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* ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'' seems to take place in contemporary Japan, but the setting has more than enough oddities to count as this. The premise of the series is basically mixing [[MundaneMadeAwesome very normal things turned awesome]] with [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight very weird things turned normal]], causing the characters to have a totally inverted perception of what's supposed to be made a big deal.

* The Elrich setting in ''Wiki/TheWanderersLibrary'' revels in its Cloudcuckoo-ness.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', Canada is depicted as such. It's a world with only one road, square ''everything'', the people's heads flap like garbage can lids, their prime minister is a [[Film/TheWizardOfOz massive green hologram]] ([[spoiler:That's actually [[ItMakesSenseInContext Saddam Hussein]]]]), Nova Scotia is inhabited by "little mushroom people", Quebec (or French Canada as other Canadians call it), is inhabited by ''Creator/CirqueDuSoleil'' performers who are thought of as weird ''even by other Canadians'', they also consider Quebec as Canada's Cloudcuckooland. And then there's a "giant" who routinely terrorizes them, a culture based around toilet humor and eating Kraft Dinner, a military armed with hockey sticks and chainsaws, and the [[UpToEleven most insane royal wedding ceremony ever]]. Needless to say it's so over the top that [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales these episodes are utterly beloved by Canadians]].

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* One of the movements of "Carmina Burana" is "Ego sum abbas Cucaniensis"--"I am the abbot of Cloudcuckooland."

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* ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'' is set in contemporary Japan, but the setting has more than enough oddities to count as this. The premise of the series is basically mixing [[MundaneMadeAweseome very normal things turned awesome]] with [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight very weird things turned normal]], causing the characters to have a totally inverted perception of what's supposed to be made a big deal.

%%* The world of ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}''

* ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'' has a stage called Cloudcuckooland. Despite this, while the stage design is rather weird and random (some believe that it's a dumping ground for all the leftover ideas the devs had after making all the other levels) the [=NPCs=] found there aren't noticeably much stranger than the rest of the insane cast.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' has Gensokyo, basically a nature preserve for all the [[FantasyKitchenSink weird and wonderful things]] the rest of the world doesn't want anymore, and it very much shows. Most notably, when a pair of goddesses decided to move to Gensokyo and bring their human priestess with them, said priestess spent the next few games going completely mad, to the point where "You can't let yourself be held back by common sense!" is almost her BattleCry.

* ''VideoGame/ToyStory3'': Lotso's Garden in Toy Box mode.

* ''Roleplay/TropersTheSeries'' has Tropesburg. Not only are most of the {{Troper}}s wacky, most of the [=NPCs=] are as well, and other wacky figures tend to show up and cause trouble OncePerEpisode.

** The series also contains the [[DreamWorld mindscape]], essentially another plane of existence where one of the [[BigBad more prominent]] antagonists appears to exist.

* This wiki. [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife YOU are crazy for reading it]], and all the crazy stuff on it. Don't deny it now.

** Parnasse, the Confectionery Village. A town literally made of sugar, spice and ice cream. Baking contests are SeriesBussiness there.

* The Dream Weavers World in ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon1998'' follows this trope pretty well. The levels all take place atop floating islands and castles, the dragons give very vague hints and riddles, the enemies all transform in strange and dangerous ways, and attacking jesters distorts the environment. In the game's Reignited treatment, this world also houses most of the more out-there dragon designs.

* The Behin society from ''Literature/{{Kazohinia}}'' fits this trope pretty well. Until you realize they are NotSoDifferent.

* TheInternet. Let's see, {{Internet Jerk}}ss are normal, there are {{Troll}}s regularly, and strange mannerisms abound. It probably says something about how well it fits in when {{Internet Jerk}}ss could be misread as GIFTS;- as in [[GiantSpider Giant Intelligent Friendly Talking Spiders]].

* TheInternet. Let's see, {{GIFT}}s are normal, there are {{Troll}}s regularly, and strange mannerisms abound. It probably says something about how well it fits in when {{GIFT}}s could be misread as GIFTS;- as in [[GiantSpider Giant Intelligent Friendly Talking Spiders]].

At the same time, it's a subversion for the Japanese people themselves, with the Japanese mainstream being very conservative and shunning anything that dares to stray from the norm. They take their strange-to-outsiders traditions (like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadaka_Matsuri Hadaka Matsuri]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C5%8Dnen_Matsuri Honen Matsuri]]) very seriously, and {{Cloudcuckoolander}}s ''within'' Japanese society are ostracized. For example, being into {{cosplay}} during your high school years can cost you any chance of ever going to college, and acting or looking strangely in public will likely cost you your job. And don't you ever show too much emotion in public! Of course, this applies only if MoralGuardians find out it's you. Anonymous Cloudcuckoolanders can't be bashed. And unusual trends that manage to stay around against all odds will eventually "earn" acceptance, and from then on be treated as if they were perfectly normal and things have been this way all the time. Karaoke is a good example. And keep in mind that all of this is unwritten law, but everyone is expected to follow it.

* If Tropesburg, from ''Roleplay/TropersTheSeries'', isn't one of these, then I don't know what is. Not only are most of the {{Troper}}s wacky, most of the [=NPCs=] are as well, and other wacky figures tend to show up and cause trouble pretty much OncePerEpisode.

-->'''Franchise/{{Batman}}:''' I hate this place.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' has "Rock Bottom", which, for lack of a better description, is Bikini Bottom done [[EldritchLocation wrong]]. Full of weird and oddly-speaking people.

** Twilight Sparkle sees Ponyville as this in the pilot episode. She gets better.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' has "Rock Bottom", which, for lack of a better description, is Bikini Bottom done wrong. Full of weird and oddly-speaking people.

** A later episode features "Randomland", a location almost certainly inspired by the previously mentioned Wackyland. The laws of physics don't apply and random creatures roam about. Even getting to this location is completely random.