
* ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)|Harry Potter and
* ''[[Austin Powers]]'' features a nuclear warhead being stolen from the country "Kreplachistan."
* World Grand Prix competitor Rip Clutchgoneski from ''[[Cars|Cars 2]]'' hails from the newly independent "Republic of New Rearendia".
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